Oh, well phooey on them too, then. Was it this picture [link] , ita? It almost looks like she wore some sort of shield or something on them. A little scary.

ION Emmy news, I don't think he *has* to call Buffy, any more.

*sigh* When did James Spader turn into a middle aged guy?

[link] Piven is still the cute.

Hargitay is working her dress [link] but I guess I expect that from Jayne Mansfield's daughter.

I was just going to say there was a lot of color this year, but then I hit a run of black dresses.

Alyson Hannigan's dress is perfect on her. She looks wonderful.

Kiefer has looked better. [link] I guess he's no longer dating the woman who played Michelle.

What happened to Stockard? [link]

[link] Shohreh Aghdashloo is so very beautiful. I'd like to see a color on her.

[link] Marcia Cross hit on the perfect color green for her, with that dress, and her hair. Pretty pretty pretty.

Bill Clinton breaks with the tradition of US presidents not criticising their successors: [link]

"We have never done this before. Never in the history of our republic have we ever financed a conflict, military conflict, by borrowing money from somewhere else."

Clinton added: "We depend on Japan, China, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, and Korea primarily to basically loan us money every day of the year to cover my tax cut and these conflicts and Katrina. I don't think it makes any sense."

Go Team Secular! [link]

This morning's USA Today reports that this is the first day on the job for Lori Lipman Brown , a former Nevada State Senator, who begins work today as executive director of the Secular Coalition for America, a newly-formed alliance that wants to fight the galloping drive toward theocracy by the Christian right and their Republican allies. "Her two goals: keep religion out of government and win respect for a stigmatized minority" -- Americans who don't believe in God, as the paper puts it.

Emmy shallowness: has anyone found pictures of Jennifer Garner?

There's one here:

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Jennifer's popular here.

Simon got props? That is maybe not a birthday gift, but some kind of portent of the end of the world. Still cool to me. And speaking of class...if both those guys can be in the same room, being my "husband" and "boyfriend' and nobody jails, that's classy, too. I didn't watch...I have an allergy to award shows. I'll still go get my Emmy, though.

I was dorkily excited when they said Pelecanos's name on the Emmys. Like he's my friend or something. I mean, really.

Jennifer Garner's all preggo! Cute.

I just found out last night that two close family friends (one is my god sister) are pregnant with twins! I mean, two different women. That'll be a lot of babies all of a sudden.

Jesse, wrod. I did the same thing when my friend sent me the nom. announcement.(I get a Quinn and Strange toaster for her, too. the hippest toaster ever.) Yeah...I felt all proud like my good taste was getting props, or like my real boyfriend just got a promotion. Pelecanos fans are pretty passionate. Amazon told me I am 85,000 times more likely than most customers to buy his latest.

Jesse & erika would have to split my Pelecanos toaster -- maybe I could get each of them a barbeque lighter or something.

Yeah, Rome is finally picking up the pace a bit. I wasn't sure if it was going to be worth continuing with, but the last 2 episodes have been much more entertaining (and I don't just mean James' Purefoy).