Big time fun TV on Saturday was watching the DNC rules committee talk about rules they made up, enforced, and now were talking about changing again. I'm thinking this will make a whole lot of people hate politics all over again.

Procedural politics is, pretty much, the most boring thing you can watch. Except, possibly, the blather that went between talking heads as the committee closed its doors for a while.

At stake is...what again? Oh yeah, a couple of states moved up their primaries illegally (primaries and caucuses are run by the parties, not the government), had the vote anyway, and now we have this "theater" going on. No one would care if the nomination was all sewed up, but it isn't, so they're fighting about what to do with the voters (or, more importantly, the delegates) from Michigan and Florida.

Rules. We have rules for this kind of thing. Of course, rules are meant to be broken, changed, mutilated and then foisted upon the unsuspecting public--most of whom never voted or cared about the rules in the first place.

I heard voters in these states shouldn't be "punished" because the states' respective Democratic parties broke the rules. In other words, if someone breaks rules, but you didn't break the big rule (even if your action caused the breaking the rules), then you should be rewarded?

Pretty sure they call this being an "accessory" in the rules about real important crimes like murder and burglary. But this is politics, so nothing is really a rule. All is changeable. Remember how we've had campaign reform about how money can go in and out of campaigns? Yeah, they keep changing those rules, and, somehow, there's always a way to get around them.

It took me about five episodes during this last season of "Battlestar Galactica" to realize you can watch new episodes after they've aired a couple of different ways. In other words, I don't have to tape it on the VCR, I've got easier alternatives. I can watch it On Demand (for free) on my cable system. Or I can watch it online at scifi.com. These were the established rules. They advertised this during the shows. After each episode aired, it was instantly available. I spent a couple of Friday nights (okay, Saturday mornings) watching the new episode this way after being out at a rock show earlier in the evening. Friday night, you see, is rock night. That's the rules.

But this week the rules changed. I purposely didn't tape the episode because these rules were established and easy to follow. However, at midnight on Friday, the new episode was not available in the previously described ways. And Saturday? Also, no dice.

They changed the rules and no one told anyone. My vote doesn't count!

Luckily they are rerunning the new episode tonight at 9:30. I'm gonna tape it this time, just in case the rules change again.

After the mayor announced a rule change to effectively double the starting salary of a new cop in Albuquerque, lots of people who previously never thought of being a rule crazy cop signed up for "service."

It's summer crackdown time and this is why we need more cops! They are nice enough to advertise on the TV and tell us what they'll be pulling cars over for (or just stopping all the traffic and checking from car to car) during the heat of summer. Not the rules most of us envision when we think of as cops duties (burglary, car theft, murder, assault), but rules that involve a car. And no, not speeding or running red lights (we have Big Brother cameras for that stuff--and those computers are rather efficient in handing out tickets).

It's all about seat belts. Using a hand-held phone while driving. Cruising. Having the car stereo too loud. Child-seats. Insurance. And, of course, the old standby, DWI. I'm surprised they aren't ticketing us for whistling at girls in short shorts (or is that cruising?). Have a fun summer, don't drive anywhere, and remember to contribute your tax money to the city, because we've got a deficit coming because of these new cop prices.

Prices for everything is going up these days.

I guess that's the new rule.

Matt Worley is better about following rules he agrees with.