Jim Evans

I’m a huge fan of Ray Porter as a narrator. Can’t say enough good things about his work. I’ll plug Brian Troxell here too, but only because he was my college roommate and I’m a supportive fellow.

So, so many time.

Seriously though, Rob Lowe, Martin Sheen, Richard Schiff, Bradley Whitford, Janel Moloney, all so generous with their time. Joshua Malina, I’d been a fan of even before The West Wing (SportsNight was too good for TV). Man, it’s time for a West Wing rewatch.

Over the years, I’ve met most of the principal cast of The West Wing (though not John Spencer [RIP], and, to my great dismay, Allison Janney). They’ve been uniformly lovely. But my fave was Emily Procter, because of a story that’s too long to chronicle here.

Follow them here on Bluesky too @ppfa.org

Folks, please put the TL;DR section at the start of the thing I’m not going to read because it’s too long.

Besides, you should be doing it anyhow, regardless of your relationship status. Go ahead and help destigmatize visits to PP for reproductive health care.

Do it even if you’re in a committed, long-term, monogamous relationship. Yes, even if you’re a man. Even if you’re married and aren’t seeing someone outside your marriage. Even if you’re celibate. Do it anyway. It lets PP fund other reproductive health care, especially for those who can’t afford it.

People occasionally ask me what they can do for resistance. Here’s a small thing: Go to your local Planned Parenthood and get an STI (sexually transmitted infection) panel. Let them charge you (or bill your insurance) for it, if you can afford it.

I’m just pleased that the author used the correct, but often misstated, “champing at the bit.”

True confession time. Going back to the Maguire novel, in my head, I read the character name Elphaba as pronounced “el-FAH-bah” as opposed to the apparently correct “EL-fuh-buh”.

Able Archer ‘83 was arguably the closest we’ve ever been to nuclear war (yes, even closer than the Cuban Missile Crisis).

In today’s heightened tensions in international relations, particularly between the U.S. and Russia, Hollywood is missing a huge opportunity to make a cautionary tale via a big budget drama about Able Archer ‘83.

I don’t make the rules…

Some states do, in fact, require a special election to fill the vacancy, but it is not constitutionally required, and Florida is not one of them.

This is consistent with laws in some other states as well, and is consistent with the 17th Amendment, which authorized direct election of Senators by a state’s electorate (prior to that amendment, Senators were elected by state legislatures.

Florida law gives the Governor the ability to appoint a replacement to serve until the next general election, which would be November 2026, at which point, the winner would serve the remaining two years of Rubio’s term. Rubio was reelected in 2022 to a six year term, to face reelection in 2028.

For reference, I’m old enough to have watched Nixon’s Oval Office address announcing his resignation, but not old enough to have understood the context.

Today marks another link in the chain of history. The redcaps (cf. “brownshirts”) are once again certified to hold power. Is this what it’s like to have lived through something historically unpleasant, like Watergate? I’m not a historian, but I can’t help but wonder how the story will be told.

Good authors borrow. Great authors steal.

Loki

Why is nobody talking about how Shamsud-Din Jabbar came from a place with sick and cruel extremist beliefs inimical to American values, a place that poses a constant threat to our freedoms

Arnold’s T Shirt… “I didn’t vote for the McFelon (using Micky Ds Golden Arches).

This is my nomenclature of choice now. 😉🤣

Yeah, but following President Biden’s lead (per Woodward in “War”), we can still refer to Trump as “That Fucking Asshole,” right? I kinda think we need a ruling on this.

My brilliant husband @jimevans.bsky.social is going to be on here discussing Selenium 😍🥰 6:00pm est #geek

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Today was the day that two of my worlds collided. I’ve read (and admired for historical perspective) posts @kevinmkruse.bsky.social since The Bad Place. Today, he quote-posted my beautiful bride. I’m not quite sure how to react to this turn of events.

Now, even as I’ve said this, Strange New Worlds is also, frankly, the closest thing to the original series I’ve seen from the Trek franchise. So you should be watching that too.

In fact, the whole execution of this week’s episode was a thing of beauty. One of the greatest takes on a “multiverse” I’ve ever seen.

Like, for example, having Andrew Robinson and Alexander Siddig voicing variants of Garak and Dr. Bashier, respectively, in this weeks episode was, quite simply, brilliance.