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Ridiculous Headline of the Week

"Christians Clash at Jesus' Tomb on Orthodox Palm Sunday"

You can read about the religious ridiculousness here.

Penn's State: Here Lies the Clinton Campaign, R.I.P

Simple math, plain and true: one plus one equals two. Pi is an infinite non-repeating number that begins "3.14159..." If Senator Hillary Clinton doesn't win Pennsylvania by at least ten points tomorrow and show that her campaign really can maintain strength and attract donors, her race for the presidency is effectively dead, whether she recognizes it or not. She can't count on the Democrats to magically count the results in the disallowed Florida and Michigan primaries and the superdelegates won't suddenly come flocking to her unless she can do serious damage to the Obama campaign.

So, in more ways than one, Tuesday really is D-Day in Pennsylvania!

Five Great TV Performances You Might Be Missing

Recently, I blogged about the TV miniseries JOHN ADAMS and the great performances by Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney contained therein. Here are five more great performances on TV that may not be getting the acclaim they deserve. Check them out when you get a chance:

1. Minnie Driver, The Riches (FX) - The show continues to be uneven in tone and all over the map thematically, but there's no faulting the performances of the two leads, Eddie Izzard and especially, Minnie Driver. Her character, Dahlia Molloy is one seriously conflicted grifter in a family of grifters, desperately trying to find the straight life on one hand while becoming more hopelessly entangled in her husband's identity theft con with every passing day. Driver plays her fierce, vulnerable, cunning, sexy and pathetic and never oversells it. A surprise Emmy nominee last year, she deserves at least the same consideration this year.

2. James Callis, Battlestar Galactica (Sci Fi) - Last year I celebrated Katie Sackhoff's work on the show as Starbuck. This time I single out Callis' Gaius Baltar, the most conflicted, mealy-mouthed and mesmerizing character on weekly TV. You may hate his character, but you can't take your eyes off of him.

3. Vincent Kartheiser, Mad Men (AMC) - His squirrelly, insecure, junior account exec is a nearly perfect portrayal the small but ambitious New York ad man, circa 1960. Jon Hamm justifiably gets a lot of acclaim for his work as the enigmatic Don Draper on this show, but this enthralling new series wouldn't work without Kartheiser's strong performance.

4. Jack McBrayer, 30 Rock (NBC) - Everything he does as the seemingly goody-two shoes page on this smart, funny cult hit makes me laugh out loud. This in spite of the fact that he is, in many ways, the scariest, least likable character on the show, a perennially sunny, ruthlessly ambitious do-gooder who reveals an increasingly demented and convoluted back story. Love it!

5. Jim Parsons, The Big Bang Theory (CBS) - You try delivering some of the deliciously nerdy technospeak uttered by Parsons' Sheldon Cooper on this sly sitcom without cracking up or tripping over your tongue. Better yet, delight in one of this television season's best new characters, a hopelessly vainglorious, socially awkward supergenius with a doctorate in physics and a knack for social faux pas.

You've been a great audience. I'll be here all the week. Peace...