As one respondent observed,

I am re-watching the Brett series currently and it is such a remarkable performance. It is difficult to avoid the statement (that I made to my wife last night) that it is the greatest performance ever, of anyone. His movement alone could be the subject of a lengthy study.

Simply, I believe it Unpossible! to overly-adore J. Brett, who just may become as immortal as The Greatest Detective/his ineffable-Self (!)
(And the Mastery of the author/creator's efforts is surely inextricably entwined--now--with this one actor's depiction so moving ... as to have evoked all the encomiums perused since Jeremy Brett's sad demise.)

As to the Bannon loose-cannon-Beast and other recent, pernicious, potentially even fatal developments: I pine for the 'wish' of a friend (when asked ~~ OK so now You're Mistress of the Universe; w.t.f. would YOU do First??)
Ans: Instant karma!!


(not that any One of us would escape such a dire alteration, unscathed. Natch)
... ... but What Fun to Watch (for as long as you survive the cut) eh?

to Gin and Tacos thence a Maus ref. ... a fitting missive to having seen {{shudder}} tonight's Drumpf Report fantasy-thing, and includes this little excerpt:

..It begins with normalizing social deviance toward an Other that is responsible for every aspect of your life that leaves you dissatisfied. It begins when a population is conditioned to read a news story about one of Them being gunned down by someone in a uniform and to react not with human empathy but with satisfaction. It begins when people become convinced that there are Good People like themselves and Bad People like everyone who looks, thinks, or acts differently than themselves. It begins when the oppression of a minority to satisfy the histrionics of a majority (rule of law be damned because I want to feel safe at any cost) is not only tolerated by the political process but becomes one of the products it is most eager to deliver.

Every crime against humanity has humble beginnings. And the kind of people who want to perpetrate them know that they don't grow like weeds. They have to be nurtured, **slowly, until the process is so far along that no group, individual, or institution in society can stop it.

Then just Now on PBS: a clip of G. W. Bush mentioning the necessity of an Independent Media etc. etc.
I mean.. I Mean: HE GETS IT too!

** aka, You Have to be Carefully Taught! in C^# Minor, (making it a slow dirge, as is so congruent to ... Most-ALL of 2016 as-led-to: umm, 2017?)

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Damn..! it sure is weird Out There, what with that whirring noise as accompaniment: {{sigh}} Stuart Chase, again--from inside that tiny coffin.

Ed: PS, on Democracy Now: a review: "this is not the first time Mexicans have been demonized in Murica" with a ref to Mexican repatriation in 1930s, via book by Francisco Balderrama:, Decade of Betrayal
wherein both Mexican Nationals and Americans of Mex. descent were summarily deported:
an antecedent of the FDR imprisonment of Japanese etc. etc. Etc. It's a fucking Murican-habit, y'see?

(Not just a few Americans flirted with Some-other-ISM-than CAPITALism during that lengthy Hoover-abetted-by-inaction playout of that earlier depression.)
I had an Aunt/school teacher who was 'lookin-fer-loopholes' too, so: that's First-degreee hearsay..

BUT our complaisant SCHOOL SYSTEM (as audited by moi) was too chicken-shit to TELL US young'uns just how frequently/and deeply
..has been Murican hypocrisy, all. along. And still is, mostly. cf. that {corrected} nursery rhyme which begins

The world is so full of a number of things
that it's very surprising when somebody sings.