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...George W. Bush may be a global-warming flat-earther, but Al Gore isn't quite the planet's knight in shining armor. He may be a deeply concerned environmentalist, but that doesn't mean he's about to do anything as politically risky as telling Americans the truth about global warming and what they'll have to do if they want to leave behind a comfortable planet for their grandchildren's grandchildren. Instead, the Clinton administration has prattled on sunnily about business-driven solutions in which everybody gets to maintain their current lifestyles, while Detroit miraculously comes up with...
...self-immolation and Bob Livingston's scandal-plagued, 32-day stay as Speaker-designate, congressional Republicans needed a Speaker with an aversion to open microphones and a private life cleaner than soap. They wanted the Anti-Newt, and Hastert--a beefy, obscure, seven-term Congressman from Illinois--was their knight in a husky gray suit. He quickly put his stamp on the office by delivering part of his acceptance speech from the floor of the House. "My legislative home is here on the floor with you," he told the chamber. "And so is my heart...
...Nothing is set, but I'm working on a screenplay, it looks like I'll be working on a screenplay with Frank Miller, who wrote the Dark Knight Returns, we'll see what happens. But we haven't started working on it, we haven't even started thinking about it, the deal's not done. Right now I'm also working on an original new science-fiction film. I've been working on it for ten months, it's untitled, and I'm going to push everything forward, and see what comes out first...
There are problems, of course, with this approach. Should Beijing win the 2008 games, it's hard to imagine a local show making fun of the Beijing authorities the way commentators have made fun of Michael Knight, the state's Olympics Minister. One declared that Knight "had put his testicles on the wire--to use a meteorological term--that the weather will be fine for the opening ceremonies...
Until then, Ewing's big shoes will be filled by below average backups Travis Knight and Vlad Stepania. They will be enough to make even the fickle New York press long for Ewing's presence. Heck, it'll be enough to make them long for Walt Bellamy...