Please take a minute today to honor the sacrifices of our servicemen and women.  And while you're at it, help support our troops by visiting The Bob Woodruff Foundation's ReMIND.org (or if you're a Twitter user, visit tweettoremind.org).

From the ReMIND.org website:
"The Bob Woodruff Foundation provides resources and support to service members, ( Read more... )

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, or Hanukah if you're Jewish (It's day five, right?), or if you don't celebrate at all, then happy Thursday!!!  Okay, last episode, and this is going to be short and sweet -- not because I don't like this ep -- mostly because I have plans to go see Marley & Me with friends at 9 and I can't be late.  So, on ( Read more... )

I have had a bit too much family togetherness this evening.  Thank goodness it's tradition for my family to celebrate on Christmas Eve because guess what I have to do tomorrow?  Absolutely nothing!  Yay!  I'm going to sleep in for the first time in a long time!  I'm so tired that I almost didn't watch tonight's episode, but then I thought to myself ( Read more... )

I'm running a little late, but it's not midnight here yet, so I'm technically still on schedule.  Up next:

Bartlet For America (Ep. 3.10)
Written by:  Aaron Sorkin
Directed by:  Thomas Schlamme

Episode Description (from NBC):
While the White House is festooned with Christmas finery, Leo (John Spencer) fears the worst when he testifies in the ( Read more... )

My West Wing Christmas Viewing Spectacular continues tonight with:

Noel (Ep. 2.10)
Teleplay by:  Aaron Sorkin
Story by:  Peter Parnell
Directed by:  Thomas Schlamme

Episode Description (from NBC):
Christmas draws near as an unstable Josh (Bradley Whitford) is ordered by Leo (John Spencer) to consult with a doctor who specializes in analyzing trauma ( Read more... )

After Hurricane Ike hit, Pam and Warren Adams' house was the only one left standing on the Gulf Coast side of Gilchrist, TX.  Most of you probably saw the pictures -- they were all over the news, and I posted some links to various photo galleries the week after Ike -- a single yellow house on wooden piers surrounded by nothing but devastation. ( Read more... )

Okay, here we go.  Five Christmas episodes in five days, in order, starting with:

In Excelsis Deo (Ep. 1:10)
Written by:  Aaron Sorkin and Rick Cleveland
Directed by:  Alex Graves

Episode Description (from NBC):
As Christmas Eve approaches, President Bartlet (Martin Sheen) eagerly sneaks out of the White House for some last-minute Christmas shopping, ( Read more... )

Seriously.  I have attended no less than five Christmas parties over the last three weekends (including two in one night last Saturday).  I have never been so glad that it's the last weekend before Christmas.  My neighbor down the street had a get-together tonight.  I left early.  Watching drunk people sing karaoke off key is not my idea of holiday ( Read more... )

Read a transcript of the Declaration of Independence at the National Archives.  Have a fantastic Fourth of July!