Yep, and if you look at Trump and the dominant party within the party in Congress, it just looks exactly like an embittered minority government that wants to either break everything before they lose out demographically, or change the rules and hold on for another four years. Who knows. I was wrong when I thought Trump…

Democracy was always filtered through lots of mediating agencies - political parties, unions, the chamber of commerce, newspaper editorials, the blowhard at the bar after work, the League of Women Voters. These vandals realized they could trade on ignorance and the partial breakdown of those institutions. That's one…

Better evidence for Nixon in '68 interfering with Johnson's peace negotiations in Vietnam?

I don't know when TNT did other good work, but its three-parter about the CIA in Berlin and elsewhere, The Company, from 2007, was on a Starz channel last week. Very good! Michael Keaton and Alfred Molina. http://www.washingtonpost.c…

Not knowing much about them, besides a recent interview, it just sounds like the most superficial use of that title, probably based on 1. salt-n-pepper team, 2. defiant is a cool attitude. I went back and read the Wikipedia on the movie to see if it came from a novel or whatever. Nope, but the toughest thing was that…

What if I told you it had a rare Patti Smith interview? Yeah, I can't stand celebrity self-worship either, so I'll be skipping it unless I mistakenly graze past it and get caught up.

That was the plot of Terminator 3.

Gunsmoke, 635 episodes, 1955-75
Makes Hawaii Five-O look like a technicality in this category.
Hawaii Five-O, 281 episodes, 1968–1980.

By contrast when I read the Northern Exposure recaps here I remember almost all of it!

Even Donald Trump hasn't made all his underlings lie for him. As far as we know.

Two more:

There are several similarities of the "Lincoln's secretary was named Kennedy" variety. So they would have lots to talk about.

The aftereffects of McCarthyism take some blame for the end of the Golden Age, for draining talent and scaring the rest, but the truth is schlock made more money. Maybe seriousness survived on the talk shows? Even Mike Douglas's afternoon show in the 1970s mixed book authors with all the rest, celebs, etc.

The biggest gut punch of the 1961 Vast Wasteland speech is in the third paragraph:

It's half oxygen deprivation. There's a reason dentists mix it with oxygen.

The contra-Kanji preparatory prophylactic bunker here covers what's on tonight every day (even Saturdays!): https://disqus.com/home/cha…

Resorting to Trumpalytics, we can explain this as yet a fourth straight day of Trump exhibiting his anxiety/hostility towards women/bleeders. He's directly contradicting Sarah Huckabee Sander's most prominent remark yesterday, that Trump "has [n]ever promoted or encouraged violence." He expresses his latent Yin…

Even if removed by the cabinet, it's only temporary until 2/3 of both houses approve.

That was about two seasons ago. She's back to normal 5-0 stuff now, when I catch this show. Haven't seen the shrimp guy lately,.

They're going to bury his statue in Mt. Rushmore, not on it!