I saw the episode when it aired and man - I hadn't remembered how slashy it was.

I saw the whole arc a few years ago when some cable channel was running it. It struck me as uber-slashy, but it may have been that I was a Buffista by then and could see it.

I do think it's one of those shows that was invented for slash goggles.

There's a deal with bacon?

I love this. It sends my brain to a beautiful "buy 3 slices of bacon, we'll throw in the fried egg for free!" place.

Okay, and at the risk of sounding stupid I have to ask about the passage Kat quoted above:

we cannot allow the hard left to do what it tried to do in 1995 after the Oklahoma City bombing,” he wrote.

What did the hard left do after the bombing? Demonize people who bomb federal buildings? Call McVeigh crazy? My memory doesn't recall the left generating a lot of political capital out of the bombing.

Plei, she commented on my fb a couple of times this afternoon

Thanks, amych. I was concerned when I hadn't seen her pixels that through some unlikely fluke chance, her political involvement had taken her to Tuscon today.

Before I start yelling at people on the internets, have there been political assassinations or national news murders that were thought to be because of politically left tenor at the time. Whether or not the killers were actually motivated by it or not.

Like, was it thought that anti-Reagan liberals has triggered that assassination attempt?

I don't recall any of that sort of thing. I mean, it was far enough away from the 60s/early 70s that I don't think most people lept to that conclusion. In fact, we seemed to forget that we did have homebred terrorists until Oklahoma City.

Before I start yelling at people on the internets, have there been political assassinations or national news murders that were thought to be because of politically left tenor at the time. Whether or not the killers were actually motivated by it or not.

Maybe in Europe. Like Baader Meinhof was left. But be careful anyway, because one friend of this guy says he was actually very liberal.

Weather Underground. SLA. Jonestown, possibly.

Second double post today. Dunno why.

Wow, I just turned on my computer for the first time since last night. I had no idea about the Congresswoman's shooting. Horrific.

I'll just post about my chili that I finally made tonight, and which is almost done cooking (finally!). I was really surprised by how much liquid showed up by the end of the four-hour cooking time. When I first filled up the slow cooker with the various components, I was thinking I'd have to add some water halfway through, but I'm really glad I didn't now, because it's plenty liquidy. Guess the tomatoes cooked out the liquid. I ended up using 1 20-oz can of crushed tomatoes, 1 14-oz can of diced tomatoes, 1 can of tomato paste, 2 cans of Bush's chili beans (I like lots of beans in my chili), 1.25 pounds of cooked ground turkey, 2 small onions and 1 red bell pepper all chopped up and cooked with the turkey, some salt and pepper, 1 envelope of McCormick's chili seasoning, one or two teaspoons of cumin, and a couple tablespoons of chili powder. I tried to put in some red pepper flake, but the container I had was so old there was no more ooomph to the flakes, so I tossed them instead.

Pretty spicy! I'm having some in a few minutes for a very late dinner, and will see how many containers I can put the rest of it in between the fridge and freezer for later on. I'll see if Dad wants some for lunch tomorrow when he comes up, or if he wants to go out for lunch or early dinner instead.

We're going to see True Grit early in the afternoon, and will be in the same area as one of his favorite restaurants (Wildfire). I'll be able to get something off of their menu, I'm sure, just not our usual before-my-surgery selection of French onion soup and a split chicken caesar's salad.