Was about the only show I actually made a point of watching every week.

Watched a Grey's Anatomy once. Never tuned in again. As to The Shield, I was out of there after the first episode when Vic killed the cop. Didn't need to watch that week after week to know that there would never be a time when I wouldn't despise him.

But, the central premise of your review stands up. I had to rent a Ford recently, and I couldn't believe how uncomfortable it was to drive.

Seriously, I thought they were being kind of sarcastic.

She knows how to keep talkin' and talkin' and stringin' the words right along, there, and, oh gosh, fillin' the space between words with more talkin' almost like she's sayin' somethin' that means something, and talking.

That, and this shot is no accident. It's too perfectly composed. The camera operator knew exactly what they were doing.

I haven't seen it, and know nothing about the book, but I have seen the trailer for it.

I did, however, just see "Let the Right One In," and this movie seems to me like it can only be stupidly silly in comparison, with its oh so cute bloodless vampire who is, ooooooh, so strong yet gentle and sensitive. He's so dreamy.

Blecch. That story takes some skill in the telling. This just sounds like Harlequin Romance tripe.

This is even more proof, if any was required, that Missouri, and America as a whole, remains a deeply center-right to far-right to extreme-right aligned country, and Obama better not try any Marxist commie liberal stuff. No health care for anyone! Not an aspirin, not a band-aid. Nothing for no one! More billions for Iraq! Paid for by lower taxes on the rich!

(He said, hoping the sarcasm and contempt would be apparent.)

It would have been possible to introduce the new women to the cast without the obligatory knock to the current cast. Escpecially when the jabs are unwarranted.

Kristen Wiig is brilliant.

As others have pointed out, she often invests her characters with depth far beyond what the sketch would call for. I am serious. She is very very good. Like, Peter Sellers in Dr. Strangelove good.

I have spoken.

SARAH!

Oh my God! I can't believe it! Is this... are you God?

I Am. I Am.

Is this about the doors? Are you here to tell me to run for Senate, and then president, also?

Not even close. I'm here to tell you that I have you down for a nice waitress gig at Denny's

Waitress! But I thought you had a special plan for me!

I do. You'll be employee of the month so many times in a row they'll give you a permanent plaque in the reception area.

I think I'd rather be president.

SILENCE! I am the lord, thy God, and you shall have no other before me. You're down for the waitress gig and that's that. Did I mention the graveyard shift? But take heart, Sarah, for I do have a special task to appoint you in these troubled times.

What is it?

In your spare time, you will lead the fight to stop killing wolves from helicopters. Seriously, I, your God, want human beings to knock that shit off. That is my plan for you, save the wolves. Do not fail me. Farewell, Sarah Palin.

God leaves, Todd Palin enters. "Who were you talking to."

"Oh, nothing. No one. God was just here. Turns out he's a Marxist gun hater."

At this point, Sarah Palin is a hot air balloon that is nearly flat and deflated on the ground. I like it that way. Let her lose all her unfair, unearned inertia. When/if she runs again, it should be from a total zero point, a completely deflated hot air balloon.

By golly, she's gonna try and pick herself up, you know, and pump hot air right in there, in that bag thing where the air goes, but we don't have to help her. Let her huff and puff all on her own. We're not obliged to comment on it, which is only us putting air in and makes her seem like she's something when we know for a fact she is a nothing. There's no reason we should help Palin rear her head into our airspace.

Let's spend the next few years turning this country around. Let her sit up there in her rapidly thawing permafrost and bloviate to the moose.

Sign me, Totally Bored with Palin

Nequals, you're not the only one who feels as you do. I am excited by Obama because — after the outright wrongness of the past eight years, and the build up to the wrongness in the previous six — ah, hell lets just go back to Reagan. It's all prelude to where we are now — I think Obama is a necessary first step to restoring even a semblance of sanity. It's baby steps, sure, but still signs of progress.

It's important to remember that a large portion of the country is still completely insane. It's going to take time, lots and lots of time, to bring them along into the 21st century. Baby steps. Maybe they're only baby steps, but at least we're up now and toddling around a bit.

Any Republican uttering those words should be taken out and shot. Fiscal conservative. The words have no meaning anymore. It's just something they keep saying, while at the same time saying yes to endless wars, wasteful healthcare policies and allowing their man Bush to borrow us into debt for decades to come.

Yet let a liberal try to fill a goddamn pothole, and they squawk like throttled chickens.

They are truly disgusting, these diehard blowhards.