Also WRT JMPP-- I am poor and I totally get that a lot of why I am poor has been my poor choices. They are poor financial choices that wouldn't have mattered if I were more ambitious and had gotten better jobs, but they are poor nonetheless. Also, it leaves out the part where that if we really knew that our choices sucked, we obviously wouldn't make them!

But the thing is a) it doesn't magically get better and b) it really makes me appreciate how hard it is for really poor people. It is hard work just getting around in my city, unless you live and work where I do. It is incredibly hard to navigate the social services system, which is so overloaded that a case worker my mother called (my mother is a case worker in the next county) had a message on her answering machine saying "You can leave a message, but I may not call you back because I have 500 pending cases". I have, through my mother, helped college educated people navigate through the system, but I can't imagine someone who wasn't a confident person doing it without help.

Did you see that ep of Whose Line Is it Anyway where he was the guest? funniest. thing. ever.

Did you see that ep of Whose Line Is it Anyway where he was the guest? funniest. thing. ever.

I think it was posted here. It was the funniest thing I have every seen! No one could keep a straight face except Colin Mochrie(sp)-- not even Ryan Stiles!

I think it was posted here.

Yeah, ita posted it.

That clip should have a warning that you might hurt yourself laughing....

Random fun moment. I am recording the names and email addresses for the boys new teachers. Mrs. Burrell is teaching Bobby World Culture. It made me smile.

I'm the only one who didn't find it that funny, aren't I?

I'm the only one who didn't find it that funny, aren't I?

The Richard Simmons thing? Non-lurkers support you in this post.

Oh! I don't understand how that wasn't funny. It was such a fine feeling to laugh with Richard Simmons and not at him. So coy, so fey, so...lovely.

Did anyone else watch Part 1 of the Spike Lee Katrina doc last night? Just gutwrenching stuff, and so much footage that I don't remember seeing before (mostly BBC, apparently). Those interviews, the music, that incredibly moving rap/song/poem at the end...I am now as angry as I was a year ago.

And then, after watching that, I saw the Anthony Bourdain Beirut special. He was really pissed too--he just kept it very tightly controlled.

All in all, a rather depressing evening of television, after the fluff of the Treasure Hunters finale (yawn!).

Did anyone else watch Part 1 of the Spike Lee Katrina doc last night? [..] And then, after watching that, I saw the Anthony Bourdain Beirut special.

I see you are on the sarameg tv diet! (not that I saw either of those cause rabbit ears, but...) I have a tendency towards going on tragedy-and-doom marathons without even meaning to. I keep wanting to rent Syriana, Munich and Paradise Now to top my previous issue-oriented depressing triad of Year of Living Dangerously, Welcome to Sarajevo and Three Kings, but that might be just a little much.....