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HBO: The Wire: Finale Letter: Mar 17, 6:25pm 2 reviews education
http://www.hbo.com/thewire/finaleletter/; From the page: \"We are a culture without the will to seriously examine our own problems. We eschew that which is complex, contradictory or confusing. As a culture, we seek simple solutions. We enjoy being provoked and titillated, but resist the rigorous, painstaking examination of issues that might, in the end, bring us to the point of recognizing our problems, which is the essential first step to solving any of them.
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http://davies.lohudblogs.com/files/2008/01/010808davies.jpg: Jan 27, 12:14pm 46 reviews politics
http://davies.lohudblogs.com/files/2008/01/010808davies.jpg; Shit if that's not how I feel...is it wrong to not vote because you're tired of having to choose between the lesser of who gives a fuck? i guess i have till november to decide.

http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2007/11/not_the_daily_s.html: Nov 19, 2007 3:39pm 2 reviews tv
http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/2007/11/not_the_daily_s.html; Getting paid is the name of the game. Sigh.

YouTube - Nellie Mckay on The View: Nov 15, 2007 5:39pm 1 review music
http://video.stumbleupon.com/?p=dyqd8kfytk; I've fallen madly in love with McKay's music over the past few weeks. But seriously, Elizabeth Hasselbeck is so vacuous I want to put a gun to my head. Actually, first her's and then mine, in that order.

And yeah, the song is called "I Wanna Get Married," but pay attention to the lyrics. How much more sardonic can she be? Man, are those ladies dense. People actually watch this show? I'm blown away.

The New York Times & Log In: Nov 1, 2007 2:09pm 1 review multimedia
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/14/opinion/14dowd.html?_r=2&WT.mc_id=OP-D-I-NY...; Moral guidance from Stephen Colbert, via his NY Times Op-ed piece:

On faith: "After Jesus was born, the Old Testament became a way for Bible publishers to keep their word count up."
On gender: "The sooner we accept the basic differences between men and women, the sooner we can stop arguing about it and start having sex."
On race: "While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad."
On the elderly: "They look like lizards."

StumbleUpon - treHandsomeDevils web site reviews and blog: Oct 29, 2007 6:59pm 12 reviews stumblers
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Americas Most Sedentary Cities - Yahoo! Real Estate: Oct 29, 2007 6:52pm 2 reviews america
http://promo.realestate.yahoo.com/most_sedentery_cities.html; I work in a restaurant, so I see this first hand. The last shift I worked, I remember noting that I couldn't even squeeze between two parallel tables because the people sitting there were so large their chairs touched.

Anyway, enjoy your next chicken fried steak, fatsos.
Perhaps the next time you eat out you could order the grilled chicken, or something. Just a thought.

American kids, dumber than dirt / Warning: The next generation might just be the…: Oct 24, 2007 6:47am 12 reviews social-commentary
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/a/2007/10/24/notes102407.DTL; From the page: "We are, as far as urban public education is concerned, essentially at rock bottom. We are now at a point where we are essentially churning out ignorant teens who are becoming ignorant adults and society as a whole will pay dearly, very soon, and if you think the hordes of easily terrified, mindless fundamentalist evangelical Christian lemmings have been bad for the soul of this country, just wait.

"...The dystopian evidence seems overwhelming indeed, to the point where it might be no stretch at all to say the biggest threat facing America is perhaps not global warming, not perpetual warmongering, not garbage food or low-level radiation or way too much Lindsay Lohan, but a populace far too ignorant to know how to properly manage any of it, much less change it all for the better."

http://www.transmogrifier.org/ch-img/ch950726.gif: Oct 18, 2007 2:43pm 10 reviews humor, social-commentary
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Profiles: Stealing Life: Reporting &Essays: The New Yorker: Oct 16, 2007 3:19pm 2 reviews tv
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/10/22/071022fa_fact_talbot?printable=...; In creating "The Wire," Simon said, he and his colleagues had "ripped off the Greeks: Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides. Not funny boy-- not Aristophanes. We've basically taken the idea of Greek tragedy and applied it to the modern city-state."

He went on, "What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason-- instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, it's the postmodern institutions...those are the indifferent gods."

What a fucking genius that David Simon is.

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