Revenge of the Two Completely Unrelated Thoughts

Unrelated thought the first: We have a lot of wedding and/or bridal magazines laying around, probably because Peanut is getting married to somebody. I was amazed at how massive these magazines were until I actually picked up one and flipped through it, thereby discovering that a full 50%-60% of them are advertisements. At first this irritated me, because hey, once that much of your thing is ads, why even put up with the thing, you know? But then it started to make sense: women buy these things for wedding ideas, and an advertisement is just as useful in that task as is an article or Top 100 list. Indeed, most of the articles and features in these magazines are practically glorified ads as it is.

I’m sure the rest of humanity already knew this, but I always get this warm, fuzzy feeling when I arrive at knowledge through independent discovery. Let me have my moment.

Unrelated thought the second: The ending of Watchmen, as presented in the film, is impossible. If we knew Al Qaeda had a walking super-weapon that made nuclear armaments look like kitty cats, then then that weapon went off killing 15-million people (including many millions of Americans) we would not join hands with them in order to face this new threat. We would, uh, probably rain nuclear devastation down on them. Dr. Manhattan’s supposed involvement in obliterating cities around the world should have validated the USSR’s fear that America was an absolute evil that must be destroyed, not disarmed it.

I still think it’s a better ending than “giant squid eats New York”.