End of the line for the Love Boat: MS ex-Pacific Princess beached at Aliaga for scrapping (UPDATE#2)

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16. I was joking... I used to live in Iowa so was very aware of Gopher's later venture...

I also loved Babylon V as a television series, even if Jerry Doyle (Garabaldi) later went on to become a conservative talk show host. But the creator of the series J. Michael Straczynski is more of a hard core progressive like we are. I've always found this post of his to usenet pretty amusing, which perhaps revealed some of the show's tensions between different political perspectives of those on it, but perhaps what lead it to be a very creative sci fi series in addition to a good social commentary on our culture as well and political conflicts that were involved in it.

http://jmsnews.com/msg.aspx?id=1-16688

Bruce had been at the White House about a month ago, in the company of wife
Melissa Gilbert, president of the Screen Actors Guild, for a discussion with
some of the functionaries there concerning acting roles moving north of the
Canadian border.

As they're talking, in a long conference room, in the middle of the meeting the
door oens and Karl Rove -- main strategist for the Republican Party and power
behind the White House throne -- comes in. He says (paraphrased from memory)
to Melissa, "I hope you'll forgive me, but I actually here to see Bruce."

He then tells Bruce, "I just wanted to tell you that I'm a big science fiction
fan, and that Babylon 5 is the best science fiction television series *ever*."

Then there's a pause, and he adds....

"And the President thinks so too."

Upon hearing this, I went to lie down for a spell, but I fully expect to be
back on my feet by Spring, latest.

jms

Yeah, I know that Love Boat was far more of an escapist fun series, but this is a political discussion board. Sometimes these discussions bring up political memories too...