A guy on the subway this morning, roughly my age, was wearing leather pants. (Well, they looked like leather. It might have been faux leather. I wasn't about to touch them to find out for certain.) Leather pants have never looked less than ridiculous on most men. In fact, in this day, on a woman they look slightly pathetic, as if the lady involved has been forced to dig into the back of her closet for something that fits. At a minimum, she has missed the style train by a good decade or so. (On the other hand, leather skirts and dresses remain acceptable, simply because they are skirts and dresses. And the hotter a woman is, the better leather looks. Let's face it - a hot woman can wear whatever she damned well pleases.) This guy wasn't obviously gay (let the arrows fly), so I can't imagine his intentions. After all, you don't even see young guys in leather pants these days in public. The only men who should be allowed to wear leather pants are rock singers, and even they look pretty silly in them. For everyone else, it isn't radical, it's embarrassing.

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24 SPOILER ALERT!!!!!

Yet again, 24 has proven why it is such a great show, first, with last week's death by nerve gas of techie Edgar and with this week's death-by-drug-overdose-from-a-needle-wielded-by-a-former-CTU-agent-who you-wanted-to-kill-but-couldn't-do-it-because-you're-a-better-person-than-that of Tony. The actor who plays Edgar was in the paper this week complaining that the producer said his character became more vulnerable as his popularity increased. His rationale was why would you kill off a popular character. But in the world of 24 it makes perfect sense. This show keeps you off balance, and even a popular character isn't safe from the business they are in. Witness the death of Teri at Nina's hands in Season One, Jack's killing of Chappelle in Season Three, and the deaths in the first 10 minutes of Season Five of Palmer and Michelle, and many others. It's a dangerous world, and if your job is to fight that danger then you are never safe. Edgar's death, sad though it is, is a reminder of that.

As for Tony, this brings home just how alone Jack is in the world. In Season Four, when his back was against the wall, Jack called on the one person he knew he could trust - Tony. (And what a rush that arrival was.) Now, having lost three of the four people he relied on to save his own life, and rejected by his daughter, Jack has only the mission left. When Jack gets angry, people die. Let the slaughter begin.