Brains Get No Respect

Power out in Maryland, fires in Colorado, drought here (again) and hardcore Islamists in charge in Egypt and Mali.  What to do?  For me, the big decision is whether to press on with the second season of Lexx.  I'd grown rather fond of the Divine Predecessors:

but now that they've been squished, eaten, and blow'd up, I'm wondering if there is any reason to go forward.

P.S. Ever noticed that there is now a sort of standard brain accent?  It's a lot like a ghost accent with the groaning replaced by bombast.