I'm no huge fan of Margaret—in the past, I've found her hypocritical and tiresome; not so much this season*—but I have to agee with your reading of her character. The only sluttish crime she's guilty of is fucking Sleater and even that is ameliorated and explained by the profound alienation she's feeeling thanks to…

"Landing party," not "away team." Carry on…

I don't think Farrell left DS9 for Becker, I think she was fired for being a rabble-rouser. Indeed, I read on a Star Trek fan board that she was later fired from Becker for the same reason.

I think the WW end theme was the pilot's opening theme re-purposed once it became clear the show was gonna be a bit more serious than the Rob Lowe and the Prostitute plot suggested.

Hence the rousing punk anthem about taking down the invidious Harper Valley chapter.

That dog reminded Tony of Livia.

Let me tell you about my mother.

But she's defending the skank-titty of marriage. Get it? It's the words "skank" and "titty" put together so they kinda sound lke "sanctity." So proud of myself right now…

No more drugs or alcohol!
No more pot or Demerol!
No more—
D'oh!

Didn't Galileo say that?

Plus, he clearly says "Earth," which makes the joke solely about how THOSE people don't know how to speak correctly. Smith grew up a solidly middle class kid and is famous for keeping his rhymes grammatically correct. Fuck the apologists, the meme is straight-up racist.

Okay—I do recall all that; I thought I may have missed something more.

Plus, her ass looked pretty fantastic in those omnipresent 24th Century jumpsuits….

Whoa, where does it say that's what goes on on Selusa Secundus? Is that from the Anderson novels or did I just forget ot from the real novels (been a long time since I've last read Dune; longer still since I read any of the F. Herbert sequels).

Sean, please accept this black man's sincere thanks for not going to the "Earff" well on this.

I disagree most emphatically—neither movie is any good but Temple of Doom is by far the worse of the two.

I love the fatuous look of smug satisfaction as the server grates cheese (or is it peppper) on his plate right after he shoots Carmella down. I don't think it's all about Phil being a good Catholic here; as Todd points out, Carmella is rubbing his nose in her affair (and suggesting he comes off as gay while doing it).…

Yeah, she says she knows a guy who can supply the massage place with ginseng and fake rhino horn. Gotta wonder just what goes into fake rhino horn…

Funny, though.

Good! Alec Guinness said dismissive things about Star Wars and Star Wars fans. I hope Lucas does scrub him out of the series.  Besides, Ewan MacGregor is way cooler: he was in Trainspotting. What did Guinness ever do?