Lost is done.  Good riddance. I'm not a Hater, but that show and I weren't made for each other.  I liked this season best.   All my complaints circle around how the writers had to yank the characters around both physically and emotionally in order to work the story. I honestly think the writers should have expressly made it a characteristic of the Island:  In the first few episodes anyone survivor who answers a question directly should be immediately devoured by the smoke monster.  Then, for the rest of the show, the characters' miserable communications could have been explained away as an intentional defense against the smoke.  

In the first season, any time two groups of people met and didn't exchange people or otherwise split up needlessly, the lot of them would be flung by some mysterious force into the ocean, forcing them to swim back.    The writers then would have had a tidy explanation for the logistical hoops they made their characters jump through. 

Finally, early in the season they should have discovered that the Dharma Rations were laced with some drug that makes people irrational and bi-polar. 

Anyhow.. not to dis the show. It was remarkable, and successfully ambitious.  Bravo.

I don't post politics much no more, partly because I can't find anyone worth rooting for. The Republicans (for many years now) have behaved like unprincipled opportunists.  This corner post shows was good though, for many reasons.

We who live in the 21st century West have the least messy, least dangerous, least uncertain lives of any human beings in history. We should be very grateful for that, but we should not let our good fortune utterly distort our expectations of life, and we should not react with unrestrained indignant shock anytime the limitations of our power make themselves seen or the cold and harsh capriciousness of nature overcomes our defenses. We should expect a firm response from the institutions we have built to protect ourselves—science, technology, and modern government—but we cannot expect a perfect response. Not from Bush, and not from Obama.

Let’s hope the administration does a better job in response to this spill than it has so far, just as the Bush administration could certainly have done a better job in its response to Katrina. It’s clear they have made mistakes. But let’s not pretend that what we’re witnessing here is fundamentally a colossal failure of the federal government. There are plenty of those going on, but this isn’t one of them.