I\’m too lazy to re-type my entire discussion with a buddy of mine about this week\’s \”24,\” so I\’ll just cut and paste what we had to say. There are spoilers in here, in case you haven\’t watched it yet. My friend demanded to go by the name of Evil Grossmouth, the bad guy in this Wisconsin Dental Association comic book.

Dennis York: You\’re right – 24 was outrageous.

DY: There wasn\’t a single scene without a hole you could drive a truck though.

Evil Grossmouth: Was there not a 100% chance that the worm Miles was going to rat them out to the President? Anyone with a GED or a certificate from a welding college could have figured that out.

EG: That was where I lost it. And I love how Bierko\’s henchman is driving the van taking him from CTU, and they give us no explanation how they set that up.

DY: So Jack risks the lives of 50 plane passengers to secure the recording, gets back to CTU, then promptly hands it over to Chloe to go see Audrey for 15 minutes.

DY: PLAY THE F—ING TAPE!

EG: Or better yet — MAKE A COPY OF IT. He gives it to her, doesn\’t tell her to copy it, but tells her to \”clean it up\” And he tells her to work alone and let nobody near her and then you see her siting there working in a goddamned conference room?

DY: When he was on the plane, he was on the phone with CTU – why wouldn\’t he play the tape for them over the phone? Then, if they got shot down, which he knows the president was trying to do, the evidence would survive.

EG: Also, to prevent the country from having to deal with the agony of a sitting president being charged with murder and treason, Logan decides to blow his own brains out? Yeah, that would have really prevented a scandal.

DY: And Mike Novek was already on the phone with the woman from CTU a couple times that day. All it would take would be for one of them to call each other during the plane incident, and everything would be cleared up.

DY: He would never think to call Jack? Or CTU?

DY: When he knows something is going on?

EG: The more I think about it, the more angry I get. Thanks a lot.

DY: Actually, the Bierko scene was one of the least outrageous to me. I was just thinking \”Jesus, how many moles can there possibly be?\”

EG: And none of the eight guards with him noticed him nod at the driver and the drive nod back? Nobody would have caught that?

DY: But when Jack left the recording to be with Audrey, who he had already been told was okay, I almost had an aneurysm.

DY: Or when Karen, Chloe, and Bill Buchanan are in the conference room and Karen decides she has to tell Miles what\’s going on. Everything is going totally fine, and telling him would do absolutely no good, but could jeopardize the operation.

EG: Of course. He wouldn\’t need to prepare anything to brief the AG about the president being a traitor and a murderer. Karen telling Miles was really the last straw for me. I almost turned the TV off there. I only kept it on because I was hoping against hope that she was luring him into the hallway so she could tell him she knew he was working with Logan and then stab him in the throat.

DY: I actually considered just not watching anymore after 21 hours.

EG: I thought about it too, but I can\’t do that. It\’s the same reason I\’m sticking with Alias despite its awfulness — I\’ve already invested enough time in the thing, I ought to see how it ends.

EG: I just hope they finally set 24 somewhere other than LA next season. Seriously, after the last five years, why would any president, government official or person ever go to LA?

DY: And, gee, what was the chance that Logan was going to get a call from someone right as he was about to kill himself? And I\’m sure calls that come in to the retreat from a cell phone go right to him at 4 AM.

EG: That\’s usually how it works. \”Yes, I\’d like to speak to the President. May I tell him who\’s calling? My name is Miles. One moment please, sir.\”

DY: \”Please hold all calls except any unexpected calls I might get from people named Miles.\”

Not exactly Pulitzer material, but I had to complain.

Lodi, Wisconsin (AP) – The much anticipated race for Wisconsin Klan Grand Dragon between Orville Hornblower and Herbert \”Stumpy\” Williams has turned into a contentious race, with each candidate accusing the other of not being sufficiently culturally ignorant.

In a race littered with charges, counter-charges, and broken English, Hornblower has vowed to take a hard line stance, while Stumpy has pitched himself as practicing a more family friendly brand of racial and religious hatred.

Williams introduced his four part\”compassionate racism\” platform to appeal to middle of the road Klansmen. \”Under my plan, we would give people at least 60 seconds\’ notice before we torch their house,\” said Williams, who also vowed that biracial residents would only be harassed every other week.

Williams emphasized personal responsibility and a good work ethic. \”I once lost a job down at the grain mill to a colored fella,\” said Williams. \”I didn\’t get mad, though. It just made me work that much harder to burn his house down,\” he said.

Williams believes he can find an audience by bringing racism home to the average American. \”You know how when you\’re at the grocery store and you really want a bag of Ruffles potato chips, and there\’s only one bag left, and somebody grabs it right out from under your nose, even though you saw it first? It\’s just like that, except the potato chips are taken by the blacks, Jews, and Catholics,\” said Williams.

Meanwhile, Hornblower has called Williams a RINO (Racist in Name Only), and promised voters that he will reward them with truly vitriolic hatred of people of different religions and skin colors. \”Racism really is a growth industry,\” said Hornblower. \”There are Armenians, Greeks, Brazilians… groups out there that we really have never thought about hating before. Hatred really can be a limitless endeavor under the right guidance,\” said Hornblower. He also said he has evidence that Williams\’ great aunt once got a footrub from an Eskimo.

Both candidates agreed, however, that images of black men and white women together should not be condemned. \”Naw, that\’s too hard core for me,\” said Hornblower. \”Anybody that\’s uncomfortable with a public image depicting interracial affection is a little too extreme for the Klan,\” said Williams.

Record turnout for the election is expected, but only if Hornblower gets his cocker spaniel to vote. Last year, the vote was tied 1-1, but Williams was disqualified, as he failed to spell his name correctly on the ballot. \”I got a third grade education, and I ain\’t afraid to show it off,\” said Hornblower.