Ironically, given who he's named for, John Rawls would go far in the Bush Administration.

hey...don't usually do this, but thought you'd laugh. And we're all heng mai right?(crosses fingers) [link] It's a filk of My Favorite Things. ETA: Bet Simon named him and laughed and laughed, Corwood.

Nice!

Thanks...I guess the monkey laudanum's been doing its job, right?

Tasty!

Rats. I come back for some discussion about shows, and it is all about who is a hottie.

Ok, extra points for putting Smooth Lester in the hottie category. But, still.

Lester is a hero of a human being. That's sexy, right? There was nothing new last week, bunk. Discussion of the foamy tends to fill an off week.

'Kay.

I am working my way though my Wire backlog. At this point, I am nostalgic for S2, which had a lot of stuff to say about a lot of stuff.

I am on to this season having something to say about education, but I wish they would get on with the saying of it.

I think losing George P. this year cost them pace-wise...man's got a gift for being snappy that the literary spouse, god bless him, hasn't got.(By which I mean David Simon, Mr. Detail, of course. And I love them. But.) Wow, I think that was substantive. Check it.)

I think it is being said. Consider Cutty's face when he learns about why he's a truant officer (all that "school is school" stuff), or the upside of the face slashing being that the girl doesn't have AIDS, if you were concerned about that (one of the most chilling asides I've ever heard), or the teachers talking about how to keep the kids distracted and tired so they won't be disruptive, or the look on the face of the girl who threw Prez's pencil back at him when she learns that she's in the corner kids group. Next week, when they pick up the "teach to the test" stuff, the only difference is that it'll be said in capital letters.