More specifically: Treaty of Portsmouth says what? https://en.wikipedia.org/wi…

Sound recording: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Bellicose foreign policy aside (and TR was generally more bellicose when he wasn't actually in power, whether in 1898 or 1914, than when he was in the White House) TR doesn't really have a place in the Republican Party, in part because he and his compatriots were run out of it in 1912.

Well, like much of the late 19th/Early 20th Century America, it's really more about grades of racism: Terrible about imperialism, but relatively tolerant towards black people (inviting Booker T. Washington to the White House and desegregating NY schools on the one hand, refusing to pardon the Brownsville Soldiers and…

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

And indeed, the 60s Klan that rose up again in reaction to the civil rights movement (and was responsible for a lot of the murders of civil rights workers) was pretty much shattered by the same COINTELPRO that, ironically, also targeted the Civil Rights movement. So yeah, the government has made multiple concerted…

I'm imagining Voyager trying to do Space-Bloods and Crips, and it's somehow worse than the Kazon shit.

Alda especially, in part because they also surrounded him with ringers like Ron Silver, Stephen Root and Patricia Richardson. Wheras Smits got Josh and a bunch of anonymous nobodies.

One of the great tributes to Ryan's skill is that they tried to do the exact same thing (Catsuited Superintelligent Spock-like Character that fights with the Captain) on Enterprise, and it just failed utterly.

AGT probably holds up better as a cohesive unit, but I still have mad respect for DS9's ten hour series finale arc for working as amazing as it does.

Breaking: Slate discovers Youtube.

Actually, the Perfect Strangers theme doesn't say "Perfect Strangers" anywhere. Which lets it perfectly sync up with the Enterprise credits far better than the random shots of Baker and Pinchot messing around in Chicago: https://www.youtube.com/wat…

Eh. Beyond showing his adultery as a problem (though Coretta stood by him at the big court moment!), was MLK ever shown to be wrong in Selma? When it came to actual Selma-ing, they made him the Rocky Balboa of Civil Rights leaders.

Wrong Trans Kid Died!

or Bob Dole, who was a senior political correspondent through 2000. Though I wonder if he's too fragile now to make the trip.

Yes, it was one final glorious spin through watching the same damn commercial a half dozen times. Did you know there's a movie about NWA coming out?

I will say, the black team that can't swim / is afraid of water is a trope we've seen over and over on the Original Race too. That is one stereotype they seem to embrace a ton.

So this isn't the one man retelling of All The Kings Men that we've been hoping for?

Definitely the double album thing. FWIW, Innervisions did make their top 100, showing up at #31 surrounded by Horses, Blood on the Tracks, I Never Loved A Man (The Way I Loved You), Moondance, Bridge Over Trouble Water, and Sex Machine. No other Stevie's made it. Outside the Beatles' 5, they had 4 from the Stones and…

Yeah, I don't disagree with ranking either one over the other—they're both excellent. And The White Album shows up at #11, as the worst of the classic Beatles Albums, something I completely agree with.