Tomorrow, Mitt Romney gives his much-heralded speech on his Mormon faith and his presidential candidacy. Mind you, I am not a political pundit and don’t play one on TV, but I’m interested (and cynical) enough to have a few questions: * To what extent was Romney “forced” to make the speech? I’m not denying that [...]

Keeping the posts brief for now due to numerous year-end deadlines, but a couple interesting strike tidbits this morning. First (this via TV Decoder at the NY Times), someone at the AP with a better eye for numbers than mine has assessed the studios’ latest proposal and the writers’ counterproposal and concluded that the two [...]

My shameless bit of boasting about the season 5 Wire screeners HBO just sent out seems to have struck a nerve. Maybe we need to have a mini Wire Discussion Group to get us limbered up before the series returns on January 6. In the meantime, this HBO preview that gives the slightest taste of [...]