Very cool about your cousin, Hil, and I'm impressed by your genealogy-fu. All this talk is making me want to sign up at Ancestry and give it another go.

(waves at Shrift) Go, Hil, with the finding stuff. Cool about your cousin too...that looks like it could be a big one.

The show is called "Masters of Sex," though, which makes it kind of difficult to talk about without a lot of explaining. It's non-fiction-ish, based on the lives of Masters and Johnson.

And it's getting a ton of very strong critical response. I may check it out, just so I can watch a new show with buzz that isn't about serial killers or sex crimes or drug dealers.

I may check it out, just so I can watch a new show with buzz that isn't about serial killers or sex crimes or drug dealers.

Serial sex dealers!

The first episode is up on the Showtime website.

The show is called "Masters of Sex," though, which makes it kind of difficult to talk about without a lot of explaining. It's non-fiction-ish, based on the lives of Masters and Johnson.

I wondered from the commercial if it was about Masters & Johnson. Cool.

Cool about your cousin too...that looks like it could be a big one.

Yeah. She's been in a few things before -- one episode of Grey's Anatomy, one episode of Bones, a bunch of commercials, a really ridiculous Lifetime movie -- but this is her first recurring role.

Go, cousin of Hil!

I wish I could see that side of the family more often. They're pretty much my closest relatives on my dad's side, but since they live in LA, we only see them every few years or so.

note: quick point about the GOP and Obamacare (no ranting - at least not today)

I read an article in the past few days about how the majority of government employees are in states who voted for Romney as opposed to Obama in the last election. Take Wyoming for example, for all of their railing against federal gov, state govt, the govt is a HUGE employer.

I make this point because the House GOP loves to rail against Obamacare, some believe that it will work and that's why they are against it. Why couldn't another result be that it works, and that in some regions of the country it still does not substantially change the political dynamic of those who current support GOP or Democrats?

It seems to me illogical to think that Obamacare = more Democratic voters when government employees do not equal more Democratic voters.

That said, apparently a lot of virulently anti-Obamacare GOP are fundraising the shit out of this issue, so that's what is really driving the Ted Cruzes.