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Fake news is dead! Long live fake news!
It's possible that Comedy Central--like CBS--are trying to work out a seperate deal with their writers. Or, since they are both owned by Viacom, one overarching deal for the two. Since the AMPTP is proving so intractable, one wonders if this is how the strike will be resolved, or not: individual production companies will either strike seperate deals, or transform themselves into writer-less entities.
In any event, it's my fervent hope that none of these shows return to... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 4:33 PM on December 21, 2007
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Only in Brooklyn.
So just because a guy throws a wet glove out the window means he was peeing in it? Silliest part: the author purports to explain "why Brooklyn smells like piss" when he can discern no odor from the discarded item.
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 8:02 PM on May 16, 2007
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OOOMS Design.
They need to work on their WEB design. Not very accessible. I wanted to look, honest!
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 12:43 AM on April 26, 2007
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Did he use diet bread and reduced-fat peanut butter?
How on earth is that sandwich worth $49.95?
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 3:17 PM on April 5, 2007
also, let's be clear about the price:
it serves 8-10 people. assume 8 people eat it, the damn thing only costs a little over $5 per.
Baloney. Come on. Peanut butter, jelly, bacon, white bread, and margarine? I don't care how many people it serves, and I think "8-10" is a clear exaggeration to make the "one if you're Elvis" stand out more. Either this story is phony or the King got ripped the fuck off.
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 8:03 PM on April 5, 2007
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Saddam sentenced to death.
Forget hanging. Shoot him in the head and do it live on network television, please.
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 2:04 AM on November 5, 2006
flapjax, i bet we made sure our puppet govts there didn't sign on to the Hague thing, like we didn't--it's disgusting.
Yeah, it's "disgusting" that we didn't abdicate our judicial sovereignty to a bunch of yahoos in the Netherlands. When exactly did "The Hague" become the be-all end-all of justice in this world? Does anybody believe that Saddam isn't guilty of what he's been accused of? If you don't personally support the death... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 2:29 AM on November 5, 2006
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Save Studio 60
"Studio 60" sucks rocks but I'll keep watching it 'til they cancel it. I haven't enjoyed snarking about a show so much since the unbelievably bad "Roswell" (1999-2002).
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 1:46 PM on November 1, 2006
I think Sorkin hated net chatter about him and his show back in West Wing days ... he can't be enjoying all the talk about S60.
This is a funny story. ...and I was going to write it all out, but in the process of researching, found a blog post that had it all done for me!
The long back story of Aaron Sorkin, West Wing, Televisionwithoutpity and the "U.S. Poet Laureate"... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 4:30 PM on November 1, 2006
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Political junk for political junkies
I would also not be shocked to see an upset in Arizona
I would be EXTREMELY shocked.
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 11:46 AM on November 1, 2006
Empath, McCain is no decent Republican. I don't think he's even a decent human being.
He's sucking at the teat of Falwell and Robertson quite thirstily these days.
He wants a chance at the presidency in 2008. He can't win the nomination without appealing to the Republican base. I was more disappointed by his Kerry pile-on--surely he knows better--but you gotta do what you gotta do. "Pandering" aside he's still a more... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 1:03 PM on November 1, 2006
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...who's the grayest of them all?
I think we're currently occupying a lot of their land unjustly.
Amen!
Chortle. You people are really something else.
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 6:08 PM on October 31, 2006
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Right and left and center...
Polling shows that 'atheist' ranks just below 'muslim' as far as 'tolerable son-in-law' goes.
That's a strange metric to go by. I wouldn't want by "son-in-law" (were I to ever have one) to be atheist either, but that's because interfaith marriages face enormous difficulty. I'm as Christian as they come, but I'd gladly vote for a competent, qualified, atheist candidate--if he or she could convince me of his or her respect for my faith. But on... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 7:51 PM on October 27, 2006
LOL. Such a delicate flower you are. When 60% of this country reject the evolution of man, votes as the 2nd-strongest deme for Bush in 2004 (72%), wouldn't you say most of the "religious people" in this country are indeed "big fat dummies"?
No, in fact, I wouldn't. Your pompous attitude exactly personifies the problem.
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 8:33 PM on October 27, 2006
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National Trichotillomannia Awareness Week 2006.
I shave myself all over to stop trich. Head, face, legs, chest, and genitals. I can go for weeks this way without a problem but if I let my facial hair grow in just a few days I'm back to pulling like I never stopped. It's more than just a bad habit. Try being a man with this disease. Nobody understands.
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 10:02 PM on October 1, 2006
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A backdoor plan to thwart the electoral college
I don't know about this plan in particular but I like the direction of the discourse. The popular vote has never been what really elects a president, so instead of viewing the electoral college as a stumbling block, why not find a way to make it more meaningful? The article mentions that Democrat electors won't be too keen to cast their vote for a Republican, or vice versa. Could such a move as this actually change the way we choose those electors? Can you imagine a group of learned men and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 3:47 PM on June 24, 2006
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When I'm 64.
Huh? What does feeding him have to do with his divorce?
When I get older losing my hair
many years from now
will you still be sending me a valentine
birthday greeting, bottle of wine
If I'd been out till quarter to three
would you lock the door
Will you still need me
Will you still feed me
When I'm sixty-four
Freakin newbie.
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 2:09 PM on June 18, 2006
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CU police offer $50 bounty to identify maybe pot smokers.
They'll have to prove in court that the people were actually smoking marijuana, and not hand-rolled cigarettes.
Why would they need to prove anything of the sort?
On 4-20-2006 University officials closed Farrand Field from 12 Noon until 5 PM. The field was closed off with barricades, yellow jacketed "event staff" personnel and police officers.
Approximately 40 signs were posted on all sides... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 4:19 AM on April 29, 2006
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TerRARists!
Jayder, you're right. It's infinitely preferable - especially in the wake of events such as this one - that people remain ignorant of reality. I'll know better next time.
Moronic. As if "reality" was a known value in this situation. It wasn't. The crew might have known that the man might not have been able to open the door, manually that is, but there was concern about a bomb, there was at least one possible accomplice in the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 12:04 AM on April 23, 2006
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Sub-Pixel Rendering
I don't care what anyone says, ClearType looks decidedly better than default on a CRT. Then again, I'm a blind fuck with 120 dpi font settings and Text Size->Largest so what do I know.
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 10:16 PM on February 28, 2006
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National Pancake Day - Too Good To Be True?
Thought you guys might like this:
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ALEXANDRIA, Va. -- An Alexandria police officer has been placed on administrative leave after shooting and killing a teenager at a restaurant parking... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 1:27 PM on February 26, 2006
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Helvetica
Other important elements: hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, carbon, phosophorous, sulfur, sodium, chlorine, potassium, helium, flourine, iodine, bromine, iron, copper, gold, platinum, aluminum, tungsten, mercury... oh, heck, I love 'em all. Except for cesium.
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 11:00 PM on February 3, 2006
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Disney eats crow.
Remember: nitpicking other's posts makes you look like an anal blockhead.
clyde is a crimefighter. He fights crime. Who's the blockhead now, asshole?
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 12:59 AM on January 20, 2006
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A million little peices of BS.
It's important, fshgrl, because
because you say it is. If the book is good, it's good, and if it's not, it's not. Where I come from worth is evaluated from the text and not some tabloid expose spurred by the search for a mugshot of the author.
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 10:04 PM on January 8, 2006
But this is not so. A memoir is not fiction. A memoir is someone telling you a story of their life, and the honesty implicit in both listening to and telling such stories is critically important. There is an element of trust in reading a memoir, and it is a violation of this trust to do what Frey has (apparently) done.
And the fact that the book has come to mean so much for so many people, and the fact that the book presented such strong opinions on emotional... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 1:08 AM on January 9, 2006
Sorry: LITERARY truth--the much more important aspect--is the not the same as LITERAL truth.
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 1:09 AM on January 9, 2006
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It's just a theory!
What hilarious and clever political commentary! Not unnecessary in any way!
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 11:01 AM on January 7, 2006
the geeks at Joystiq sent in some possible [Nintendo DS] redesigns, many of which seem completely plausible.
I don't think any of those look particularly plausible. Many of them posit highly unlikely design upgrades (larger screens and analog controls) and others leave the top screen precipitously exposed. Overall I'd say only the first looks reasonable: a DS on a diet with a healthy dose of that oh-so-fashionable Apple style mixed in. I think Nintendo... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 1:04 PM on January 7, 2006
That shell image is a mockup by IGN that may or may not resemble the actual product. As with so much else, we'll find out at E3!
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 5:01 PM on January 8, 2006
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Monopoly Hacks
Isn't a canonical list of unofficial rules a contradiction in terms?
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 11:39 PM on January 7, 2006
MeFi post:
Blue Screen of Google death?
And its not far out that a device like that could sell for 100 bucks: it doesnt have the expensive componenets like graphics processors, high end cpus, or harddrives.
That's just baloney. Without graphics processors how is it going to be a media center? Will the aether process the high-def signals that this thing will allegedly handle? Can a toaster do "end-to-end" encryption? How is it going to handle home automation tasks without persistent... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 1:11 PM on January 3, 2006
If you want to compare generic Logitech pads and cheap RAM to the seamless 360 controller and its GDDR3 memory, you could certainly build a less expensive box, but that's thoroughly disingenous.
About as disingenous, in fact, as suggesting you can buy anywhere near the functionality of what's being suggested here for $200. The Earthlink Mailstation I referred to retailed for $200 in 2002 and it was a steaming turd. The absolutely least you can pay for a media center PC... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 1:34 PM on January 3, 2006
Huh, looks like I was right all along!
posted to MetaFilter by kjh
at 11:58 AM on January 4, 2006
