S02E08 – A Disguise for the Good Meat

We watch season 2, episode 8 of The West Wing ("Shibboleth").

We talk about how much Elise spends on knives, piece together this eps extremely subtle Thanksgiving parable, and learn some new words.

Links:

• Angela Landsbury - Positive Moves
• All About Eve
• EU flag burning fail
• Cool American Doritos

S02E07 – Status Quo Forever

We watch season 2, episode 7 of The West Wing ("The Portland Trip").

We talk the education system, returning things, and come up with a hip new name for Ainsley's office.

Links:

• The press pays for Air Force One Rides
• W.E.B DeBois
• DOMA is "gay baiting, pure and simple."
• A Listing of Presidential Pilots
• Vic Berger's Michael Cernovich "Blue Pills" video

S02E06 – What Separates Us From the Dolphins

We watch season 2, episode 6 of The West Wing ("The Lame Duck Congress").

Elise is sick, so it's a boys-only episode. We talk about the objective value of ducks (lame, regular, or otherwise), Brayden preaches the virtues of preventative RSI health, and we discuss the merits of technocracy vs. direct democracy.

Links:

• Ironic Process Theory
• Treaty Reservations
• The Man Who Came to Dinner
• Norma Rae
• Edmund Burke, Speech to the Electors of Bristol
• Hypernormalisation 2016