I can't think of any way to keep a gun safely and be thinking of using it for self-defense in my apartment, mind. I'm just not going to get enough lead time in that small square footage. But that's part of the problem of stickfighting too. Room to swing.

Ah, well. Nobody better attack me.

What is man-made leather? I just saw boots described as being of "man-made stretch leather." Did an animal die or not? If not, dude, not leather.

Kat, why are you packing up your classroom?

Because I'm going off track and another teacher will be using the room I'm in while I'm gone.

I'm pretty sad about John Spencer. I wonder if they knew he had heart troubles when they wrote the heart attack stuff from a few seasons ago?

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Cool music-finding website. Might work better in IE than Firefox.

That's funny, Gud! I am using it right now, AIFG!

Well, it's playing me Prince right now, so it wins.

Of course, Prince is what I typed in, so it's a bit of a gimme.

A frog would be kind of festive, as long as it was sparkly.

I'm not sure if it's sparkly, but a frog in a tutu seems pretty festive to me.

Does knowing it's completely par for the course make it more or less offensive?

For me, neither. It's offensive. The only thing that made me give it a half second pause, was wondering if whoever wrote the title was stuck in gronk while trying to make a Tru Calling/Jewelry pun, and didn't realize, but I decided I can't buy that.

I don't remember if this has been posted before - a slideshow of frightened, screaming and/or crying children sitting on Santa's lap: [link]

Nothing says Christmas like innocent children shrieking with terror at a hulking red stranger dragging them onto his lap.

Donna and Leo were not there. (although it is possible they mentioned him in the dialogue, I don't have total recall).

No, they wouldn't say anything specific about Leo, because he's the VP candidate. The big mystery is who won the election, so if they'd said anything about Leo, they would have given it away. Leo's future is safely still a mystery. (And luckily, both Alan Alda and Jimmy Smits are tall mofos, because they had some indeterminate feet representing the president, and the president has clearly got Sasquatch-feet.)

Not looking forward to an episode where they kill off Leo, and then spend a whole hour agonizing about how they'd always known his health was an issue, and OMG we look like turds, there go our poll numbers. Poll numbers, shmoll numbers. Leo is too important to waste him in a drama about electability.

Maybe he can just be campaigning in Alaska this whole time?

[edited to avoid spoilage]

If the flashforward happened this season, it's safest to white out the details. As much as they are, you know, details.