In future eps

I totally agree with what you said in white font. There's a lot of potential with the concept, but it could go one-note really easily.

Loving SpyDaddy - hope the show takes off so he can keep being snarky and cynical on my TV every week. And hopefully they'll give Eamonn Walker a bit more to do in future eps.

Okay, either Justice has been significantly recut from the godawful pilot I saw a few months ago, or else you all are smoking the good crack. My SpyDaddy love was not nearly strong enough to overcome the weird overlit hyperactive camerawork.

There was weird hyperactive camerawork, but I don't watch TV closely enough for that to necessarily bother me.

There was weird hyperactive camerawork, but I don't watch TV closely enough for that to necessarily bother me.

I noticed, but it didn't bother me any more than it does in other shows (the WONDERFALLS pilot being an example where I thought things were too damn busy, but enjoyed it anyway). I'd rather have weird and hyperactive than grainy/shakey.

I watched the beginning of it and seriously? I love Spy!Daddy but wasn't too into the thing.

Maybe I'll give it another try.

I wasn't too wild about the constant in-show banners telling you where in the trial it is. Of course, they could get away with dropping them after a few episodes, once people get the hang of it.

My friend K and I liked the female lawyer, and SpyDaddy was snarky. But they can't just be a "House with lawyers," or it'll get old fast.

A harsh critique of the Dog Whisperer.

The notion of the “alpha pack leader” dominating all other pack members is derived from studies of captive packs of unrelated wolves and thus bears no relationship to the social structure of natural packs, according to L. David Mech, one of the world’s leading wolf experts. In the wild, the alpha wolves are merely the breeding pair, and the pack is generally comprised of their juvenile offspring and pups.

“The typical wolf pack,” Dr. Mech wrote in The Canadian Journal of Zoology in 1999, “is a family, with the adult parents guiding the activities of a group in a division-of-labor system.” In a natural wolf pack, “dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all,” he writes.

Do folks know about the whole Patriot Pastor movement? It's especially powerfull in Ohio, but will be spreading to other states.

Networks of "Patriot Pastors" organized at the state level by powerful evangelical pastors through so-called "Restoration Projects" are aiming to transform America by applying the significant resources of their churches to political campaigns. Candidates for public office are judged either godly or tools of Satan depending on their adherence to the pastors' unforgiving agendas - not only on traditional Religious Right "social" issues such as criminalizing abortion and stripping gay Americans of legal rights, but also on a wide range of economic policies that would limit the government's ability to pursue the common good. Patriot Pastor leaders embrace tax cuts, elimination of the minimum wage, and even doing away with environmental and worker safety regulations on industry. This model of a pulpit-based political machine pushing hard-right politics and candidates has the potential to transform politics across the nation.

In Ohio, where this new wave of church-based organizing in pursuit of such political agendas is most advanced, the "Patriot Pastors" machine is a force to be reckoned with, and has put Ken Blackwell one election away from the governor's mansion. At the same time, activists in Texas, Pennsylvania, and elsewhere are working hard to build similar movements in their states inspired by this new Ohio political machine. Ohio-based pastor and televangelist Rod Parsley explained in a visit to the Texas Restoration Project, "I can snap my fingers and 200,000 Ohioans send an e-mail to our Ohio legislators."

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More:

Last week, the People For the American Way Foundation, the NAACP, and the African American Ministers Leadership Council released a report, The Patriot Pastors' Electoral War Against the `Hordes of Hell'

“The typical wolf pack,” Dr. Mech wrote in The Canadian Journal of Zoology in 1999, “is a family, with the adult parents guiding the activities of a group in a division-of-labor system.” In a natural wolf pack, “dominance contests with other wolves are rare, if they exist at all,” he writes.

I remember reading, decades ago, that wild dog packs are the perfect society because everyone knows their job and there is no reason for struggle because resources are divided appropriately.

The 'alpha dog' technique works with my pooch because it gets his attention (folks who have seen us work together call it my 'big voice') but I was disabused of the popular 'pack of two' notion by our first trainer who said that there is no such thing. Nope, he said, you two are a couple.

eta: pesky soundalikes

Patriot Pastor movement

That just sounds scary. I wonder what eliminating the minimum wage has to do with Jesus.