There was a real turd of a TV movie made in 2003 "based on" the Riverworld novels.

I have read all the novels, so I didn't come to the movie from zero. But I have to believe if I had come to the movie with no knowledge or expectations, I still would have thought it sucked. And the movie was, in reality, the pilot for a series.

But casting all that aside, you would need 2 or 3 movies just to do justice to To Your Scattered Bodies Go, much less the rest of the series. And can you really believe they would make the first movie without putting the riverboat(s) into it?

I would really love a series of well-made movies about the Riverworld. But the odds of that happening are so minuscule, I would prefer that it just be left alone.

Can't his eyes be transplanted?

Can't she get his eyes?

I have no idea what considerations limit eye transplants. But I know that they happen. My ex-wife worked in organ procurement, and there is a Lion's Eye Bank.

Giving the woman the man's eyes seems like the perfect solution.

I thought I posted this several hours ago, but it seems never to have shown up.

I made my once-every-couple-of-months venture in to Tennis Land. And, as usual, the journey was a doozy.

This whole thing must be completely made up.

The brother is 23, and trying to get his life together. She doesn't say he is in school. She stayed with him for two months. He refers to the situation as a "summer vacation" to the father.

This doesn't add up. The brother hasn't got his life together, but he takes a two month summer vacation? Dang, I wish I had the resources to do that.

Where did the sister sleep? Did she have her own room? Did she sleep in her brother's room? Did she sleep on the couch for two months? If so, how did the roommate feel about that?

And what was the older sister doing for those two months? Partying all day? Visiting museums? Working on someone's political campaign?

And then brother dear gets pissed when she sleeps with his roommate. Not because she slept with him, but because she "broke a promise." Is this the first time she ever broke a promise to him? Hard to believe that. My sisters and I had a pretty good relationship, better than most siblings I knew. And there were innumerable broken promises.

The only way I even slightly believe this is real is if he brother was hoping to sleep with the roommate himself. And by sleeping with the roommate, the sister made it harder for the brother to score.

Not that I believe that either. But it is less unbelievable than the story she tells on the face of it.

I think Tennis got duped on this one. And whether he did or not, he gives credence to the brother's reaction. Which shows Tennis's typical naivete.

OOH OOH!! Everybody write to Cary Tennis! His advice will either be totally irrelevant, or horribly wrong!!

Warren supported Proposition 8. Proposition 8 passed. Warren gets to give the Invocation at the Inauguration.

This looks like a reward for Warren. This seems like a very stupid decision.

I don't know who picked Warren. Maybe it was the Congress, and not Obama. But I find it hard to believe that he would have been picked if Obama had objected. So I believe that Obama must not have objected.

This is not the message Obama should be sending. Yes, there should be some healing and some uniting. But after eight years of the Republicans running roughshod over the country, there needs to be some limits to how soon and how far Obama bends over for the extremist evangelical wing of the Republican party.

The main thing the Constitution seeks to accomplish is to protect the minority from the will of the majority, when the majority is trying to use its superiority in numbers to oppress the minority.

In reality this celebration of "the will of the people" is hatred of the Constitution.

It is important to keep this in our minds and in our voices when evil people use this argument to justify oppression.

How do you define "democracy"?

When the majority gangs up on an oppressed minority, in order to strip them of their rights, and oppress them further, that is technically "democracy," I guess. But it flies in the face of what America is supposed to be about, and what the Constitution is designed to do.

If the residents of a particular state voted to strip rights from an ethnic minority, would that also be "democracy"? Do you think expressing an objection to that outcome would be inappropriate or hypocritical?

What happened in California was not fair. It was, according to you, a free, fair public referendum by a clear majority of California voters holding that legally, marriage must be between a man and a woman. But what is was actually was the majority exercising its strength in numbers to oppress the minority.

This violates the spirit of the Constitution, and the spirit of America. Really, you should try and learn something about the realities of this nation before you make such statements.

Is the woman actually only semi-literate? Or is this some new fad? Is the inability to write and spell correctly evidence of street cred?

Call me crazy, but if I am going to have someone writing for me or about me, I want that person to use the language correctly.

I couldn't read that crap. Once I got to "yamaka" I stopped.

Especially if he says it during an interview on Fox.