Back in the saddle?

DirecTV is doing a series of tv ads in which they get movie stars (or in one case a football star) back into costume and makeup, and electronically re-insert them into scenes from their classic films so they can turn to the camera and pitch DirecTV. The latest one features William Shatner in scenes from Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. When the YouTube version of the ad popped up on startrek, it was suggested that Bill had redubbed lines but not actually shot any new footage. I couldn't tell from watching YouTube what the lip-synching was like. But last night I saw the ad on my HDTV, and I say the lipsynching and the whole performance are too organic to be CGI. If I believed CGI was that good five years ago I'd've believed there was no real Britney Spears, and I still don't believe it's that good. I say Bill got out his old uniform and his old toupee and they both still fit.

"I'm not dead yet"

I'm certain I heard or saw on broadcast news one recent morning that that was the day the Military Commissions Act was to be signed by the President into law, but I haven't heard anything more. Was it just not suffficiently newsworthy that he signed it? Was it not sufficiently newsworthy that he didn't sign it (I really don't think he's so clever or devious, or un-self-serving, but I have entertained the notion that George would walk up to the podium, pick up the pen, then look up at the gathered houses of Congress and go, "Punk'd!" and berate them for spinelessness and betrayal of their trust*)? Or am I all wrong, and the signing date is still nigh? kthx

* Don't mind me, I'm channelling Claudius the God.