more social psych

stanley milgram, (in)famous creator of the yale electric shock experiments, is also, incidentally, father of the small world phenomenon, which you can read about here.

also, while we're on the subject of "six degrees of separation", stockard channing* is set to leave the west wing along with dule hill and richard schiff. what's with the exodus? the show's actually getting good again.

* (who gets five stars out of five)