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New Haven should get it's version of The Wire
Seriously it is at times like this where I wish The Wire would branch out and set up ''franchises'' just like CSI did (with Miami, New York, Vegas). I would love a dramatic show that takes place in the houses of white, black and latino fire fighters, talking about the reverse discrimination case and race relations in New Haven. Another great ...
Posted to Gabfest by lugaru on July 3, 2009
Decline of America: FNLs over The Wire
I loved high school football for the reasons jocks do. But i matured and found that living, or reliving the drama of high school and football are moments in time. They are irrelevant today. What's relevant is the reality of world in which we live right now. And for the average man to grasp the heart of modern America: the city, he must come to ...
Posted to TV Club by Usama3 on February 28, 2009
Friday Night Lights
While I watch and love FNL, I have one quibble about the article. ''Television has previously given us a single family, a school, friends, sisters and brothers, the bar, the corner, law firms, a lane, a ZIP code, even rich men, poor men. But never has television provided such an all-encompassing and realistic portrait of an entire town.'' ...
Posted to Television by andy3590 on April 22, 2008
Munaf and Omar Cont'd
How did the original Latin writ read? If I remember correctly, it was an order to the official holding the prisoner to bring the prisoner before the King's court for disposition. I guess that by Coke's time this routinely meant releasing the prisoner from custody. But need it mean this? Perhaps the District Courts could order their respective ...
Posted to Convictions Archive by bluehorse on March 24, 2008
A New Writ: Please detain me!
How did the original Latin writ read? If I remember correctly, it was an order to the official holding the prisoner to bring the prisoner before the King's court for disposition. I guess that by Coke's time this routinely meant releasing the prisoner from custody. But need it mean this? Perhaps the District Courts could order their respective ...
Posted to Convictions Archive by bluehorse on March 24, 2008
Please Detain Me
How did the original Latin writ read? If I remember correctly, it was an order to the official holding the prisoner to bring the prisoner before the King's court for disposition. I guess that by Coke's time this routinely meant releasing the prisoner from custody. But need it mean this? Perhaps the District Courts could order their respective ...
Posted to Convictions Archive by bluehorse on March 24, 2008
Sex outside of Marriage & Man's Arrogance
I commend Ms Yoffe for tackling a daunting, yet ignored societal crisis. The effects of this crisis are most evident in the social services offices, public schools, juvenile detention centers of America. If one has never visited or taken part there in, one can watch The Wire, Season 4, to get a fictional, yet poignant and masterful portrayal of ...
Posted to The Best Policy by Usama2 on March 20, 2008
Jury nullification
Brilliant post! Thank you, David, for bringing the problem, as well as the means of solving it, to everyone's attention. I am going to spread links to this post as far and wide as I can. I hope other readers will do the same.
Posted to Convictions Archive by Pair0dox on March 19, 2008
Cheese's Execution Speech
Did anyone else find it interesting that when Cheese gave his final speech about how ''there ain't no nostalgia'' he talked about how Prop Joe had his time and Marlo had his time but he never mentioned Avon Barksdale at all (even though Cheese was involved with Stringer in the founding of the Co-op that still endured)? I just found it an ...
Posted to TV Club by UCrawford on March 10, 2008
Why it ended with McNulty
Simon IS McNulty. Landsman's ''elegy'' said all that need be said. Jimmy is uncompromising, devoted to dogged pursuit of the truth, consequences be damned, and as often as not he was damned right back. And I think that's exactly how Simon sees himself (and I for one agree and respect him enormously for his willingness to take so many ...
Posted to TV Club by prau on March 10, 2008

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