Keep up the g00d work man!…

Be it the war on drugs destroying the lives of everybody it touches.

Be in the beurocratic nightmare of the police, rewarding political pull over good police work every time.

Be it the *public* school system sucking the life out every idealistic teacher and failing to teach its children anything at all.

Be it the social worker with a monopoly on power, denying Carver the ability to save Randy’s future.

Be it Clay davis, manipulating the masses and using his power to steal and defraud.

Be it carcetti or royce spending the millions they never earnt on things they know nothing about, often based purely on political or egotistical reasons.

Be McNulty’s upcoming destruction, Sobotkas death, Duquan’s situation or Wallace’s demise, these characters have all fallen victim to the incompetent, unearened authority of the biggest institution of all–The very idea of Goverment. I doubt anything can change until we, as a people develop the courage to ask the question for real…

Can Goverment EVER do a damn bit of good for anyone? I submit, it cannot.

Regarding ‘cameos’, I think that’s a poorly chosen word. It’s sometimes jarring, but isn’t it also amazing that they could conceivably cast many scenes, all filled with people who we know, even if they don’t get speaking lines.

Oh, and a catch no one has mentioned. When Bunk is looking at the old file that leads him to Ricky in 56, Felicia Pearson is one of the names in the write up. Is it possible that was the character’s name of the ‘girl in the park’ that Ricky told (Lex?) about? that would be great.

I suspect that this is an homage to Tyreeka Freamon, who Burns & Simon wrote about in The Corner. She was the mother of DeAndre’s child.