John – Glad you’re watching The Wire. Even happier you’re keeping the phrase “jeez oh pete” alive. Oh my stars and garters, that’s a great expression. Anyway, I agree with you entirely about The Wire. Just for the record, some readers think I’ve argued that The Wire is conservative (those interested can see my series of posts from Dec. 1, here). But that was not my argument. It’s obviously not intended to be a conservative critique of society, but it is an honest one. And any honest description is going to have elements that are beneficial to our side of the argument. justt as an accurate diagnosis of a patient’s problems can still lead doctors to disagree radically on the treatment. Beside from its objectively high quality, my argument for conservatives to embrace The Wire rested largely on the fact that if we wait for purely conservative shows to embrace, we will be waiting a very, very long time and, more importantly, ideologically slanted shows from the right are just as likely to be bad as agit prop from the left.