Some of my Wire-watching bunkies already passed on Madam Speaker's connection to the City that Bleeds, Hecubus. Still an awesome story, though
My favorite part is that as a kid she kept her Dad's ledger of political favors. He marked ever favor given and every favor owed in a giant ledger. That'll teach you a thing or two about politics. Everybody's all "SF liberal" but she's a hard hitting East Coast machine politics vet, Italian Catholic. She rode hard on the Dems to toe the line on voting (88%!) and in a race that depended on propriety ousted Jefferson from a key post when he was caught dirty.
I really wish I knew why there was 15 minutes of furious car honking outside my building, followed by the arrival of four (!) fire trucks and two command vehicles that left only ten minutes later. This is shit I need to know!
There really should be a google for that.
Everybody's all "SF liberal" but she's a hard hitting East Coast machine politics vet, Italian Catholic.
Baltimore press is all "Another Alessandro!" Seriously, she is EC machine and manipulation. She's SF liberal the way I'm east coast liberal. Which is to say, not. She has serious old school game, and I hope she uses it. Well, not the old school corruption part, anyway.
Is that really
Bill Nye, the Science Guy
on Numb3rs?!
Also, no, I really have no weekend life.
I think so -- I had heard a while back that
he was going to guest. He's
on faculty - maybe
he will recur!
It is, and wow are his line deliveries flat.
Heh, I was just about to come ask who that guy was, because you could sort of tell he wasn't
an actor. I wondered if he was a well-known science person.
Dude, his lines are ALWAY flat! He's
the Science Guy!
Well, that's good, right? A little tough to go with the granola.(And that means she's chased away "Clay Davis" once or twice, which is good preparation for the new fights ahead.)ETA: I scare the hell out of the more hummus-eating, Kum-ba-yah liberals in my acquaintance, cause, you know, death is my gift. But we probably vote the same.
