Oh, that was totally true. The right-wingers at the time hated Clinton with such white-hot fury (almost as much as they hate Obama), they were more than happy to imagine the White House going if it took him and Hillary with it.

If I ever need an uncontrollable giggle, all I have to do is think about Christine cleaning the house in her bra and at some point expounding about "the Jews," and then claiming that she's a very classy person. Clark Greg's Death Valley-dry reaction, for the ages: "Says the topless anti-Semite with the filthy house."…

OMG, is THAT who he grew up to be?!!?

In further news, water found to be wet.

See my post below; think we're on the same page.

Maybe not at a gut level, but American society still subconsciously (or not so subconsciously) still seems to get weird sometimes about outspoken women, such as Joan Rivers was: "Oh, she was so mean." Men don't usually get tagged with words such as "mean" "crass" "bossy" etc. that tend to imply the woman speaking has…

She is a great thing: a woman who seems to have absolutely no fear.

You could also note metaphorically that lobsters seems ferocious and tough—all shell and claws, as David tries to be—but inside they're completely soft tissue. Throw them in boiling water, and they're helpless (like David).

You know we're in trouble when you start getting nostalgic for George Bush's penchant for nicknames such as "Turd Blossom" for Karl Rove and "Pootie-Poot" for Putin.

That scene will reduce anyone to jelly. (Remember Spielberg showing the general sobbing to it in "1941"?)

MIA: Redford & Streisand's "I can't come, Katie." "I know." Heather Ledger cradling Jake Gyllenhall's shirt. Penelope Ann Miller slow dancing with a tic-ridden Robert De Niro. Meryl Streep making Sophie's Choice. Winona Ryder leaving Johnny Depp with "I love you" in "Edward Scissorhands." The orphans coming up the…

Ah, but I still remember that shot of the nets closing around Kunta, and the wailing on the soundtrack. Don't know about the rest of the ep, but I sure remember that moment (and the horrors of the slave ship).

See my post above; think you nailed a lot of the same themes.

"The Man in the High Castle" was no walk in the park, and it had great ratings.

Besides Anna Paquin, who's an abolitionist spy, who else? The remake made it clear: no whites in the South would dare to stick their necks out for a black person. Period.

Yeah, I was a suburban white kid too, and I think having "likable" white actors such as Asner, Robert Reed (Mr. Brady!) and Sandy Duncan in their roles wasn't necessarily a "sop" to me and others like me—it felt more like a smart way to lure in white viewers and then give them a good, hard backhand: these are not…

Reagan's gift was taking a bunch of people who followed very different aspects of conservatism ("Rockerfeller" Republicans all about money, born-again Evangelicals focusing on social issues such as abortion, "morality" and gays, 2nd Amendment absolutists who were sick of crime, "muscular" foreign policy hawks who were…

"Oh boy, the Democrats! They always have more fun at their conventions cause they know they're not going anywhere afterwards!" —Keith Carradine as Will Rogers

Showed "Brian's Song" to a class last week (yes, the original). Still jerked tears despite (or because of) the un-subtle score.

I don't know how Keri Russell does any of the things she does with her eyes, especially the way she can make them stay chillingly cold and opaque even as she's trying to work a disarming smile.