Drunk, Crazy, On Drugs? Want to Work for CBS? CBS now has openings for network executives with severe mental problems and drug addictions. Have no sense of reality. Pick shows based on throwing darts at your assistants.

At least that’s the best explanation I have for this lineup.

CBS made some very tentative moves towards edgier fare today, unveiling a fall schedule that includes a musical film noir, a detective who happens to be a very old vampire, suburban swingers and a sprawling prime time soap about a powerful Latino family in South Florida.

“For those of you who accuse CBS of being too conservative, you will feel differently when you see the shows we have lined up,” said Leslie Moonves, chairman of CBS Corp.

Of course your audiences is conservative, ‘Leslie’ but your choices are still conservative– just conservative and insane. A musical film noir or a Latino soap isn’t incredibly pushing the boundaries of TV. It’s just being stupid.

Perhaps the biggest CBS gamble is “Viva Laughlin” - an American version of “Viva Blackpool,” a dark and delightfully quirky British series. Set in a seedy casino town, the original mixed elements of the classic film noir with satire and big musical production numbers in which characters would suddenly burst out singing such pop songs as Nancy Sinatra’s “These Boots Are Made For Walking.”

It will be interesting to see how closely the American edition - produced by actor Hugh Jackman (who will occasionally co-star) and veteran TV writer Bob Lowry (Showtime’s “Huff”) - hews to the original concept and style.

Like I said drugged and crazy. Seriously, first of all stop ordering British non-reality TV show remakes. Only one of them has ever worked and that’s The Office.. and it was a long shot too driven by an ongoing romance.

Secondly stop ordering the kind of British TV shows that nobody in their right mind would watch. Certainly not CBS audiences. Have you learned nothing from One Foot in the Grave with Bill Cosby, CBS?

This will go over on the CBS audience about as well as Cop Rock did on ABC.

“Cane,” a big ensemble drama about the external rivalries and internal struggles of a Cuban-American family that has built a very successful rum and sugar business. Jimmy Smits stars as the adopted son of the family’s patriarch (Hector Elizondo) and the cast also includes Nestor Carbonell (”Lost”), Broadway and film star Rita Moreno and Polly Walker (”Rome”).

Por se que cancellito in 3 months. This is basically WB’s Mississippi with Cubans. Why that seemed like a better idea… I have no idea. Running soaps in prime time is risky at best. Running family based soaps is an act of sheer desperation. I know CBS is gambling on the latino audience but Univision is going to do telenovelas better than a bunch of white guys at CBS. Just give it up.

“Moonlight,” which revolves around the “life” of undead detective Mick St. John who tries to help the living instead of snacking on them. The other vampires are not amused.

What if Angel and Forever Knight had really sucked? Well they might have been something like this.

“The Big Bang Theory,” which will join the network’s Monday block of half-hour sitcoms. Created by Chuck Lorre (”Two And A Half Men”), the show feels like a riff on “Beauty and the Geek,” the CW reality series, as a group of smart but socially challenged guys get dating lessons from a new neighbor played by Kaley Cuoco (”8 Simple Rules”). Johnny Galecki (”Roseanne”) is the lead geek.

Canceled in two weeks. What are you people even thinking? This show’s formula is unbalanced and it has no audience on CBS. It’s Mork and Mindy meets Freaks and Geeks. Terrible, terrible idea.

Another surprise was the absence of a series called “Babylon Fields.” The drama - in which a small town has to battle zombies - had generated as much advance buzz as any show under consideration by the major networks and was considered a sure thing for the fall lineup. (CBS sources said today that the series might resurface as a mid-season offering.)

Damn well better, since it’s the only interesting series in the mix– but I guess CBS panicked because of Jericho’s failure (something the network itself caused with an extended hiatus) and so we get Moonlight instead.

CBS will also have another new and edgy drama to throw into the winter mix. “Swingtown” is set in 1970s suburbia where the sexual revolution is taking hold and couples are starting to experiment in the changing social climate. Included in the large cast are Molly Parker (”Deadwood”), Grant Snow (”Melrose Place”), Lana Parrilla (”Boomtown”) and Josh Hopkins (”Brothers & Sisters”).

In other words American Dreams meets Desperate Housewives meets The Young and the Restless. No this won’t survive either. Nostaglia shows don’t tend to.

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Okay let’s see now.

Collaborating with the PRC Dictatorship to censor information to China in order to make money. Check.

Eavesdropping on your conversations in order to sell you ads. Check.

Eavesdropping on gamers to sell you ads. Check.

Running an increasingly useless search engine cluttered with bad results. Check.

Doing nothing to improve search results while instead changing around the interface for no good reason. Check.

Buying DoubleClick (itself evil) to better track you. Check.

Now the mere mention of the name of DoubleClick all along was enough to set the hearts of EFF types and privacy advocates trembling. DoubleClick’s terrifying database added to Google– which tracks your search results, tracks your emails and does its best to track you– is the kind of unnerving thing that quickly leads to speculation about Orwellian nightmares and bedwetting episodes involving people from the Google Campus planting microchips in your brain (they’d be colorfully Google branded microchips of course and would allow you to access Gmail just by wrinkling your nose like Samantha on Bewitched) but the basic reality of it, minus the paranoia is that Google is now best positioned to create a wide range snapshot of hundreds of millions of internet browsers and combine data from their browsing, shopping, email and even voice chatting habits into one mega-database that could be everything any futuristic dictator or marketer could possibly want.

Unsettling no?

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The History Channel will be running a promotional \ history show on Star Wars titled, Star Wars The Legacy Revealed in a two hour special. You know the sort of thing Star Trek was doing endlessly. This will of course contain interviews with people involved in the franchise, as well as completely irrelevant people who want to get on TV.

Nancy Pelosi, Democratic House Majority Leader leads the list of people embarrassing themselves by appearing in this. Now granted this is a list that includes Newt Gingrich, but at least Gingrich isn’t doing this while being a Majority Leader. It’s pretty sad when the House Majority Leader goes straight from kowtowing to a brutal dictator to desperately pimping for George Lucas in the hopes that at least Star Wars fans will like her and help raise the miserable congressional approval rating.

Consider this shameless quote from her.

Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi :
“The legacy of George Lucas fits very comfortably among the classics of all time, whether ancient or modern. …the genius [who took] a story told over and over again in history, in the Bible, in fairy tales, now in outer space.”

In other words George Lucas is a derivative genius and must we compare Star Wars to the Bible of all things? And where exactly in the Bible was Boba Fett and Lando Carlissian. I must have missed them.

So Blizzard has made a somewhat dubious move pushing back Galaxy of Starcraft and instead announcing Starcraft II. Now Blizzard has pretty much a built in fanbase of millions and no doubt Blizzard didn’t want to risk a premature exodus from World of Warcraft– but what they should have learned from Ultima Online and EverQuest and now Second Life– is that you can’t ride the horse forever. Sooner or later the players get bored and something better comes along. WOW is already losing gamers to Runescape and to the rebooted Anarchy Online. The tide will break and WOW will just be another stupid game people won’t believe they wasted so much time on. (See Sims, The.)

I was never a huge fan of Starcraft in the first place but it has been enormously popular– especially in South Korea– where people will sell their sisters for another hour of gaming and with 3 Warcraft games (2 too many) and two Diablo games– I suppose a second Starcraft is only fair and inevitable.

That said I am basically underwhelmed. In the words of Lisa Simpson. Meh. Now bring on Crysis.

It seems that all it takes for a candidate to win progressive and truther hearts these days is to apologize for the terrorists and blame the whole thing on America. Ron Paul has developed an aggressive online cult dedicated to preaching his glory and trying to present Ron Paul as a scholar and a constitutionalist.

The basic reality is that Ron Paul is a kook and a racist. Consider Ron Paul’s comments about black people. (Ron Paul black people)

Under the headline of “Terrorist Update,” for instance, Ron Paul reported on gang crime in Los Angeles and commented, “If you have ever been robbed by a black teen-aged male, you know how unbelievably fleet-footed they can be.”

Paul, writing in his independent political newsletter in 1992, reported about unspecified surveys of blacks.

“Opinion polls consistently show that only about 5 percent of blacks have sensible political opinions, i.e. support the free market, individual liberty and the end of welfare and affirmative action,”Paul wrote.

Paul continued that politically sensible blacks are outnumbered “as decent people.” Citing reports that 85 percent of all black men in the District of Columbia are arrested, Paul wrote:

“Given the inefficiencies of what D.C. laughingly calls the `criminal justice system,’ I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal,” Paul said.

Paul also wrote that although “we are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational. Black men commit murders, rapes, robberies, muggings and burglaries all out of proportion to their numbers.”

None of this is surprising because the real Ron Paul is a small time and small minded kook and bigot. He isn’t this country’s savior– as his followers like to claim. He’s another kook who got elected and hung on through being in a safe Republican district where no Democrat can hope to win.

Writing in the same 1992 edition, Paul expressed the popular idea that government should lower the age at which accused juvenile criminals can be prosecuted as adults.

He added, “We don’t think a child of 13 should be held responsible as a man of 23. That’s true for most people, but black males age 13 who have been raised on the streets and who have joined criminal gangs are as big, strong, tough, scary and culpable as any adult and should be treated as such.”

Paul also asserted that “complex embezzling” is conducted exclusively by non-blacks.

Don’t think that Ron Paul only hates black people. He’s racist toward Asian-Americans too.

What else do we need to know about the political establishment than that it refuses to discuss the crimes that terrify Americans on grounds that doing so is racist? Why isn’t that true of complex embezzling, which is 100 percent white and Asian?” he wrote.

And it’s not just African-Americans and Asians for Ron Paul, he’s also got a thing for the Jews.

In later newsletters, Paul aimed criticism at the Israeli government’s U.S. lobbying efforts and reported allegations that President Clinton used cocaine and fathered illegitimate children.

Stating that lobbying groups who seek special favors and handouts are evil, Paul wrote, “By far the most powerful lobby in Washington of the bad sort is the Israeli government” and that the goal of the Zionist movement is to stifle criticism.

So in other words in Ron Paul’s world– the US was responsible for 9/11, Black kids should be treated as adults in criminal cases, Asians are embezzling America and the Jews control D.C.

Vote racist Ron Paul for Fuhrer!

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