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Monday Night Open Thread

By Jeralyn, Section Blog Related
Posted on Mon Jan 24, 2011 at 09:37:27 PM EST
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The critics hate Harry's Law but viewers are loving it. I like it. Far-fetched? Sure, but so was Ally McBeal and Boston Legal, two of David E. Kelley's other shows. The idea of combining a law office and a designer shoe store in the same space is unlikely to happen in real life, but it sure would be fun.

It's great to have a law show which showcases the human side of defendants and allows the lead character to pontificate against the war on drugs and over-incarceration. It's also very funny and Kathy Bates plays the role perfectly.

It's on tonight, after The Bachelor (you have to change channels though, otherwise you'll end up watching Castle, just another cop show.)

This is an open thread, all topics welcome.

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    I was supposed to be (5.00 / 3) (#1)
    by jeffinalabama on Mon Jan 24, 2011 at 11:08:21 PM EST
    "honored" tonight at a basketball game on campus. Ironically, the PA system didn't work, the AD's photographers didn't show up, and our team lost.

    Oh my, please don't honor me again. I don't know if I could stand it.

    Oh, and the arena, about the size of a high school gym, was LOUD, so I got a headache.

    thank you very much, Jeffinalabama has left the building, ladies and gentlemen...

    Almost 13-yr. old tutoree chose (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by oculus on Tue Jan 25, 2011 at 12:40:33 AM EST
    to read a non-fiction book tonight at tutoring.  And brief me on the plot, detail by detail.  This is good.

    Also, I asked him, what is a Latino/Hispanic.  He sd. he considers himself to be Mexican, as do his friends.  He was born in U.S.  His parents weren't.  Interesting.  We were watching CNN re states attempting to enact AZ-type law.  I asked him what he thought about that.  He sd. he could see both viewpoints!  

    oculus, I've got it! (none / 0) (#3)
    by jeffinalabama on Tue Jan 25, 2011 at 01:37:12 AM EST
    Angel eyes.

    Thank you, Mr. Sinatra.


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    Sweet. I like it. (none / 0) (#27)
    by oculus on Tue Jan 25, 2011 at 12:19:54 PM EST


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    Green and Mean (5.00 / 1) (#11)
    by Capt Howdy on Tue Jan 25, 2011 at 09:49:45 AM EST
    Was Genghis Khan history's greenest conqueror?

    Genghis Khan's Mongol invasion in the 13th and 14th centuries was so vast that it may have been the first instance in history of a single culture causing man-made climate change, according to new research out of the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology, reports Mongabay.com.

    Khan did it the same way he built his empire -- with a high body count.

    Over the course of the century and a half run of the Mongol Empire, about 22 percent of the world's total land area had been conquered and an estimated 40 million people were slaughtered by the horse-driven, bow-wielding hordes. Depopulation over such a large swathe of land meant that countless numbers of cultivated fields eventually returned to forests.
    Castle is NOT just another cop show (none / 0)