2010-01-28, 10:47 | Link #5781 | |
Moving in circles
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Location: Singapore
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Heartened by such support, I hereby pledge in this coming year to uphold the media's neverending effort to brainwash the people while doing the utmost to line my own pockets. |
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2010-01-28, 11:08 | Link #5782 | |
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Don't even get me started on the reality shows... What a waste of space. |
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2010-01-28, 11:10 | Link #5783 | |
Komrades of Kitamura Kou
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Age: 39
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If I get funding.
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2010-01-28, 12:33 | Link #5791 | |
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2010-01-28, 12:45 | Link #5792 | |
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Location: East Cupcake
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Famed controversial liberal historian Howard Zinn has passed away.
Howard Zinn, historian who challenged status quo, dies at 87 Quote:
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2010-01-28, 12:46 | Link #5793 | |
Wiggle Your Big Toe
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Milwaukee
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Overall reality TV is ethically and morally reprehensible. Then again that wasn't even much a bother to me in the early days of this reality TV 2000s boom. Heck I loved watching Jackass, Viva la Bam, American idol, Survivor, The Amazing Race, all of it (I still hated the Real World though). All reality TV has done now is become stale and less "realistic" than it ever has been. Lots of shows often feel contrived, as if the winner is already predetermined (in which some cases that may very well be true). Everything is copied off what has worked before, but with very poor results. Jackass was great at what it did, but after it's success along came the copycats and they lacked (in my opinion) the quality of "over-the-top stupidity" that jackass had. These shows actually seemed less real than Jackass (which is very wierd to say the least). American Idol is a huge shell of what it used to be and I don't even bother to watch Survivor. Just none of it holds any interest to me like it used to and there is just too much of it these days.
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2010-01-28, 12:47 | Link #5794 | |
Not Enough Sleep
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on the cover of your grant application just put the word "for the children" on it.
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2010-01-28, 13:17 | Link #5795 | |
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2010-01-28, 13:17 | Link #5796 |
Baruk Khazad
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Location: finland
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John Stewart takes the democrats to the cleaners:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_440050.html
My favorite part?: To top it off, he unveiled a new logo for the DNC: a lifeless possum. Explained Mandvi: "It says, 'You can't hurt us anymore. Because we're already dead.'" |
2010-01-28, 13:46 | Link #5797 |
Kuu-chan is hungry
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Raleigh, NC
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J.D. Salinger, author of "The Catcher in the Rye", has died at the age of 91.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_obit_salinger His book was definitely one of the better ones that I was forced to read in high school. |
2010-01-28, 13:54 | Link #5798 | |
Not Enough Sleep
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2010-01-28, 14:40 | Link #5799 | |
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Honestly, and I hate to sound callous, but the first thought I had when I read the news, was that now Salinger would never appear on the Colbert Report... Last edited by james0246; 2010-01-28 at 15:03. |
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