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Okay, I know lots of folks are looking forward to the premier of the 2nd season of Dollhouse, and I am too, but I just wanted to take a second to add my voice to another premier I believe is, in some sense, more important. I want to encourage everyone to make an effort to watch The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. It is a six-episode series directed by Academy Award winning documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and written and co-produced by Dayton Duncan. Filmed over several years at some of the United States’ most beautiful and awe-inspiring locales, e.g., Acadia, Yosemite, Yellowstone. the Grand Canyon, the Everglades, the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska , this is about our country, about our people, about the rich and the poor, the celebrities and the unknown, about dreamers and about the wise leadership of our past; and while you’re watching it, if the contrast of that wisdom of yesteryear with some of the foolishness that has been in power lately doesn’t jolt you a bit, then you are truly one of the zombies in this country who may never awake or ever be alive again.

I encourage you to find your nearest right-winger and somehow find a way to make them watch it, because this is all about having the kind of vision necessary so that the people don’t perish, and it is all about our common heritage and about the commonwealth, which many Republicans in recent years have failed to even acknowledge exists. It’s a reminder that we are capable of being one nation and one people with common and benevolent purpose… when we choose to be. 

Premiers Sunday, 8PM ET/PT.