Fun Fan Fiction Flaunts its Fickle Face Flagrantly.

I loved Cumberbach as William Pitt the Younger in "Amazing Grace," and he's perfect for Sherlock. Only wish the series had more episodes; I've seen the few they released on PBS endlessly repeated. I'm glad to hear that there will soon be more.

We DO need a leaner and meaner military. But bloated and overextended as it is, US military expenditures are a drop in the bucket when looking for the causes of our $15.2 national debt. The massive metasic growth of entitlement spending has a moral component which transcends mere economic considerations. Maggie Thatcher was right: socialism is doomed to failure, not just because it doesn't work, but because it is immoral, and creates an amoral populace who have no problems with using the social safety net as a permanent hammock.

Government programs which proactively work against the interest of intact families destroy the framework upon which economic recovery and expansion must rely.

The surprise strength of Rick Santorum shows that the gap between social and economic conservatives is a lot narrower than the Lamestream and the Ronulans would have you believe.

Both true economic and social conservatives base their convictions on the inherent rights of the individual against the claims of an expansionist state. The same overreaching state which claims the power to redefine just who is recognized as a human person entitled to legal protection, or to adjust the definition of what constitutes a family, is a state which feels entitled to tell you when "you've made enough money."

What's depressing here is watching Bachman and Perry engaging in exactly the kind of mutually-destructive rhetoric which will be used by hacks like Mark Duell to pummel the eventual winner. The media wants to turn the GOP primaries into a prolonged knife-fight in a rubber boat. And sadly, most of the candidates are complying in tearing each other down.

I will vote for the inevitable winner of the GOP primary, even if, as VodkaPundit puts it, the eventual winner is
"The ghost of Richard Nixon running on the platform of: 'BRAAIINNSS!!; Because even Zombie Nixon would be an improvement over the current occupant of the White House."

I would remind every one of these candidates that one of them will eventually be running against Obama, and every smear made in the primaries will be resurrected in an Obama ad.

Fallon cements his standing with the Smirking Class.

Emerging to "Speak Truth to Power" before going home to his gated community.

Actually, Hell does. As CS Lewis noted, the doors lock from the inside, and the damned are in the process of building their own cells.

Thanks for the link; Harmon is a true mensch for clarifying that for Oxford's daughter.
It also points to the fact that Hollywood, like Washington DC, is really a sausage factory that grinds up good material via committee.
The perversion of logic which messed up Harmon's movie script is similar to that which messes up the rest of the entertainment industry. It is also what messes up the Beltway.
Politicians primary focus is getting re-elected; writers for television series primarily focus on keeping their series on the air. Telling a good story degenerates into keeping the story going long beyond making any coherent point, by constantly introducing novelties to the plot. What were once "Whoa! I didn't see THAT coming!" devices become monotonous conventions.
The creepy preacher from "The Night of the Hunter" was a novel concept in 1955; when a clergyman or overtly religious person is introduced on screen today, we wait for the predictable shoe to drop revealing his hypocrisy or evil intent.
The point of good writing is to make a strong point as quickly and clearly, without bludgeoning the reader with superfluous rhetoric. This is the antithesis of Hollywood storytelling.

Gun control laws make for an ever-growing government, and ever-smaller citizens.