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Despite Aaron Sorkin's complacent so-called liberalism, which does unfortunately permeate the stories even more than I had remembered, I still consider Sports Night to have been one of the best-written shows on television. Well cast, well directed. Everything.

As with almost all intelligent shows on commercial broadcast television, this one was short-lived.
(Right now, the wife and I are discovering Freaks & Geeks, which looks like it's going to be another example of this phenomenon, as was My So-Called Life.)

Netflix is one of the many great, life-changing commercial technologies. (Or is it a technological business model?)

Anyway, I think I'll try to report my favorite lines from these shows as I (re)discover them. This is one of my favorites from Sports Night:

[reflecting upon the wording used on a formal invitation]
Casey: "October the Eighth, Nineteen Hundred and Ninety Eight, A.D."
A.D. They're worried I might accidentally show up 2,000 years before the birth of Christ!