S02E17 – The Big Ugly

We watch season 2, episode 17 of The West Wing ("The Stackhouse Filibuster").

We talk the filibuster, standing desks, and shirt tucks.

Links:

• Standing desks
• Strom Thurmond Filibuster
• Tomate du Saltambique

S02E16 – Dead Red Redemption

We watch season 2, episode 16 of The West Wing ("Somebody's Going to Emergency, Somebody's Going to Jail").

We talk about anarchy, map projections, and Don Henley.

Links:

• Virgin Air Safety Video
• Don Henley – New York Minute
• Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
• Ring Lardner Jr.
• Studio 60 Hollywood blacklist scene
• Gall-Peters Projection
• Cylindrical Equal-Area Projection
• Lambert cylindrical equal-area projection with oblique orientation
• Brigadoon
• New York Minute (2004) Official Trailer - Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen Movie HD

S02E15 – Gut Dominance

We watch season 2, episode 15 of The West Wing ("Ellie").

We talk drug policy, that Allman Brothers reference, and examine this epiosde's erotic undertones.

Links:

• Imis Firing
• The short change scam
• Mr Potato Head
• POTUS Clock
• Obamacare Summit (pt 1)
• Rear Window timelapse
• Joycelyn Elders