and so much more.
Netflix instant has all 22 episodes of the lamented Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. ( where Sorkin went after West Wing )
Sarah Paulson (Harriett) Matthew Perry (Matt)
Harriet: I got a laugh at the table read when I asked for the butter in the dinner sketch. I didn’t get it at the dress. What did I do wrong?
Matt: You asked for the laugh.
Harriet: What did I do at the table read?
Matt: You asked for the butter.
First eight or nine episodes some of the best television ever. ( then something happened and in some ways it became erratic and sometimes much less - i.e. better than 90% of what was still on after it was cancelled )
Sports Night level good.
And the World According to Jim ran for 127 seasons ( or at least it seemed that long )
Maybe democracy ... oh, nevermind ...
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
