re: Brown
IMHO, Brown (be he a bag of shit or not) is exercising the last resort available to him....Nasty or noble, I can appreciate natural survival instincts. I won't deny that his handling of the Katrina situation was less than admirable, but in a weird way I see a sort of moral lesson being played out here...a Bush appointee inevitably fired for incompentence, trying to get his own back through blackmail...I am greedily anticipating more of this in the future.
And...Bill-
I just watched a show on CMT called "Trick My Truck." We saw the "pilot" truck for the show this summer at Walcott. It's pretty awesome...basically every ridiculous thing we could have wanted to do thru IPD put into an hour of good ol' Country Music Television.
It's like "monster garage" and "pimp my ride" put together, only without the engineers and designers, and with more junkyard theatrics.