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I also watched Elementary, and was pleasantly surprised. It is *of course* not nearly as good as BBC's Sherlock... I would say it's not even a particularly good version of Sherlock Holmes. But if you figure on that and just watch it as a detective/crime drama, it's better and smarter than most on American TV these days--not that this is saying much. Jonny Lee Miller and Lucy Liu both did a pretty good job, the way she's setup is interesting, at least.

Got around to watching Last Resort last night and really enjoyed it! For anybody who's ever enjoyed a Tom Clancy novel, the pilot at least is a home run! Great production values and VFX, tense, well acted (especially Andre Braugher, of course!) But I'm very worried where it goes from here... it's really to bad it's a show on a regular broadcast network instead of a miniseries (or regular British series) because I'm not at all convinced there's a full season's content here--and I'm sure people are already working on how to stretch it to "6 seasons and a movie!". Didn't realize it's Shawn Ryan (The Shield and, more relevantly: The Unit), so that's a plus too.

I don't see anything positive in televangelist millionaire's megachurches. A dear loved one was suckered into Jim Baker, Jimmy Swaggert and Oral Roberts fucking SCAMS. It might be different if any actually taught the message of Jesus--gut then they wouldn't have multi-million dollar empires and make all their money being seen to pray.

Ok, so in your accounting of the things we can and can't discuss about Mitt because they're too mean, are we allowed to discuss that he was a 31 year old member of a church that would not allow African Americans?

Texts From Mitt are a thing now...

Speaking of...

I figured the photo above was an appropriate reply to the continued argument that somehow somebody's magical invisible friend in the sky created the universe should be taught as science... but this pic does it pretty well too:

Young politicians in love...

--Feel free to delete this, posted it then decided it went better in another thread... ;o)

Very relevant to the discussion we've been having (buried in the Paul Ryan/AARP thread)... Koppel's last line, and kiss... FUCKING GOLD.

Ever since the nature of Lieberman running for both his Senate seat and higher office simultaneously were pointed out I've always felt it is the height of selfishness and a good indicator the person in question deserves neither position!

I think you should look up the definition of satire in a dictionary. Weekend update/political satire are about all that SNL is still good at!

I think that the Volt is interesting technology and I'll continue to watch closely to see where it goes--and am *very* glad it exists. The numbers cited above are absolute BS because they take the development costs and divide them by the current number sold, which is simply wrong. Cadillac will be doing a version based on the second-gen drivetrain (further diluting the dev. costs...) which interests me, and for all it's detractors GM has actually done quite a bit better than Fisker has with the Karma and even Nissan with the Leaf. Yes, the Volt has some problems but they are to be expected in such a revolutionary technology and should be expected by early adopters. It gets better. They beat Toyata to having a plug-in hybrid by years, after all! The current hands-down winner for best electric car is clearly the Tesla S, but they're not yet shipping in numbers and are high-end price wise--but also performance wise. They compare quite nicely to a Porsche Panamera S for price, performance, and features.

Everybody else who really believes the country needs Elizabeth Warren in the senate should join me in donating, even $5!

I hope some museum somewhere is getting one of these 747s to display, with perhaps a replica shuttle on top? Maybe an outdoor display...

When Walking Dead started with a fucking love triangle I just couldn't keep watching--end of the world as we know it so let's spend a lot of time on fucking soap-opera drama and people too stupid to live... I was interested in AHS because I always thought Dylan McDermott was sexy as hell on The Practice... but never saw a single episode. Not otherwise my kind of show, I guess...

Loved the commentary South Park made on her... here's the creators talking about her directly: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHMIBR-_v4Q&feature=player_detailpage

I was under the impression it had been declined for the App Store in the past. It's not just Google, Bing also has pretty good maps/turn by turn directions, last I used it... I *really* prefer not needing anybody's permission to run something on *my* phone...

I'm entirely against regulating the content in any way, other than perhaps requiring a huge flashing fucking EDITORIAL Chyron across the screen when the show in question on a "News" channel is not actually fact-based... What I'm suggesting is attacking it from the business side. In the America we all grew up in one senile old coot (a foreign-born one at that) would never be allowed to own a major network, local broadcast stations, many cable networks, (formerly) a chief way of distributing cable (DirectTV), a major film studio, and several newspapers in a single media market... let alone almost all of the markets!

Fingers crossed! I hope at some point The President, or Clinton initiates a massive campaign to encourage people to vote "straight ticket Democrat" to get rid of this horribly obstructionist congress and the state Republicans behind evil shit like the voter ID laws!

Awesome!!! I'm surprised they "went there" with Mormonism (magic underpants and 6 wives), very daring! And here's a quote from The Simpsons I was just reminded of yesterday:

For donations to a charitable cause, I'd agree with you. For donations to the fucking Mormon batshit-crazy cult, I wholeheartedly disagree. Money that's used primarily to brainwash others but has also been used to directly and negatively impact all of us, with Proposition 8. And it's of course shockingly transparent that it's just a stunt, of course he'll amend as soon as nobody is looking!

First, hitoall, HOW DARE YOU state I own an Apple product!!! Second, you're poking at exactly the problem. This batch of Republicans want to run the country in an Ayn Rand-based belief that if you give the rich and the corporations everything they want, and don't regulate them, then everything for everybody will be rainbows and puppies. How people are still duped into this point of view after what Wall Street (AKA people exactly like Romney) has done to the economy AGAIN is beyond my understanding. Democrats believe that idealism belongs in government. It should aspire and even work to create a more perfect union, and there is a fair amount of evidence that even the most controversial aspects--income redistribution to narrow the gap between the rich and poor--does create a robust and diverse economy better for EVERYBODY. Liberals, like myself, believe that corporations, especially ones the size of Apple, should also work towards bettering people's lives, at the very least the lives of ALL their workers, but our current Wall-Street centric system actively opposes this ideal.

Oh yeah, I didn't seen anything objectionable in that account. The media holding somebody accountable and pointing out inconsistencies in their claims is journalism, and it's been sorely missed! And it's about fucking time seniors realize they're the majority of Romney's 47% of tax scoffing deadbeats and Ryan especially has Social Security and Medicare targeted for destruction!