See?

I told you.

“If you are going to be in the system, you can’t choose not to go to the doctor for 20 years. You have to go in and be checked and make sure that you are OK.”

Thanks, but no thanks, Edwards. Here’s my favorite:

He noted, for example, that women would be required to have regular mammograms in an effort to find and treat “the first trace of problem.”

And here was me devoutly believing the President of the United States of America has far more important things to worry about than whether or not the machine squishes my boobs the appropriate number of times.

Where are the “get your laws off my body” people when we need them? Voting no to this jackassery, I sincerely hope.

H/t: Ace’s. You’d think I don’t read the news myself any more. Well. Um.

Update: When you’re 75 and suffering from cancer, and your compulsory doctor thinks it’s time to stop the drugs but you prefer to continue chemo, just who do you think is going to get the final word?

Heroes is still pretty bad. If I make it through last season, I’m not sure I can take any more even for Kristen Bell.

In whose head was it a good idea to try to mix “traits” that could plausibly, however improbably, be explained by genetics with the clearly paranormal and outright fantasy? Spontaneous regeneration, telekinesis, and empathic mind reading/control are within the limits of plausibility. Multiple-personality disorder is highly uninteresting as a “heroic” trait when it exists in reality and they didn’t even bother to make her/them good guys at all. Peter’s absorbing the traits of whoever he’s around is completely implausible in the genetic explanation, and Sylar’s being able to absorb them by … looking at? eating? dissecting? their brains is just a dumb excuse for the macabre.

Masi Oka, though, is fabulous and multi-talented: He was a digital artist at Industrial Light and Magic. Wow. Say what I will about the Lucas films that shall not be named, there were some talented people in the effects department.