Through this series, you will gain no insight and walk away with little or no understanding of public policy. Today's topic is currently writ large across the lower thirds of the 24-hour news world: sequestration.
You've probably heard the time bandied about incessantly over the last few days, and may have wondered, just what is sequestration? At last, the truth can be revealed.
Sequestration is the result of the frustration that fans of the classic NBC submarine show seaQuest DSV experienced when their favorite program was various re-engineered, re-tooled, re-jiggered, and eventually cancelled in a startling display of network interference and overall TV weirdness that left viewers confused, angry, and willing to accept massive gaps in the show's timeline in exchange for the impossibly cool Michael Ironside being cast as the new captain in season 3 because of his uncanny ability to believably deliver lines like this with conviction. Eventually, the terms seaQuest and frustration combined to form our modern word sequestration.
Feeling seaQuest-trated? Check out the opening credits from the first year, and dream of better days.
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