It’s time for another ran­dom muse­ment from the bleak cor­ri­dors that line the coarse blood ves­sels in my

mind.

Recently, I’ve been catch­ing up on the FOX show 24. I used to be a big fan, until the show Lost came into my life. I think I left off at sea­son 5, or maybe 4, but any­way, I’ve been watch­ing sea­son 6, and I seem to notice a re-occurring trend.

If you watch 24, you know that CTU (the Counter Ter­ror­ism Unit) gets a lot of leads. Of course, the lead char­ac­ter Jack Bauer is always the one that fol­lows up on them… bust­ing into hide­outs, doing tac­ti­cal sweeps of ware­houses, and kick­box­ing ter­ror­ists. Who else is going to do it? Well, not all the glory goes to Jack. He is the one, how­ever, that often can live long enough to enjoy the glory. Let me explain…

Jack is often joined by a tac­ti­cal team, which is really com­prised of just a group of 40 dudes dressed in black car­ry­ing big guns. Every time there’s some sort of sweep of a sus­pected ter­ror­ist hide­out, there’s a bomb. As you can prob­a­bly guess, when the bomb blows the place to pieces, the tac teams fol­lows suit. So far, in sea­son 6 of 24, there have been two such explo­sions. Both times Jack sur­vives unharmed. Where do all of these guys come from? Them seem to be com­ing out of no where, and are EVERYWHERE in the city…

Now, I have a few more ques­tions. Does CTU have a cloning facil­ity, and who the hell would ever want to work on a tac­ti­cal team for CTU??? Also, what’s up with those incred­i­bly stu­pid masks they wear (above)? Last time I checked, they don’t stop bullets.

Ughhh, back to watch­ing 24…