I think that I spelled it ‘Schroot’ in an earlier comment somewhere… it appears you have the correct spelling of the character on the only show that I watch (on DVD, online) NBC’s “The Office”. Indeed, as I read the SSCI report section about Larry Franklin, the character of Dwight Schrute, sent to Rome by Stephen Hadley and Dougie Feith, completely certain of his own importance, leapt into my brain and has continued to haunt me since. The imagery was so traumatic that I’ve not yet finished that report, nor translated massaccio’s synopsis… (*sigh*)…
Unclear about your reference to the yorkie guy… so many faces, so much blur…

EW on MSNBC?
Cogent thought? Analysis?
A background in teaching, who knows how to explain complex topics…?
Puleeze!! Don’t tease!

Agree with you on the Rachel Maddow assessment: she’s a pulsar in a galaxy of so-called luminaries running out of fuel.

It’s only my gut talking [Oops- forgot breakfast again] but I wouldn’t be surprised if a full workup on the MSNBC armada with particular focus on the hows & why of the sinking of its then Liberal flagship USS Donohue ending with tomorrow mornings first post-Russert MtP & the intriguing possibility of its current Liberal flagship USS Olbermann being promoted to Admiral to fill the unexpected vacancy.

Who knows… but with Kommie Keith in charge MSNBC might dump its full line-up of Piggly Wiggly tabloid rejects- like the Lock Up tour of American meta-crazies- in favor of wall to wall with the likes of Rachel Meddow [who I think is the closest thing to a dead solid lock to be an industry star since the Mighty hockey Pens drafted Sid the Kanuckian Kid - & maybe a range of blogging heads: Ms E Wheel for example is coming along very nicely from her early days poking holes in Dwight Shrute

[Isn’t that the name of the guy from National Review who played her crazed psychotic agenda-ridden straight man? I think I might have the name wrong: Shrute’s takes would be way more intriguing. He as a yorkie right?]

If you were to do that story, you could HIRE folks to read your tea leaves.

Though a late second term Reagan appointee, TonyK was a trusted fallback known recourse following a pair of scandalous nominations. Essentially Reagan’s parting gift to nascent neoconnery crashed when profTribe and some helpful senators bared the gambit Bork meditated.

However, JBalkin seems to have a warning and yet another joke as he studies what Scotus might be trying to counsel neoconnish Bush to read into the latest decision in Boumediene, JB sounding as if freshly emerged from caste hostilities, depicting neocons as revolutionaries.

Maybe strider7 @55 has happened upon the appropriate characterization from a difficult time fully 23 years prior to TKennedy’s 1988 nomination, in 1965 when the performer in a modern folksong partly cited @55 added a fading bit of civil rights pop psychology in a passing mention of person(s) “Bent out of shape from society’s pliers”. The idea of the unruly verse seemed to be a theme of individualism and principle, though a lot more is happening, too. That was a year when the writer recognized he was more artist than politico, a view that has a continuum, as may be viewed in some newly published pen and colors artwork by the same individual viewable in sneak preview at the currently morphing website linked. I want to read Balkin’s list of 4 losses at the Supreme Court again, for the foundered neocons in the Bush administration’s sake, and for article III’s worth.

Heh.