No LJ-Cut. From today's Washington Post. If ever there were an extension of the "Southern Strategy," this would be it.

GOP Fliers Apparently Were Part Of Strategy
Md. Tactics Similar To Ones in 2002

By Matthew Mosk and Avis Thomas-Lester
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, November 13, 2006; B01The six Trailways motorcoaches draped in Ehrlich ( Read more... )

I'm all for Democrats taking control of the Senate (yay for Jim Webb), but damnit WJLA I don't need loud, emergency-broadcast-system-esque beeping coupled with a screen-cramping scroll encroaching on the mid-season finale of Lost (twice). You smartly recognized that interrupting Lost would have been far more annoying and ire-raising, but a simple ( Read more... )

( 'Brothers & Sisters' )

Thanks K.

I've been asked to make a public entry for reasons that I no longer remember. Something to do with non-LJ friends wanting to read something I write. Hence, the once-in-a-blue-moon public post that may not have anything to do with TV ( Read more... )

Writing an opinion on 20 Y.O. is proving to be more difficult than I thought it would be. While it's still a work in progress, I took a little detour and, in New Math form, have given you the essence of 20 Y.O. using Janet's discography. Enjoy ( Read more... )

Augusten Burroughs has a unique talent of mining comedy from personal tragedy. In his first two memoirs, Running With Scissors and Dry, he turns chemical dependency, childhood abandonment, and rape into something laughable, aptly creating for himself a niche within the black comedy subgenre. With Sellevision, he steps away from personal ( Read more... )

It's the most wonderful time of the year: the network upfronts!

( The 2006-2007 Network TV Lineups )

This is just an excerpt from a longer, semi-unrelated entry from back in November. I'm making this post because I want to make it a memory.

Confessions on a Dance Floor: Madonna takes the idea I espouse for lesser pop artists ("Rock the dance floor as violently as possible.") and does just that. She taps into her inner Kylie Minogue and eschews ( Read more... )

Jesus was a zombie.