[Timesink]

(I'm new at this, never watched this crap, so forgive if insight is old hat.)

You're trying too hard. West Wing is about as subtle as a sledgehammer to the head. Only far more tedious.

[Revolting cat!]

So you think that the producers just pull character names out of a hat and instead of a biblical sounding "Josiah" they could have pulled "Bubba" and instead of "Ritchie", they could have pulled "Schwartz"?