An anticlimactic election, and other, better things

Well, it's not great, especially given prior projections of the Lib Dems smashing through and ending two party politics for good, but it's not as bad as it could have been either. Cameron doesn't have the majority to rip off his cuddly mask and reveal Zombie Thatcher underneath; the Greens got an MP and Galloway, the Nazis and the Christians didn't; Brown is giving the distinct impression of an unwanted party guest who has finally realised that he should maybe leave...there are seats still to declare even before the coalitions are hacked out of the rough stone, but I suspect this is liveable. Though it would help if Labour diehards would stop these panicked claims that Clegg has 'endorsed' Cameron. No, he's said he will talk to them first but they "must prove they can govern in the national interest". Could the code be much clearer? Talk of an endorsement just plays into Tory hands, that's the narrative they want to spin.

I'd been given to understand that Iron Man 2 was a bit of a disappointment. Huh? OK, so it wasn't perfect. ( spoilers )

I loved it.

Justified, like Luther, sees a former HBO star back and playing a cop whose relationship to his ex-wife is not calculated to see him keep his badge. It is also, however, rather good. The lawman this time is Timothy Olyphant of Deadwood (also the villain in Live Free or Die Hard), essentially playing the same character (right down - or up - to the cowboy hat), except with slightly less of a stick up his ass. He never draws his sidearm except to shoot to kill. Fortunately, he's very quick on the draw. He's back in the Kentucky mining town where he grew up and chasing a former acquaintance who's now a white supremacist asshole (not exactly a challenging departure in terms of roles for Walton Goggins, either - he was formerly dickhead Shane on The Shield). So far it's nothing radical or new, but it is very well-constructed and thoroughly gripping.