It's time for liberals to get in touch with the antiheroes of "Deadwood".

[Kire]

"I am a sinner who does not expect forgiveness," Hearst Corp. representative (and big-time sinner) Francis Wolcott confesses in a recent episode. "But I am not a government official."

At a time when Washington is passing laws to intervene in individual medical cases, and self-described federalists want to amend the Constitution itself to prevent individual states from experimenting with marriage laws, "Deadwood's" skepticism of government and celebration of individuality couldn't be timelier. And its viciously profane yet pragmatic demonstrations of tolerance feel more stiff-spined and American than an anti-defamation industry that has been enthusiastically adopted by the same conservatives who once mocked it. Episode 22, for example, has this delightful live-and-let-live exchange:

Silas: You talk like you take it up the ass.
Hugo: I do not, my friend Adams, take it up the ass.
Silas: Don't call me your fuckin' friend!
Hugo: But I suspect those that do consider that they advance their own interests. Like them, shall we not pursue that which gratifies us mutually?

In Episode 2, after Bullock objects to Swearengen's anti-Semitic insults of Bullock's partner Sol, Sol refuses to let words get in the way of business: "I been called worse by better."

http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2005/05/21/deadwood_democrats/index.html">The New Face of the Democrats
by Matt Welch, Salon.com - May 21, 2005

[liberalnurse]

1. Tonight is the Second Season Finale'.

I just find myself identifying with Calamity Jane in many ways. She is a natural.

[Kire]

2. here's the real link

http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2005/05/21/deadwood_democrats/index.html