Ringer was painful. Watching our feminist superhero getting literally pushed around by men and being the Park Slope bitch from Cruel Intentions towards her friends and family. However, Buffy, I mean Sarah, did do a helluva job with the script she was given.

Boomers who came of age during the '60's were deeply progressive whereas later Boomers from the 70's were deeply conservative.
However, the student campus against Vietnam drafting combined with flower power culture had already formed the general consensus about Boomers.

Pushing Daisies makes me wince. Each episode had a higher rating than the one before it, and then sudden cancelletion due to writers strike.
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I've got a feeling… a dancing demon.

Whoops, I thought it was some pop-culture reference that was too clever for me.

Someone, please explain.

Michael C. Hall starred in the best and the worst show finales of all time; Six Feet Under and Dexter.

'Anti-intellectual intellectual' is an interesting turn of phrase. Reminds me of US conservative political commentator.
Opposs opinion making by 'elites' whilst often enjoying positions pf media power and beneficiaries of elite Ivy-league education .
Milton Friedman, Thomas Sowell, William F. Buckley. Allan Bloom all…

Bad people can still be public intellectuals.
In fact, quite a few them are.

Dislikable figures can still be thought-leaders. Steve Jobs ruled over a billion dollar business empire that uses slave labor in China and , personally, stole a donor heart from a recipient in Tennessee.
However, he was a 'thought leader' in fields like industrial design, computing and business management.

Darwin's book Origin of Species was a best-seller and fairly easy to read. Much of what he wrote was already known by other scientist but he popularised it.
He was famous on the lecture circuit and influenced public opinion on range of matters.
If he were around today, he would be considered a public intellectual.

Being a public intellectual is often about taking the ideas of others and writing about them to engage the general public.
Even the 'greats' like Charles Darwin stood on the shoulders of giants.

It will be critically acclaimed and well-watched but cancelled at the wrong time.

Yeah, not an Apple fan boy but definitely can conceive of how Steve Jobs was a public intellectual.

Diamond was narrow, but then, so was Marx. Both left a bring imprint in how we see the world.

We have still public intellectuals. However, Norman Mailer is not one of them.
An *honest* list of English public intellectuals, Noam Chomsky , Jared Diamond, Jane Jacobs, Naomi Klein, Nate Silver, Bjørn Lomborg, Malcolm Gladwell, Freakeconomics, ,Stephen Hawkings in the '90s, Richard Dawkins, .
Honorable mention to…

I would have much preferred a world where 9/11 could have been prevented, and simply let the consequences fall where they may.
The impact on America, of Texas Republicans and Saudi fundamentalist were basically like the German barbarians who smashed Rome.
The 2000s were basically America's Lost Decade. US incomes…

Hollywood is not liberal. Actors are liberal but the decision-makers in Hollywood are senior-management in SoCal media corporations. the people who run these organisations are very conservative in their outlook. Even celebrity actors have little power.
I would compare it to the US Military. According to research, US…

Who said it was either/or?

Stopping 9/11 may have had some unforeseen consequences.
During the late 90's, the liberal Democratic Party was being egged on by their midwestern industrial base to have a Great Powers show-down with an economically ascendant China. The post 9/11 low-growth world allowed Bush to transition the USA out of hyperpower…