Today is the most important day of the year for the employees at Empire Clinic, a quirky, independent abortion clinic. Can they keep it together long enough to make sure they don't get swallowed up by D&C Town, a faceless corporate chain of abortion providers that's taking over the East Coast? Some of them are in love. Some of them are in trouble. All of them are in it together. LUCAS: Write slip twice. Put…

Last night, I saw another campy gladiator movie. There was a real missed opportunity inasmuch as no character ever uttered the line "Sometimes, I really gladi-hate you." Last night, I had a dream, and in my dream I wrote a teen comedy set in a gladiatorial school. There was a surly North African gladiator one day away from freedom, a Spaniard with a murdered family, a one-handed Celt with something to prove, a female…