Yeah, but Hamilton's musical actually made it to Broadway.

In other news, it's just terrible how excited the American people were that time Mussolini and his Mistress were strung up by Italian partisans, or Hitler shot himself in his bunker. The deaths of monsters must only be reacted to with the most polite sensitivities at all times.

People talk about Libya as though there isn't an example of a deranged leader trying to squash a popular uprising through force just a few countries over. The alternative to Libya isn't dandelions, it's Syria.

I mean, the stench of having someone install a POTUS from the legislature ten immediately get appointed Sec of State pretty much guaranteed John Q. Adams would be a 1 term President from the word go. Now THAT would be an interesting aftermath.

What's really sad about Turner Field is that, courtesy of the Olympics, Atlanta avoided the public-financing New Ballpark boom of the 1990s: Unlike almost all the other new ballparks built around then, Atlanta and Fulton County didn't spend a time on the Ted: It was built courtesy of NBC, Coca-Cola, Budweiser, etc.…

Although getting Southerners to actually spend on infrastructure improvements (actual ones, not just Stadiums, which were entirely handled by ACOG) counts as a plus in my book. The history of post-Olympics Atlanta is not exactly fraught with great public works achievements or metropolitan unity.

I mean, the thing is that couple billion $$ was from NBC, Coca-Cola, and other sponsors. So really, those billions were going to be spent one way or another, and the Olympics were a better use of it than another Law & Order spinoff.

I've been reading Woodward and Bernstein's "The Final Days" and one of the nuggets is that Buchanan just flat out told Nixon to burn the tapes, even after the independent counsel and Watergate Committee had found out about them. Yeah, it's blatant obstruction of justice and destruction of evidence, but "The Presidency…

George Will will always be right when there is a Ken Burns camera trained on him, and wrong whenever there isn't.

But that was the most fun part!

Also, hard to fit Black Guy who isn't a straight up comedian, straight up action hero, or Denzel/Will Smith into a lot of roles.

God, that's like the height of "Interpretive Dance" Oscars: We must use tacky, d-grade Broadway production numbers to illustrate the entire plot of the movie, instead of just letting the band play an amazing 60s throwback power-pop song. That's the worst Oscars musical number I've ever seen… and I've seen Proud Mary.

I'm really, really, really glad I got to see them live a few years ago, even if Soul Asylum (really, one guy from Soul Asylum and a bunch of 'some dudes') took up half the bill.

Sorry, but the wonder that is Bokeem Woodbine's Mike Milligan totally deserves the Supporting Actor in a Miniseries Emmy.

Joe Biden could play Adam Schiff in his sleep.

Yeah. Rewatching it lately, it's total fan-fic prequel pandering, Sometimes that's good (Observer Effect!) sometimes that's OK (The Great Vulcan Retcon!) Sometimes that's meh (Spiner and his baby Khans!) and sometimes that's terrible (The Great Klingon Forehead Retcon!) but at least it more or less knows what it is…

I kind of love the idea that Helmsman Adam Scott and O'Brien had a Rosencrantz and Gildenstern style adventure elsewhere in the bowels of the Enterprise while First Contact was playing out.

Plus the fact that when Alexander shows up on DS9, he says Worf hasn't seen him or spoken to him in 5 years, which I prefer to mean that he gave him the silent treatment for the last two years of TNG, and then didn't even bother finding him when the Enterprise crashed in Generations.

Worth pointing out that Future Janeway, who can't bare the fact that some people (Seven, Chipotle) didn't get happy endings even as others in her senior staff did, goes back in time to save their lives. But only to seven years after they got stranded, so Carey and everyone else who died in the Delta Quadrant (plus…

Judging by the first trailer, it's as Mary Sue as the most terrible fanfic around. Snowden was so amazing, he was fighting with the Special Forces on two broken legs and didn't even know it!