Well, Dick Gephardt's twisted, mutilated body has landed with a resounding thud on the shoulder of that long road to the Democratic presidential nomination. He joins previous victims Bob Graham and Carol Mosely Braun as roadkill.
Surprisingly though, it wasn't Howard Dean driving the campaign juggernaut to victory in Iowa, but John Kerry. Who'd have thought that a week ago? Now the question becomes: Who will be the next one to get squashed? My money's on Lieberman. And hopefully this is one bet I'll win, so I can make up for all the money I lost on those stupid Eagles.
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French Bashing from the Grave
Since 1949, an anonymous stranger has visited Edgar Allen Poe's gravesite every January 19th--the anniversary of the author's death. He has always left a bottle of French cognac and three roses.
In keeping with tradition, the "Poe Toaster" made his annual pilgrimage last night, but with one minor change: He also left a note saying "The sacred memory of Poe and his final resting place is no place for French cognac." Though a bottle was left behind, the note adds that it was done so with great reluctance.
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Reality Sucks
In a stunning piece of news that may shake the American entertainment industry to its very core, Fox TV has announced it is canceling a project because it wasn't appropriate for the network. Considering that Fox has previously brought us such reality fare as Temptation Island and Joe Millionaire, what could possibly be any worse? Is it the broadcast premier of the Paris Hilton video? Televised executions? WHAT?
Well, it was a show tentatively titled Wild Sex..... From the National Geographic Society.
It was to feature animals of various species in the act of mating. Cheryl McDowell of Fox's broadcast and standards department (They actually have one of those!?!) said that showing the "mounting" acts of various animals would be "problematic."
Oh, and Temptation Island, which sought to deliberately break up couples by sticking them half naked in hot tubs with someone other than their actual loved ones, fot the simple purpose of seeing who seduces whom, was NOT "problematic?"
But heaven forbid we should risk exposing our children to koala bears humping one another!
Meanwhile, CBS has announced plans for its next reality series, Amish in the City. It will follow a group of 16 year old Amish teenagers as they are exposed to big city life for the first time.
What the hell.... In the climactic final episode we can watch their heads explode as they're introduced to Paris and Nicole from the Simple Life.
Network President Lester Moonves insists that the show would be "respectful" of the Amish faith.
It should be noted that CBS is the network that last year proposed taking an impoverished family from Appalachia and sticking them in a Beverly Hills Mansion so that the rest of us are amused as they discover the joys of microwave ovens. That project was killed after a massive public outcry.
Is it any wonder cable TV continues to cut into the broadcast networks' audiences?
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