Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Grab bag

I know you were all flabbergasted yesterday when you saw that the Democratic Senate voted legal immunity for the telecoms who cooperated with intelligence agencies spying on Americans.

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The tortured becomes the torturer.

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More voices and choices-- that's what American elections need. And by gum, we're gonna get 'em. I left work tonight to discover a voice message on my cell phone from Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, advising of a conference call regarding her bid on Friday afternoon, and then at home, there's an email from Ralph Nader, advising that he's nearing a decision on an '08 run.

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Quote of the week: Fox News boss Roger Ailes, on the boycott of his network waged by a few of the 2008 Democratic presidential hopefuls, "The candidates that can't face Fox, can't face Al Qaeda."

This is faulty logic. More accurately, I think, many people believe that both organizations are simply too well-funded.

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You can always count on the editorialists at The Onion to risk asking the delicate questions.

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Here's a fansite dedicated to the late Suzanne Pleshette.

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Salon has a new weekly feature entitled "Re-viewed." They're calling it a "fresh look at great TV shows available on DVD." This could be some nice promotion for some old favorites that are having a difficult time getting full commercial release on the format. First review up is "St. Elsewhere". I've added season one to the Netflix queue. You should do the same, unless you live in my distribution area.

1 Comments:

At 11:29 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

They are scared of Fox News? I give America 100 years bedore we fall. Thank God I will be dead.

 

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