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Actually, "heritage" (preferred) or "nationality" would be more germane. "Ethnicity" implicates a much further sub-categorization than what's being asked (e.g., rooting interest in the World Cup).

Well, if Dick Levy were here still, I would expect the Bills to be drafting his replacement in the 1st round to groom for a year. Then we lose McKelvin, then next year we draft a 1st round CB to groom as a replacement for the guy we drafted this year, et cetera, et cetera. Let's see if Buddy and Chan keep the streak alive!

The headline says Green, the story says Brown. Nice. Reporters seemed smarter back when there were copy editors....

I don't think that's particularly spoiler material. It was shown in the closing-moments preview, and that's always been fair game for discussion, so I'm taking the tag off.... I wonder what he would be doing that for, especially since they just buried him. Is there some way to get Smokey out of Locke's body? As in, possessed Hurley? Like.... Fhurley?

Perhaps, your track record on this board? Many remember the meltdown. Like it or not, you have to play it cleaner than anyone else. Might do everyone good at this time of year to add a dose of humbleness to our posts... in the Mid-Westerner "Don't think you're important because you're not" mindset. Nothing you write is going to change the Bills' FO plan. Grown-ups accept that.

Don't paint all "Americans" with this same brush. It was one dude that wrote this. You could probably count on one hand the number of people who were "offended" by a country actually liking itself.

Here's their real plans. Had to go to web archive to find them. Sneaky Canucks! Canadian World Domination Here's a map of their planned conquests.

Screw photovoltaic! How about photosynthetic energy to power your home someday... using a bottle of water? This stuff may be in the hype/questionable mass market stage, but it's an awesome display of American entrepreneurship.

Except with Russ, it'll be a gypsy bankroll. "Hey, this is Monopoly money!" What does this even mean anymore? The salary cap is effectively dead.

I'm not at all concerned about the Temple being destroyed. How many times have we seen some structure or other on the Island, not learned too much about it & what it does, then it gets destroyed? Yet, every season finale has ultimately ended with shock and awe. Pretty much every season has started out like this. Time seems to drag on in one of these buildings / storylines. On the beach before exploration, The hatch and the tailies' story, the Hydra station captivity, the O6 back-stories.... It does pick up steam after these places/lines are left. I expect it to start with the Ilana group coming back into the picture. As we know, the next ep is going to be Ben-centric, titled, "Dr. Linus." And before I stopped looking at spoiler bits, it was divulged that ep 9 is going to be Richard-centric and judging from the casting, it will go into his backstory. And his backstory is heavy on the "back" part. We've been given many of the puzzle pieces, and while we don't know what it's all working out to, or how they fit together, once we see the picture on the front of the box, it'll make sense. I hope.

Doc Jensen's "Sundown" recap: "The Measure of the Man"

The only thing different is more media with a 24/7 cycle wanting to create something to worry about, and for people to watch. And maybe it'll start another donation-a-thon so everybody can get their cut.

And yet, when Blagojevich so much as said he was looking for favors for Barry's Senate seat, he goes to pokey. When you do this --- and actually follow through --- in DC, and you can operate in broad daylight with no shame.

Not that Dogen really told us much, himself.... The thoughts about the sideways flashes are intriguing. I'm just wondering how Locke was able to make a deal... seeing as he was dead. But it's worth consideration. I think Sayid's deal may be a separate issue from the Jughead-reset. Some theories say that the '77 version of the Losties merged into their actual '77 off-island bodies. And that this is the explanation of Jack's sudden fit and appendix rupture --- it was the consciousness becoming one (even if subliminal) and uploading the older Jack's memories into original Jack. That, then, is the reason behind the changes in the sideways flashes. I don't like sunny-side up. Way too runny. I'm a poached or over-easy kind of guy.

If it helps anything, the casting material said that Mysterious Kid is 12-14, has intense, penetrating eyes and "has survived a horrible family accident." Just don't know enough about him yet to guess with any accuracy.

Lots of action in this ep, which kind of makes commentary shorter.... An obligatory Jack hallway pass-by. Recurrent story of healing people off-island, yet with Jacob/etc. "exacting a heavy price." Juliet arranged for her sister's cancer to be cured, which came at the price of never seeing her again (tho, Juliet was not specifically told this). Now, Dogen's story about his son being revived from an apparent drunk-driving wreck. They fight, then Dogen arranges for Sayid to piss off MIB by "stabbing" him. On the other end of this exchange, MIB/Flocke is offering the contents of the magic box... whatever one wants most in the world, all for the low, low price of a couple of killings. Not sure if we're supposed to be drawing a parallel b/w the killings. Omar/Keamy are extortion artists (Keamy with quite a fondness for eggs. Hmm. I would've pegged him as a Jimmy Dean sausage kinda guy) who get theirs, as old island connections show up in the Jughead-altered sideways flash. Then, in the original 2007 timeline, Sayid kills Dogen and Lennon, representatives of something of an extortion artist himself (?), Jacob. Sayid set his brother up with Nadia in the sideways flash, even tho he still has feelings for her. Again, Sayid bails his brother out of trouble. Per the early entry on Lostpedia's rundown: Is this somehow connected in with the scale in the cave? Or wait. For every man (woman?) there is a scale? So, each candidate has a scale somewhere?. Hmm. The Claire-Kate interaction wasn't much like what last week's ep suggested. Kate only had 2 minutes, and seemed to sway over Claire that she did the right thing, given the givens. And so, a bunch of Temple-dwellers, including Cindy with the kids, trade allegiance to Flocke in exchange for their safety. Cue a curious look from Flocke when he sees a confused/bewildered in a "What the hell am I getting myself into?" Kate come out of the Temple with Claire. He seems to have doubts there. Ominous music there. Cuse and Lindelof said we should have a pretty good idea which direction everything is headed by the end of ep 6, but I must confess that even with the parameters of the predicted "war" it's anybody's guess whose side most of the Losties will ultimately be on. Ilana, Ben, Miles, Lapidis & Sun hide behind the Omega-like symbol in the hallway, and avoid the smoke monster. Jin is in the fridge in the kitchen. Likely that he borrowed the $ in the baggage from Keamy.... just a question of how he got out of customs, and where is Sun?

Yep. De-pants him because he's saying there's an 800-pound elephant in the room that few others dare talk about. Yet when it's the opposite situation (e.g. the initial reporting of the Duke lacrosse rape case) that's the only time anyone can discuss racial violence, and then we can all pretend that it's only one-way. Cool.

Maybe it was the "fried chicken" sign. Or did that do it for you? Paging Fuzzy Zoeller. Fuzzy Zoeller, please pick up the nearest white courtesy phone. Seriously, tho, crime under-reporting is a big problem in minority communities, e.g. the controversies about "NO SNITCHING" T-shirts. Some people associate police/courts catching and convicting people of their same skin-tone as bad for their skin color's image, even if they believe/know the person is guilty. Some people are just afraid... and rightly so... of reprisals if they do come forward. And for some people, they just don't want to miss a minute of "American Idol" while IDing perps at the station. These excuses, btw, go for all "races."

Woo hoo! A cool $20M (and you know it's going to be 10 times that) for a view. Thanks for spending our money wisely, NY --- as ever!

Keep it up and you guys might be able to watch the finale in sequence. My brother and s-i-l (now ex-s-i-l) watched the DVDs almost straight through over a couple of rainy weekends. >"Think we should load the dishwasher?" >>"Nah. Next disk." I can dig this viewing style. A lot of people prefer it over waiting week by week by week. What stinks for the show is that the numbers of people viewing in different ways (DVR, streaming, ABC archives, DVDs/Netflix) isn't really reflected in the Nielsens. Dank, "... Looking Glass" was the best ep (I have a heart of stone. I don't cry. And yet, I was tearing when that character died/sacrificed himself). Donkey Wheel was the best scene.

Haven't you heard? A democracy doesn't require its citizens' participation. Everything just takes care of itself.

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He could always pimp out Mary Jane....

Yep. So much happening in that ep. And to get even more detailed... Frozen Donkey Wheel = BEST SCENE OF TV EVER. The anticipation, the mis-en-scene / props, the musical score (which was just phenomenal throughout the series), Michael Emerson....