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Afternoon, fellow commentarians. There was a virtual explosion of comments this week which deserved special recognition, but, we can only include so many of them — read on, if you will.

Speaking of explosions, there was a filmed one this week on the Potomac, which for some reason was incredibly big news. (Hey, if obsessing over large balls of flames is wrong, we don’t want to be right.) stmove, though, didn’t seem too interested in the show that the fire was filmed for, a CBS pilot called Washington Field:

Finally! Another show about an imaginary elite group of government workers and ‘exciting’ things like explosions happening in cities in which they never actually happen. Just when we were running low.

They said that the endearing portrait of the FBI which I submitted last year (the script centered around a bunch of guys on leave from not catching murderers on Indian reservations eating at Chipotle in NoVa with their earpieces still in) would not be that interesting, but I think people would watch just for the witty banter.

Why don’t they ever shoot these shows in places where things actually get blown up? It would save a lot of money, and reduce the amount of TV producers. I hear Kabul and Bogota have mad discounts on cinematic explosives.

stmove, I’d definitely watch your show, for what it’s worth.

After the jump, Jim Graham gets 007ized, who needs voting rights when you can just take other states’ rights away, and how not to sloganize D.C.