The Morning After: It May Be the Whiskey Talking…

“Spare Change”: Two tollbooth attendants trying to adjust in a world of EZ Pass and one-way Verazzano tolls. A very special episode re-enacts the scene from Saturday Night Fever.

“Welcome Back, Cutters”: Randy Quaid stars in this dramedy about former bicycle racers who are now just as competitive 300 feet below Manhattan as sandhogs.

“My own reasons for speaking out on this issue are fairly simple. I didn’t choose it; it chose me. Upon being hired to act the part of a post-9/11 NYC firefighter on Rescue Me, my research for the character led me to take a more objective look at what actually happened versus what we were told in the wake of the event. Nothing added up. No matter from which angle I approached 911, it invariably unraveled into contradictions and inconsistencies requiring the suspension of my logic and common sense in addition to several laws of physics. Slowly I came to the determination that I had no choice but to speak out, because (as Franco Rivera) I presume to represent the memories of the heroes who died that day, as well as the reality of the heroes who still mourn their loss. I work with these men; looking them daily in the eye. Therefore it is a citizen’s act of moral conscience and social responsibility, nothing more. To know or even to merely suspect, and yet remain silent, would be anti-American, unpatriotic, and tantamount to betrayal. Therefore this is no stunt on my part to gain publicity or to garner attention for myself by appearing edgy and controversial. Believe it or not, I rather covet my relative anonymity as a quasi-celebrity/working actor. I would much rather direct media and public attention to those most credible dissenting experts who have looked at and analyzed the facts (circumstantial as well as forensic) and found that they do not fit the government’s theory of conspiracy. People like Professor Emeritus David Ray Griffin, Richard Gage (AIA), Physics Professor Steven Jones (co-author of the above mentioned peer reviewed study proving that explosives were in fact used to implode the WTC towers as well as WTC 7), William Christison (former CIA Station Chief and Director of Regional and Political Analysis), Ray McGovern (27 year CIA vet., and former Chair of National Intelligence Estimates), Coleen Rowley (former F.B.I. Special Agent and Minneapolis Division Counsel), and Sibel Edmonds must be given fair and open forums on mainstream media platforms, as well as access to those with the power and responsibility to reopen the 9/11 investigation; or rather, to finally conduct one as the case may be. Until that happens we will not be silent. We will not go away. We will not submit.”

- Daniel Sunjata

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2009/05/05/we-will-not-submit/

I happened to be watching the latest episode when I read your post–and I had been thinking, “Here we go again–Tommy’s drinking again, Tommy’s drunk and confronting people (dead and alive) again, Tommy’s rehashing his issues again, everyone’s mad/disgusted with Tommy AGAIN.” Honestly, does anyone ever grow on this show? Or even just move on? Why do all of these people continue to stick by Tommy, year after year, disappointment after disappointment, selfish move after selfish move? It doesn’t seem very believable at this point.

That said, I did enjoy the twist re Colleen in this episode. But, if this incident doesn’t precipitate some significant change, then what’s the point (it’ll be interesting to see if people are angry with him next week, as would certainly be the case in real life)? And even if things do change (Tommy quits drinking … again), the show would have to be on for several more seasons before we could believe that the change is for real, as he’s quit and then resumed drinking repeatedly. Overall, it’s really getting old.