Hell, in any election, that's alot. Even the biggest landslides are fought between the 40 yard lines (i.e. Reagan '84 won 59-41; Clinton '96 won 49-41, Bush '88 and Obama '08 won 53-46). One percentage point in the national popular vote makes a big difference. It's more than Gore's margin over Bush, and half of Bush's…

Man, nothing ever works out for Mike Dukakis, does it?

Coming in 2018: Sanders: The Movie!

Of course, the reason Tommy Boy has survived in the popular consciousness for the last 20+ years (unlike, say, Black Sheep) is that outside of the jokes, it really is a surprisingly well made uplifting Drama: The things that work best in the film is the relationships, between Father and Son, and Farley and Spade. The…

That was the case in the hayday of Conan and Kilborn too though…maybe it works better that way?

Multiple comedies about has beens. Isn't that what The Tonight Show is these days?

The proposals to move of the Sec. of Homeland Security usually placed it after Attorney General (so 9th in line). Which begs the question: If Homeland Security was bungled so badly we got down to the 9th spot in the Presidential succession list, why would we want to give the guy in charge of it a promotion?

One thing I love about that skit even more in hindsight is that Hartman gets the whole irrepressible Wonk Bubba aspect of him. Hammond was 100% locked in on the 'Slick Willy' concept, while Hartman got the different sides within Bill Clinton.

God, we're like 5 years away from a Simpsons Episode saying Skinner was actually in Afghanistan or Iraq, aren't we?

I'll always remember Heartbreak Ridge, because that's what our camp counselor told everyone else we were watching when he was actually showing a bunch of middle schoolers Pulp Fiction.

He wasn't really the designated survivor (that was a cabinet secretary), it's just that the President Pro Tem of the Senate, while technically the 4th in line for the Presidency, is the senior-most member of the majority party. This mean's he's frequently an old fart. Back in the Bush Administration Ted Stevens and…

And the West Wing didn't even look 'that' cool: It was a dark conference room with big, fancy display screens at one end. Most of the TV ones look like a souped up Dr. Strangelove War Room meets the bridge of the Starship Enterprise.

"Oh man, I can't fucking believe this. Another bunker, another Capitol Hill Bomb. How can the same shit happen to the same Secretary of Housing and Urban Development twice?"

One of the bigger problems with most of these shows is that they're reaching for a higher concept than they have to. So for Commander-In-Chief she was independent! And the Speaker (who was now next in line for POTUS) was a Republican! And he had to act as President once. One thing that helped make The West Wing work…

Eh. Part of the reason that UK/Canada elections are so short is that they've picked the nominees way long in advance. Pretty much from October 2010, you knew Cameron, Miliband, and Clegg were going to be 'on the ballot' in May 2015, and the various party leaders campaigned and intrigued against each other until then. …

Part of it too I think is that Rice had more pull with W than Powell did, which meant there was an actual counter to the Cheney/Rumsfeld axis in the inner circle in a way that Powell, who wasn't "One of us" failed.

Does anyone remember Lemmings Paintball? I got that in a pack with the earlier Lemmings games: it was such a weird hybrid of mostly a puzzle (with like 2/3 Lemmings), but also shooting things.

There's a Twilight Zone from the UPN years about that, I think. Katherine Heigl went back in time to kill Baby Hitler, but another nursemaid buys a gypsy baby and replaces him. That baby grows up to be… Hitler.

Buzzfeed Leno strikes again!

Yup, and when you gave him something good, he really aced it. I always thought he should have gotten awards recognition for About a Boy. It's a tricky part, and he was perfection in a way you can't imagine anyone else in the role. As Roger Ebert put it: