[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. --L.]
- Late Night: Florida is NUTS! Bestiality IN, Fake Testicles OUT! (Firedoglake)
- …last week the state legislature declined to ban bestiality.
But today the wacky state of Eff-El-Lay just got way nuttier when the State Senate voted to ban “Truck Nutz,” decorative testicles that dangle from trailer hitches on cars and trucks…
Calling the dangling adornments offensive, Republican Sen. Cary Baker, a gun shop owner from Eustis, Florida led the no-balls brigade, while fellow GOP member Senate Rules Chairman Jim King would like to see the proposal sacked. King bagged on the measure and other Republicans also said bollocks to nanny state interference in vehicle decoration. While the measure got hung onto a broader transportation bill in the Senate, testicles are not attached to the House version.
[Yes, I'm 12. -L]
- Cougar Town in Name Only (Women & Hollywood)
- I have been a fan of Cougar Town (and yes, I did get a lot of shit about watching the show) since the beginning and always thought that the show was way better than its title. In fact since maybe the third or fourth episode the whole concept of the show – Courteney Cox dating younger men – was thrown out in favor of a sitcom about a bunch of 40 something people trying to get through life with lots of wine thrown in.
What’s even more interesting is that the creator Bill Lawrence, and the network ABC, have allowed the show to evolve and get SO much better so now it really rocks.
It rocks so much that they even think that they can change the name and survive.
…the actual pitch and the title of the show are actually holding women back from watching it cause women hate the term COUGAR. They hate it.
- Godwin’s Law, On Steroids (Talking Points Memo)
- The Daily Show has a pretty clever compendium of Glenn Beck’s obsession with comparing everything to Hitler or the Nazis. [Links to video. -L]
- Kids These Days aren’t Kids These Days (Pandagon – Amanda Marcotte)
- …the unique historical experiences of the Boomers when they were young have come to stand in for all relations between generations. It’s actually understandable in a way. The defining cultural theme of their youth was that they were a Youth Culture, and that they were completely breaking with tradition. The music was new, the clothes were new, the attitudes were new, the sexual mores were new. Even people who were more conservative of that generation (and they were the majority—they voted in Reagan, remember) still bought into the completely remade cultural landscape. The music of the 60s and 70s was drawn from older forms, but it was regarded as fresh and exciting.
But what I’d like to point out is that this model, where young people break from older generations and strike out on their own, was culturally unique to the Boomers, the generation that created the “Don’t trust anyone over 30” motto. Gen X (roughly born 1964-1981) and Gen Y (1982-2000) don’t actually fit into the narrative. In fact, starting in the late 70s, blatant recycling and reinvention became the innovation, and that’s stuck with us to this day.
Hip hop is most prominent and most influential example of this. The entire form is built on turning old into new. Entire subgenres of the music will be created from a single influential sample. Without this attachment to history, the form doesn’t exist. Punk rock and New Wave were mining similar territory. The whole point of The Ramones was to take 60s-era sounds and update them a little as a refutation to the bloated stadium rock that defined rock in their era.
- Rupert and Me: I Question the NewsCorp (Firedoglake)
- I appreciate the coverage of my question but what I find interesting is just how hard it is for the media to actually cover the big media. And, when faced with evidence to the contrary, the CEO can just say, “No, your hard evidence is wrong.” and go about his business. [...]
Also, it would be nice if someone in the trade press or financial press would acknowledge when the people have an impact on big media.
The people at Color of Change put together an amazing advertiser alert program. They convinced 81 advertisers that Beck’s race baiting is something they did not want to be associated with.
Another group, stopbeck.com, had a twitter campaign that convinced more advertisers to leave.
The standard line is that public corporations are supposed to “maximize shareholder value”. When they don’t, their shareholders are supposed to call them on it. The NewsCorp shareholders should want to know why Fox isn’t making MORE money on Glenn Beck’s show.
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