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[doyle]

My glut of Amazon packages continued today with the new Second Doctor DVD, The Invasion. I'e never seen this, only heard the audio, because it's a Jamie and Zoe one and I wanted to hold off until it was remastered rather than watch the poor-quality download. So worth it. I'm two episodes in and suddenly remembering why this TARDIS team pwns all: Zoe happily opts out of all that silly investigating aliens stuff in favour of posing for Isabelle, a gorgeous photographer with the World's Shortest Skirt and a tendency to roll around on the floor to get a shot (is there femslash? THERE SHOULD BE) while Jamie is easily bought off with shiny trinkets (the story's Lumic equivalent is "a very nice man" for giving Jamie a portable radio. God knows what he'd say if handed an iPod.)

ETA: Holy shit, Rumsfeld resigned? What? (I would say it's terribly sad that I follow American politics more avidly than local, but my MP is Ian 'no surrender' Paisley who will no doubt continue to get a whopping majority years after he dies. So the American stuff's a tiny bit less depressing.)

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Yeah, Rummy's gone. Last night's election was a pretty clear signal that Americans are fed up with the status quo. Rumsfeld and the war haven't been polling well for a long time and he's been coming in for some high-profile criticism, including an editorial printed in the official newspaper of the Armed Services that opined that he should resign. One has to wonder if there isn't a bit of the sacrificial lamb to it -- the Bush administration's way of saying "all right, all right, look, we're changing things OKAY?" Or it could just be that Rummy didn't want to deal with a Democratic-controlled Congress -- Democrats control the House, if there's a God in heaven they'll control the Senate, and the Republicans had been running things since 1994.

It's going to be an interesting couple of years, though. One wonders if anything is really going to change.