Fauxlivia
I don't think Fauxlivia is as bad as some people are assuming. IMHO, she's more like Charlie and Lee than like Alt-Broyles and Walternate — basically good, but driven to take some extreme steps by her experiences over the last several years.

Nice.

Darwinism
I agree with some of the comments below. If people who take advice fromBristol Palin or The Situation decide not to reproduce, then we're all winners.

Two Questions
1) Did PBS make cuts in its coverage of previous Mark Twain prize recipients, or did it allow their speeches to play uncut?

I don't think it was a dumb thing to say in context. IMHO, the governors of border states have a little more foreign policy experience than the governor of Iowa is likely to have. Given that Alaska has two foreign borders and no borders with US states, it's not world shaking but not risable either.

I love Hartman, so I hate to say this, but I think Kelsey Grammar is the best guest star. Back in the day, I was glad to see McClure or Hutz, but Sideshow Bob made my day, and most of it was Grammar's voice acting.

Random comments
1) I find Palin kind of charming. As someone wrote when she first got the VP nod, it's like she's a character out of an American frontier tall tale, having babies, running states, hunting moose, and generally hanging out with Mike Fink and John Henry.

Random thought
1) In Season One, the point of the side characters is that they seem to be living out a cliche police procedural, but they're all sitting on more personal secrets that Dexter keeps blundering into, which gives him insight into his own life. (Angel is a lonely sensitive cheating separated…

One thing you can say for Cage - in Face Off, he did a better job playing "mad, bad, dangerous to know bad boy Nick Cage" and "soulful good guy John Travolta" than Travolta did playing either character.

Victoria Jackson on SNL was a hot blond contortionist willing to do whatever the writers told her. Based on that, everything else is forgiven.

My pleasure. That and Buzz Lightyear were the only attractions we went to twice on our last visit.

I demand
a Dole Whip movie!

History
I haven't read the book on the epic late night wars, so somebody clue me in if this is wrong:

I *wish* they would cling to the latest fad! The second-to-latest-fad is more pathetic.

The best part in Dead Calm is the slapstick comedy of Sam Neill, stuck on the sinking boat full of dead bodies, as one thing after another goes wrong. (Seriously, it really gets pretty slapstick by the end.)

The bit in Ruthless People where there's about a mile of police cars following the ransom car at about 20 miles per hour.

Quinn subplot
I'm coming around to Quinn. Doakes wanted to take Dexter down in a much more aggressive way, while Quinn seems more like he's just the only cop who notices there's something wrong. In some ways, that makes Quinn more challenging, although I guess Dexter could always just catch him being a "dirty cop"…

Molly Shannon and Cheri Oteri are different people? I assumed that one of them was just a character developed by the other one.

My pitch
Avatar II: It turns out that the Navi lifestyle depends on oppressing the floating tree seeds, which are sentient and even more ecologically sensitive than the Navi. Sam Worthington projects his mind out of his Navi body and into a seed, gets it on with a hot seed princess, then leads a bloody seed rebellion…

My pitch
Avatar II: It turns out that the Navi lifestyle depends on oppressing the floating tree seeds, which are sentient and even more ecologically sensitive than the Navi. Sam Worthington projects his mind out of his Navi body and into a seed, gets it on with a hot seed princess, then leads a bloody seed rebellion…