CBS' "Battle Creek" is a WINNER!

Battle Creek, a new show from X-Files & Breaking Bad alum Vince Gilligan was awesome in its Sunday Night, 10 PM debut on CBS. It's somewhat like True Detective if it had an occasional tryst in Brooklyn Nine Nine's Evidence Room. A smart dramedy in much the same flavor as Rescue Me but with more Odd Couple mixed in as opposed to the naughty bits. Dean Winters, formerly of Rescue Me and well known as the Mayhem from that insurance commercial, is brilliant as Russ Agnew, the veteran grizzled detective paired with an extremely dapper, somewhat anal retentive Josh Duhamel as Milt Chamberlain, an FBI outcast forced to run an office in the title town, Battle Creek, Michigan. Clearly, the writers gave a lot of thought to the characters' names as well as the smart script in the opener. I predict hitsville for this show, despite it's position on a Sunday. The great thing is that it doesn't have much competition at the 10 O'clock slot.

I Got Yer "Rapture" Right HERE.

Since the advent of gutting and/or closing schools (50 in Chicago alone), underpaying or mass firing of our teachers, I propose we make it a point to at least donate a copy of Neil Degrasse Tyson's Cosmos DVD or Blu-Ray set to every school we can to make sure our children learn the truth about our world and universe to open their eyes from the stupor of being told that the earth is 6000 years old and that "the end is near." That's the coward's way out.

Sure, it's good to be in the here and now, to live life as if it's your last day, but it's utter bullshit to believe the lie that there is a better world once this one we trashed is gone. What's next, 73 virgins as opposed to 72? Our rapture is better than THEIR rapture? Trust me, it's all a crock of shit dipped in ebola. 

We need to fix THIS world as until Virgin Galactic builds a fucking starship, Earth is all we have. So buckle up, pucker up and start sweeping that doorstep. We made our bed, and we gotta lie in it...and I don't mean bearing false witness. Leave that shit to politicians.