So I'm watching The Terminal for the first time, since I didn't go see it in the theaters and I only recently got to record it in HDTV. It's about 110 minutes into the film, after the Indian guy on the runway thing (hopefully that's not a spoiler), and Viktor is marching through the terminal, and I hear this familiar music. Kind of percussive, kind of newsy, but really familiar. I'm thinking, "What the hell is that?"

Answer: It's a cue from the original score that I recognize because OETA started using it as the theme to the Oklahoma News Report a year or two ago. I always thought, "That's not really a very news-like theme; I wonder where they got it?"

Now I know. And to think OETA gets to use that every weeknight, but John Williams won't allow college bands to record arrangements of any his pieces. Hmph.

Update: The music in question is track 4 on The Terminal soundtrack CD. You can hear a 30-second excerpt of it or buy it for 99 cents here, in case you want to put together your own Oklahoma News Report.

First "front-pager" Armando goes off on the most ridiculous ad hominem attacks against Dori for pointing out that Markos is on the wrong side of an issue (which is nothing new - Markos backed Brad Carson out of personal loyalty, not because Carson is any better than Joe Lieberman), then Chris Floyd gets banned from the site for pointing out that right now, in mid-2006, the Democrats in Washington are still rolling over for Bush.

Has the impending Yearly Kos thing imposed some massive cloak of orthodoxy over them or something?