Recount

This weekend, in absence of any real life, I watched Recount, a fantastic HBO TV movie about the farcical 2000 US presidential election, and the chaos that ensued in Florida over hanging and dimple chad (the plural of chad is chad, as we find out) and the various efforts on both the Republican and Democratic sides to swing the election for their guy. A brilliant cast - Kevin Spacey, Denis Leary, Tom Wilkinson, Ed Begley Jnr, and Laura Dern - truly unnerving as the bizarre Katherine Harris, Florida's overly-made-up Secretary of State - Recount is essential viewing for any politico-heads out there, and is especially topical this year where the election could come down to a close vote-off in many key swing states.