Favorite quote of the day: His [Bush's] campaign caps an eight-year Republican struggle to get rid of a president who was willing to keep his grip on power by staying just within the letter of the law. No matter who wins Florida, we've elected another.

How true.... (my thought on Dubya has always been, the Republicans liked Clinton so much they had to get one of their very own....)

I found, as always, Slate's Everyday Economics article fascinating. There is definitely a part of me that wishes I took economics courses in college -- or perhaps that's why I enjoy reading Slate's columns on pop economics so much, since I didn't take the courses, like my friend who enjoys reading pop physics books.

And I think there's some truth to the article -- I'm still single, and nearly thirty, but don't have nearly the pressure that I would if I had as strong a biological clock as women do... I think men still have biological clocks -- since none of us are immortal, after all, but it's not the same, certainly....

I suppose it was a matter of time that O.J. sounds off on Florida ballot convoy

That's it, we're heading towards the end times....

Oh cool, according to Laurel's TV Picks, Spinal Tap is going to be on Letterman tonight (as well as Gov. Ventura, again...). Now if only I remember to watch it. I picked up the Spinal Tap DVD fairly recently, and watched it with the hysterical commentary track with the band, all done in character, of course. It's definitely worth checking out.

She's also right about how great this stretch of Babylon 5 is -- I think the end of Season 2 is as good as the series ever got. (The end of Season 3 is also fantastic.) I haven't been reliably watching the Sci-Fi repeats -- I don't always get home in time, and I'm not always in the mood to watch any tv right when I get home. I'm not retaping the series in widescreen either, because I'm counting that they'll release the whole series on DVD.

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(and people wonder why I've tended to avoid Linux...)

Morris Barry, who directed one of my favorite Doctor Who stories, The Tomb of the Cybermen recently passed away. Since he introduced the video release in the early 1990s, I recognized him and he was less anonymous than many of the other directors of the series.

One of the saddest things about being a Doctor Who fan these days is that more and more of the people involved with the TV series are passing on and getting older. And there aren't really quite the new faces to replace them --- while the book authors have moved on to some other high profile things, except for League of Gentlemen, most of them don't make it over here.

Today's Nostalgia Site

Yet another Doctor Who Movie rumor. Don't believe any of them -- until cameras start rolling. It's like clockwork -- every six months, like magic.

Or, keep the faith at Outpost Gallifrey, which is definitely the best Doctor Who site out there, and is very good about reporting the real news about the series.

And I think a movie series is really the wrong way to go with something like Doctor Who, which works best not as the Big Epics that a movie series requires, but as smaller scale stories, without loads and loads of series mythology.

And following up on the truth about FOX, a nice little happy partisan article on Slate (and worldview affirming) article about why the GOP is Mad as Hell

I joked about the FOX news claims of being "fair and balanced" a couple of days ago, and Slate has an article about the news channel as well saying that we shouldn't really care about whether it's biased or not.

I agree to the point that there's no problem with listening to biased sources -- in fact, I believe that it's impossible for a news source to be completely unbiased, and it's worthwhile trying to get in multiple points of view because of it. I don't really believe that there is a far-left monopoly in the media though -- and I think FOX, if anything, reinforces my belief in the opposite direction. I do think it's a problem if we have all of the left-leaning folks listening to NPR and watching CNN and all of the right-leaning folks listening to Rush Limbaugh and watching FOX News, however, as we'll increasingly not only disagree on issues, but will share even less and less of a vocabulary on items.

I think the one positive thing about the media explosion in the internet era is that there are a multitude of voices -- but I think it's a challenge for us to focus on multiple signals, not just the ones that reinforce our world view. I know I don't always succeed -- but it's a long term challenge, and probably a better thing to have too much, and not enough, given a filter.

And following up on my purchase of the Bond set, I made it my MISFITS Video Pick.

Oh, I also finally found the X-Men Easter Eggs I mentioned earlier. Not anything major, but still fun to find.

I watched Live and Let Die from my new James Bond set last night with some friends. I hadn't seen the whole thing in a while, just bits and pieces of it. I have very strong memories of the movie as a child, as all of the voodoo elements really terrified me at the end. It's a bit of a dodgy film racially though -- no one expects (or wants) James Bond to be politically correct, but I wasn't sure about this one at all. It's sort of The Talons of Weng-Chiang of Bond films, for those of you familiar with your Doctor Who.

Today's been pretty much the sleep day as the Thanksgiving weekend comes to its conclusion. It was a bit unusual for me to stay in town for the weekend -- I went to Chicago over the Thanksgiving weekend for many years because there was a big Doctor Who convention there, and then a bunch of friends and I went there last year. This year, despite a smaller convention taking place in Chicago, I took a pass on it because the group of people I normally go to conventions with didn't go either.

Felicity linked to my new location here. Anyone else who links to me, please let me know by sending me e-mail....