Something screwy is going on with our DirectTV. I just put Catherine down for her nap and turned on the TV to get my daily C-Span fix. The wires must be crossed somehow, because C-Span is instead broadcasting the SciFi Channel — a classic episode of “Tales from the Darkside”. When I turned to the real SciFi station, I found that the screen has gone dark.

I find it quite amusing and appropriate that Congress has been supplanted by science fiction. Perhaps the secret alien invasion by the likes of Barney Frank, Maxine Waters and Dennis Kucinich (come on … he looks like would fit right in at a Star Trek convention) has finally moved to the next phase. We are now being fed their dramatized propaganda and soon the leader Zoltar will appear on the screen and let the earthlings know that socialized medicine, a 90% tax bracket for the wealthy and the melting of all weapons to make metal domiciles for the homeless are now the laws of the universe.