< cynic >Your point?< /cynic >

The closest thing we have to Paddy Chayevsky is probably Aaron Sorkin, and even so, that admonition goes in one ear and out the other. Because that branch of the media is pervasive, seductive, and omnipresent.

But if I keep talking about it, I'll just get shrill.
D. Potter | Homepage | 10.05.08 - 9:50 pm | #

Also: I am as much a sucker for I-am-Spartacus moments as anyone, but y'know? They don't happen in real life.
D. Potter | Homepage | 10.05.08 - 9:58 pm | #

I've had the pleasure of seeing two such moments in my life, though not on as grand a scale.
littlest hussein gator | Homepage | 10.05.08 - 10:19 pm | #

Oh, please, can you say more? (We can take the "hungering for validity" as read.)
D. Potter | Homepage | 10.06.08 - 8:36 am | #

Sorry for the OT, but apparently the big-shots at Lehman were stealing the silverware for themselves on the way out as Lehman was going down:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ 20081...meltdown_lehman

-Seitan Worshiper
Anonymous | 10.06.08 - 11:11 am | #

Anon: All the smart money on the street already grabbed their nuts and ran for Greenwich CT weeks ago. :/
Pierce Nichols | 10.07.08 - 9:45 am | #