Interest in Meerkat Manor was half the plot of Amy Adams' character in Junebug.

And like you say, it's a form of entertainment. You're tuning in to see what your neighbors are selling, and to impute various dramas.

And on local radio in the Midwest. Last time I was out there they were still running, but were giving more than the last four digits of the phone numbers!

And OINTB is not network.

It's a new week, Monday, time to anticipate Fargo. Three episodes remain. Titles are not spoilers!

Fellow cat avatarist has the winning comment for this day.

"Peyton Manning played golf with Donald Trump as he tweeted about the London attack." - Denver Post

Season two mini-winnie review: it's ok! (My review of last season: almost ok!) For my full review, amble over dejectedly to http://www.avclub.com/artic… and sort by "Newest" and you'll probably see it near the top. Look for the bright smiles.

"Minute" review of Flaked season two: it's ok! (My review of last season: almost ok!) [Venice Beach hipster/loser half-hour comedy starring Will Arnett, produced by Mitch Hurwitz, on Netflix.] The whole show seems like more together this season, I don't know, I watch it. Maybe somebody will come by and read this…

Not entirely for his books.

Totally agree, it's worse. Nixon did probably scuttle the 1968 peace negotiations, costing untold lives, but he was not beholden to any foreign power.

Yeah, not sure this was made for the U.S. market. Looks expensive though, contrary to the article. The embedded video actually has three trailers if anyone's not able or willing to watch it:

Stop selling me whiskey, Mila Kunis!

Notice she blamed her "team," and she's not talking about the dwarfs.

One more example: the humor section at the book store. Long ago it became exclusively actors and comedians from TV. Maybe a David Sedaris every so often. Something generic like a joke book now required a known name.

Same thing happened to the covers of fashion mags. Celebs stole the bread out of the mouths of models. Often they were sort of mid-level models I think. After the change it was just about 100% celebs because it was seen as the only way the sell a somewhat interchangeable product in the grocery store checkout line.

One more thing, Nixon knew there was an ongoing judicial proceeding. The arraignment of the Watergate burglars was in the morning paper! The smoking gun tape was specifically about getting that case squashed via telling the CIA to tell the FBI to back off for national security reasons. Somebody said no and it didn't…

According to the pundits, actual legal O. of J. requires that he knew he was obstructing an ongoing judicial process. That's why I spun up my scenario. Now for impeachment, anything goes. They can just call it "impeding justice." Whatever, as long as it plausibly matches the Constitution about impeachment powers.

Hitler's opposition only had 10% of the votes in the 1932 election, whereas Trump's had +3 million votes. So it's not worse than Hitler. But that 10% is ignoring the 53% of the votes won by the centrist. Hitler's party itself only got 37%. So it is worse than Hitler.

I doubt he trapped him into actual obstruction, in the legal sense, but if he did it would go like this: first meeting, tell him there is a grand jury proceeding about Russiagate. Second meeting: listen to him obstruct it.