Oh yeah, I wasn't remotely saying Saddam was a good person or anything. Just that he wasn't posing an immediate threat to the US and did not have anything to do with 9/11, which were the two pretexts for invading the country.

That was my reaction too. As I'm allergic to most perfumes, I concluded he smells of Migraines and Uncontrollable Sneezing.

The latter is a great example of writing from the Department of Redundancy Department.

I agree that the Bigly/Rigged stuff is pretty tedious, and also that those 3 aren't the only ones to bring politics into other threads (raises hand guiltily). But one is a harmless conspiracy-peddler, the other is a horrible human being who deeply hates women and is generally unable to see other people as anything…

This is why I have Singultarian blocked and not Jasoo.

the people that voted for him must have their lives be negatively affected and realize why.

Well the other thing is, the CIA told the Bush administration there was no clear evidence of WMDs, and Bush (or, more likely, Cheney) didn't want to hear it. It's like the US has collective amnesia or something - does no one remember that the "evidence" for going to war was cherry picked and massaged by people outside…

Areas historically used for protest around the capital have been declared unusable by the National Park Service in the days leading up to and following the Inauguration. Planned protests are still going forward, but it seems clear that the Inauguration Committee wants them kept out of sight of the cameras.
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His name shows up after POTUS has been shot in S2, E1 of The West Wing, too, which was a year before the 9/11 attacks.

It's funny that in the DVD extras Roberts talks about how for Soderbergh she would be happy to play The Chick, but how there's actually more to Tess than just being the girl, and it's like, whatever you need to tell yourself, honey.

I think he's worse. One is a conspiracy-peddling nutjob, the other is a genuinely horrible person who wants other people to suffer for his so-called principles.

Courteney Cox is a year older than Rue McClanahan was when Golden Girls premiered.

I once was on a streetcar with a woman who put her bag on the seat next to her and her makeup bag on the Please Give Up This Seat for Pregnant Women and the Elderly seat in front of her, and proceeded to do her makeup while other people were standing. On my way out the door, I hissed "I hope you paid for three seats"…

It's been pointed out that they're using Kellogg's trademarks in their boycott ads. I hope Kellogg's sues the shit out of them.

THIS.

The Singultarian is not affected by racism or sexism or homphobia, so he doesn't care. He pretends to be a progressive, but he's really the worst kind of "I got mine, fuck you" conservative who thinks issues of gender, race, and sexuality a) don't matter that much (because they don't affect him) and b) aren't…

Apparently known as precinct dramas (at least in the UK). The producer of MI5/Spooks talked about how he landed on spies because he was tired of cops and doctors and wanted something that was more life-and-death than, say, the daily lives of veterinarians.

It's also one of Sorkin's pet subjects like Gilbert & Sullivan.

This is only marginally related to your top story (through guns, unfortunately) but I thought it a good thing to bring up.