I was eating a bag of chips today (like most days) and as I read the label on the front of the bag that says, “No Genetically Engineered Ingredients”. I thought to myself, why do foods with no GMOs have labels, but foods with GMOs do not?

The practice of labeling foods that have no GMOs is what’s wrong with this country. If you can change that, you fix the country.

In the absence of great (and canceled) historical dramas like HBO’s Rome and Deadwood, I find myself grasping for a replacement. Something to fill the void until HBO delivers a new period show. Showtime’s The Tudors is my current attempt at filling that vast emptiness, and I’ve so far invested nearly 9 hours watching Jonathan Rhys Meyers play King Henry VIII.

Here’s my review:

Yawwwwwwn.

Henry had like 6 wives and transformed religious power in Europe. Yet after NINE episodes his first wife is . . . still his first wife. It’s like watching history in real time. The other night while watching The Tudors I found myself reading page after page on Wikipedia related to Henry’s reign, and enjoying it far more than the show. I mean behead someone already!

If HBO was producing this I can assure the heads would be rolling every episode.  There should be at least one rack, dagger, poisoned goblet or torch in every other episode. I wish HBO would produce something like The Inquisition, or Elizabeth. Of course Showtime might very well have ruined all the fun to be had in medieval times with their protracted story telling. In that case I beg of HBO to go into the future and produce Asimov’s Foundation series.

But I digress.

My advice - avoid The Tudors like the plague.