'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
That is really great Allyson!
Did anyone watch that show, The Evidence, last night? It seemed to be set in America (San Francisco specifically), but the detectives were called inspectors and one of the inspectors asked someone to hand him a torch, not a flashlight. It was very strange, and I thought perhaps I missed something.
I wondered about that too, Sophia. I enjoyed the show - Orlando Jones rocks, although it was Totally Not Necessary to cut off his finger ACK ACK ACK. And the other guy I'm not in love with yet - the backstory was a little over the top with the flashbacks and slowmo and whatnot. Though I thought it was really cool that when they were shown messing around she was in pjs and a bathrobe instead of something slinky.
But the set-up is kind of intriguing - not so much for the "Can You Guess the Ending DUH DUH DUHNNN" but seeing where the pieces fit in as it goes along.
Something about the tunnels in Bones last night bugged me. And I think I've found the source of my skepticism. DC is notoriously swampy. I am skeptical about any Civil War era underground vaults, not to mention an abandoned network of tunnels. It's not a big deal, there was just some mental dissonance.
On the flipside, this LJ showed up with a word of warning:
Eh, there's no doubt that Pine Ridge has and has had its problems. But, I don't know, anonymous "they're all crooks and anyway this will make the people of SD hunt them down in the streets" doesn't mean so much to me.
Me neither.
She is a politician, and therefore makes enemies and puts up with bureaucratic crap, but I definitely admire the boldness and intention, even if she can't do it with a wave of her hand.
The Minimum Security webcomic sends up South Dakota Senator Bill Napoli, who helped push through the state ban on abortion. It features a woman unable to choose what sort of salad dressing to have, who calls up Napoli's office to get him to make the choice for her -- the strip includes his office and home phone numbers in case you want to try, too.
Hee!
It'd be worth a couple of bucks to me to even *try* to get a clinic open on the reservation--even if it doesn't happen.
Hell, I donated to the Kerry campaign, didn't I?
Um....
you mean Faust isn't about abortion?
Tresa Waggoner, the Bennett School District music teacher put on paid leave for showing a video clip of the opera Faust, said Thursday that she's looking for a new job.
Waggoner, placed on leave Jan. 30, said she called superintendent George Sauter on Thursday after a local newspaper reported that she would not be allowed to return to the classroom.
...
The video clip, narrated by opera star Joan Sutherland, featured sock puppets singing in French from the 16th-century morality tale.
Several parents complained that the video, which Waggoner got from the school library, contained references to abortion and Satan worship.
IIRC this blogger is a friend of ita's.