Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
On the off chance that anybody here has followed the show (and not just what various pundits say about it when they want to make a point about torture), this season was basically season 3 redux. The similarities were:
1) There were several stories, with several different groups of villains joined only by [...]

I remind Loyal Readers that most fannish media productions come into their own with the second iteration – second season of the television series, second movie. (Firefly is the exception. The extant eleven episodes make a unity that is a genuine artistic achievement.)
Also, Peter Petrelli can fly . . .
I liked some things: that they [...]

By Thoreau
Well, season 6 of 24 is over.  Overall, I can’t say I was terribly fond of it.  I watched it because I still enjoy Kiefer Sutherland’s acting, as well as Mary Lynn Rajskub (when they give her screen time, which wasn’t often this season).  A lot of the reasons that I didn’t like it [...]

By Mona
Now, I have not been a big fan of Jane Hamsher’s, altho I had hissy fits when some on the right gave her shit over the Joe Lieberman blackface incident which, imo, was so not racist and totally on target. (Yeah, like Lee Atwater never lived even when I was voting [...]

By Thoreau
Apparently, European blackbirds have taken to spending winter in cities rather than migrating south for the winter.  But only the male birds.  The female birds still fly south, because the urban males will get violent with a female who gets near their food or shelter.  These male birds are also reaching puberty earlier, meaning [...]

By Mona
Fester at Newshoggers reports that the Pentagon has contingency plans to, among other things, invade Canada. All kinds of war gaming for the most extremely implausible military “need.” Except the most vital:

NPR is reporting that the US military has NO PLAN or planning process in place for a full and [...]