I will confess, I found the entire 6th Season indecently bad. But for those worried that the FCC’s indecency craze will wipe out hot Vampire/Slayer sex in reruns, you may take comfort from the FCC decision located (in PDF) here. For those interested in the FCC tea leaves, I observe it’s a 5-0 decision. Copps and Martin, the most aggressive on indency, appear happy with the idea that suggestive television does not rise to the level of indecency.
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Harold’s Tweets
Load More...The Bush-Obama transition also reflected well on Obama team, which abided by the one-president-at-a-time rule despite the world economy crashing about them. This book on 43-44 model transition should be required for all outgoing/incoming administrations https://jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu/title/oath https://twitter.com/MattGlassman312/status/1334928469633929217
This, although I do think the Clinton transition out was legitimately bad and worth looking down upon.
The gold standard for partisan transition is Bush 2008, by all accounts a professional and seamless transfer that benefited Obama and reflects well on W. https://twitter.com/kdbyproxy/status/1334927873979920387So looked at the Ligado language from the NDAA. Short version, not only is this not a "Ligado killer," it's not even a grazing wound. But while Ligado dodged a bullet, GPS still has a gun. OTOH, if GPS can't win on their home turf . . . /1
This is a critical reason Boomers and Millenials have so much trouble understanding each other's world view. For Boomers, economic stability is the norm and the modern econ precarious world=betrayal. Millennials, can't imagine anything else.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/21473579/millennials-great-recession-burnout-anne-helen-petersenNew Benton paper with @jordanearnold https://twitter.com/jordanearnold/status/1334572800544268289
A report I wrote with @JonSallet was published by @Benton_Inst! We explore examples of open-access, middle-mile networks in the US. These kinds of networks can have a huge impact, sometimes dramatically lowering the cost of building broadband infrastructure in rural America.
I remember that episode and was somewhat shocked — because watching Buffy was a family ritual. It remains the only show, now that I think about it, that my entire family (wife and three children) all regularly watched together.
Younger daughter would have been about 12 or 13 when Spike and Buffy were doing their besotted grappling. So that got a little awkward, kinda.
But in general the whole show was so good, and so much fun that it actually did us a service, because it gave us a chance to talk with our daughters about the situation that Buffy was in. And how sometimes women– even smart, competent women– find themselves in relationships that are based on power and sex rather than any natural afinity.
Actually, maybe I’ll write a Wetmachine entry on Buffy. I was about to summarize some remarks I made when I was on a Buffy panel at Arisia, but I think they’re too long to fit here. . . and I’m too lazy to write them now.