Gokusen is one of those series that make me regret I can only give two thumbs-up. This Japanese comedy-drama (based on a manga) is admittedly formulaic and entirely predictable but it’s so much fun I don’t really mind.

Be sure to keep an eye out for brief cameos by tokusatsu alumni.

(Link obtained from the Qt3 forums.)

The Daily Show’s sardonic appraisal of the end of the search for Iraqi WMDs:

You know, if you’ve never lost a rationale for war, you can’t possibly understand what they’re feeling. The administration has gone through their own five stages of grief over these weapons: anger, denial, angry denial, denial of their anger and now finally acceptance … that there will be no repercussions.

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It is time to call off the search for accountability. It’s not there. It’s never going to be there. If you have to blame somebody, why aren’t you blaming Saddam Hussein? He’s the one who didn’t have the weapons.

All in a day’s work for Captain Scarlet.