drsmooth wrote:re: the currently running Burns series on the Roosevelts, is this the place where I propose that Ken Burns be forbidden by law to add a narrative track to any of his future documentary offerings?

It's his insipid, inaccurate, sappy, stupid worldview, yes, but Peter Coyote's oracular intonation doesn't help one little teeny tiny bit

How can someone with Burns' visual acuity be so vacuous otherwise?

i just rewatched the civil war one a few weeks ago. it's brilliant and all, but i feel like each episode could be cut by 30 minutes if he didn't feel the need to just start listing town names or people who fought in the war. it's really not useful information anyway.

i haven't watched the roosevelts yet, but my mom told me she was really enjoying it so i'll probably be working through it in the coming weeks.

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a big win for the yeas in dundee has the votes almost even at this point.

I'm thinking this ends up about 45-55%

Ken Burns was my college commencement speaker. Holy hell, what a boring man

It's like when people acted like they were interested in the Cosmos reboot

as a massive nerd, i will never find facts uninteresting so i watched the cosmos reboot.

the SW of scotland really wants to stay in the UK.

I like facts too, i don't know if i'm a nerd, but the show did poorly despite everyone on facebook acting like they watched it

SK790 wrote:looks like all of the cities had fairly low turnouts. 75-80%. a second counsel has reported heavily for the no's. not looking good for an independent scotland.

I can't fathom living in Scotland and not having enough of an opinion about this question to vote on it one way or the other. Wow.

so if the result is "yes" does that qualify as a relocation

yes, read on drudge to the gaza

yes, read on drudge to the gaza

Bucky wrote:so if the result is "yes" does that qualify as a relocation

Sure.

Why is that lady from sex and the city reading the results?

Aberdeen pretty decisively no. Not a good sign.

Just hearing that guy with a Glasgow accent makes me want to meet Sir Alex Ferguson and punch him in the face

Black dude in a kilt. Hmmm.

BBC has called it. 26/32 councils reporting. No ahead 54-46%.

BBC now projecting No will win 55-45%. They read my post from a few hours ago and did not discount my awesomeness due to prior suggestions of a Romney victory. Or they have some fancy model to make that projection.

And seriously wtf with these 6 councils that haven't reported. Polls closed almost 8 hours ago.

Oh ffs, CSPAN cuts out as the Fife announcement is about to put No over the top

One council out, Highland. If it votes more than 57% No, then No will round to 56%. Either way, it has won by about 11%. Pretty convincing victory.

Boo Edinburgh.

Salmond, clown, says Scotland has not, at this stage, decided to become independent. In the great tradition of leaders who know the right answer even if their constituents disagree, he will try to keep asking as many times as it takes until he gets the answer he wants, at which point they will never be asked again.

I'm sure this "our United Kingdom" thing Cameron keeps repeating was focus grouped to death, but god that's grating on my ears. Thought the rest of his speech was fine.

I really think I'd prefer their solution for greater English control of English issues was found in a devolution of authority to the regions or local authorities, and not some weird hybrid in Westminster where there were some issues where all MPs could weigh in and others where only English MPs could. That seems like a really fucked up sort of form of governance, and one in which you could end up with some absurd outcomes (if Labour had a majority due to the other nations, but the Tories held a majority (or plurality) within England).