Law and Order: UK

I've just finished watching the third episode of "Law & Order: UK" and, like the other two, it's a reworking of an original "Law & Order" episode (in order they are "Cradle to Grave", "Born Bad" and "Working Mom"). Is the original Law & Order" not shown in the UK or is it that, as the show is 19 years old, they hope the reworking wouldn't be recognized? And perhaps they didn't think that we in the states would see it. They do change things a bit as the finale of the "Born Bad" ep was ever so much better than our version (the prosecutor held out some hope to the boy whereas in the American version there was none). Perhaps it was easier to sell using the American episodes but as the first series (as they say over there) is just 13 episodes I'm keeping my fingers crossed that eventually we'll see some original stuff

America Today

Loved this article on America's Lost Decade at the Daily Kos. Actually I think this all began with Reagan and his push for less regulation, lower taxes on the wealthy and the campaign against unions. Hopefully we'll soon see the splintering of the Rethuglican party and the end any hope for any sort of Reaganomics to happen again (at least in my lifetime). There was a reason many of  these regulations were put in place during the Depression. As Santayana said, Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it. We didn't learn so we repeated the mistakes from early in the 20th century. Hopefully it will not be repeated a second time in the 21st century.