Dave Pollard's environmental philosophy, creative works, business papers and essays.

trust your instincts

< £ Salon Bloggers & >

	October 2, 2003

NUGGET IN THE WASTELAND I don't watch much network TV. Since the demise of Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night most of my idiot-box time is spent watching movies, British mysteries on the local BBC feed, and documentaries on PBS and TVOntario. Imagine my surprise, then, to find a sharp, stylish, well-written engaging drama in this new and dreadful fall season. The program is called Karen Sisco, and it's loosely based on the book/movie Out of Sight by Elmore Leonard (who's a consultant to the show, which explains the good writing) about the life and work of a female marshall in Miami. The program stars Carla Gugino, and bears some resemblance in pace and style to Miami Vice or even The Rockford Files, but it's much more literate and the lead character is real, human, flawed, credible, three-dimensional. I've just seen the pilot so far, but it's very promising, and has a great supporting cast of character actors. Wednesday nights at 10 on the otherwise horrendous ABC. Elmore also has some good advice for writers. 5:17:18 PM  trackback []  comment []

BUSH SCANDALS - UPDATE There are now two Bush Administration scandals brewing. The deliberate and illegal 'outing' of CIA operative Valerie Plame by an Admin official as revenge for her husband's exposing the Niger arms-to-Iraq story as a fraud. I described this scandal, now dubbed "frog-march" or, in Salon circles "frog-walk", last week. Stay with Different Strings and Emphasis Added for the up-to-date news on this. The blatant grab for taxpayer money, from the billions recently requested by Bush for 'reconstruction' of Iraq, by intimate friends of Bush and Administration insiders, led by a consortium called New Bridge Strategies, which is headed up by -- surprise -- Joseph Allbaugh (pictured above), Bush's campaign manager. New Bridge is overtly advising American corporations how to get the inside track on no-bid contracts, and hence a bigger piece of the pie -- for a fee, of course. Robert's Virtual Soapbox is keeping us up-to-date on this story. 4:01:57 PM  trackback []  comment []

© Copyright 2004 Dave Pollard. Last update: 19/02/2004; 2:53:17 PM.