But it makes me sad to see a legendary improvisor (and maybe the only one on the cast) playing a hack.

Do you mean Studio 60? Who are you referring to?

Stupid Northern Hemisphere tilting away from the Sun?

Stoopid North. Stoopid tilting.

Just you wait. Soon enough, it will be lighter in the morning, but pitch black after work. Then it'll just be dark all the time, but what can you do?

Then it'll just be dark all the time, but what can you do?

Turn on a light?

Do you mean Studio 60? Who are you referring to?

I am talking about Jacott.

I am talking about Jacott.

Huh. I never knew that about him. However, I've only seen him in Joss' shows. He was in the credits - he may get more to do in the future.

{{Nilly}} Thank you for the lovely card, and believe me when I say nothing you have ever done has ever offended me.

Then it'll just be dark all the time, but what can you do?

I'm planning on cursing the darkness, personally.

Then it'll just be dark all the time, but what can you do?

Create a graviton emitter, put into a polar orbit, and use it to correct the wobble. Or maybe just giant orbital reflectors, yeah that would be easier. Now all we need is a rocket and a buttload of tinfoil.

A quote from conservative Andrew Sullivan:

Late last night, before nodding off, I wondered, as I often do, whether I'd hyperbolized the threat from the looming detention-torture bill. "Legalizing tyranny" is a very strong phrase and I don't want to cry wolf. In the sense that this president intends to seize random Americans and rush them into black sites and torture them at will, it's hyperbole. But in a deeper sense, I think it's completely accurate. The system we're talking about is to do with wartime. A president in the past has had the option of seizing enemy combatants on a battlefield and detaining them without charge as POWs. There's no threat to liberty there. What's new is that in this war, enemy combatants have been designated as such not just on the battlefield - but anywhere in the world. What's new is that they are no longer entitled to POW status. What's new is that this war is for ever. So any changes are not just for a time-limited emergency but threaten to alter basic balances in constitutional order. What's also new is that torture is now allowed on the down-low, on the president's authority. And what's also new is that an enemy combatant may or may not be an American citizen.

Put all that together and you really do have the danger of taking emergency measures for wartime and transforming a peace-time constitution into an essentially martial system, where every citizen or non-citizen can be apprehended at will and detained without charge. I repeat: this is a huge deal. It really should be a huge deal for conservatives who care about restraining government power. Its vulnerability to abuse is enormous; sanctioned torture, history tells us, never remains hermetically sealed. It always spreads. It eats away at decency and law and civility. If the president sincerely believes that torture is our most potent weapon in this war, and that habeas corpus is a quaint relic from the past, then we are in far greater peril than even the most dire pessimists believe.

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