TV show theme songs in odd meters

In the quiz show Jeopardy, if the category is "TV show theme songs in odd meters" what's the question for the second answer in the category?

the Truth in Singing Act of 2014

So my first act after I become dictator will be to pass a law requiring all music produced using an Autotune have the pitch corrections parameters encoded into the audio (it will surely only require a few bits per second, easy to add that undetectably). Then people who want to hear what the singer really sounds like will be able to invert the corrections.

the unillustrable ABC

There are lots and lots of ABC books for kids (A is Apple, B is for Bear) ranging from the mundane to the clever. But what about an ABC book where all the words would be difficult or impossible to draw?

I'm still missing a few words, but here's a start

A abstract

B biodegradable

C common, coincidence

D disappear

E evanescent

F foreign

G gone

H hidden

I ineffable (or invisible)

J

K

L lost

M more

N never, nowhere, none

O obvious

P

Q

R reverse, random

S somewhere, sublime

T temporary

U unusual

V virtual, vanish

W why

X

Y

Z zero

It would be cooler if all the words were likely to be in a four year olds vocabulary.
In this version, only "why" and "more" fit that criteria.

The second mideast nuclear bomb

Some of my friends are highly worried by the prospect of Iran developing nuclear weapons. I'm not so worried. Iran, unlike Al-Qaida, Hamas, or Hezbollah (may their names be blotted out) is a real state with a real government. It's a government hostile to Israel, and one that aids our deadliest enemies, but I can imagine that changing. More to the point, it's government that governs cities that contain valuable assets. Which to me means that the logic of deterrence applies. (Some of) the leaders of Iran clearly with Israel harm. But can they use a nuclear weapon on Israel? Where? not on Jerusalem, it's as holy to the Muslims as to us. Haifa? Maybe. But then if so, surely Tehran comes next, and that's too much to the mullahs to lose. They may feel fine funding other people's sons (and daughters) to die. They don't want to die themselves.

And then there's another target — Mecca. Surely the Israeli's have made it known, somehow, that is Israel is ever bombed, the Muslims will lose their holy city, too. Would that be a sufficient deterent, do you think?

I suppose in theory the USA has air defence in Suadi Arabia. I wonder whether they, too, have been warned.

clearly Canadian

My daughter Michal saw some football on TV when we were visiting the local pub. She said, "Look, running hockey!". She should have no problem at all with her immigration interview.

Goodbye MySpace

I've given up on MySpace. Why did I even bother starting? Well, my son was using it and he told me it would be a good way to keep track of his exploits. At first I was hesitant, because it's so clearly aimed at 20 year olds, but Adam told me, quite generously, "The Internet is for everyone". It quickly got annoying. No sooner did I sign up , but I started getting phoney "friend invitations" that were really advertisements for porn sites. But I can ignore spam. Harder to ignore are the advertisements, especially those with motion. How does anyone tolerate it? Maybe the kids tape little squares of opaque paper over the areas where the ads are. Maybe even that i could have lived with. But it's just too slow. (I'm told that MySpace is now the most heavily used site on the net.) What are all those people doing?

I have an awful suspicion. MySpace must be using a huge web farm. Maybe they've adjusted the routing so that undesirable people like me (that is to say, those over 30) get handled by slow servers, so we'll jusy give up and go away. Could it be true?

Superpowers

On Sunday the 20th, I went to an indie rock show for kids and their families, organized by the Bunch Family. The band was The Bicycles, a Toronto band. They were fun, but the opening act was like nothing I had ever seen. It wasn't music, it was something called "trials" bike riding, which I guess I would describe as acrobatic bicycle stunts, like hopping straight up with the bike, or balancing on the top of a triangle, or jumping from one box to another. The rider was Carsinn Wilson, who I knew from my local bicycle store as a mechanic. I had no idea that he could do stuff like that. I had no idea that anyone could do stuff like that, at least not with a bicycle.