I’m pleasantly surprised that the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education is coming to the defense of a GMU student who put up fliers protesting military recruiters on campus. I really thought they were just a right-wing mouthpiece that was going to demand that every student who wrote a paper on intelligent design get an A.
I love Arrested Development and I’m sad to see it go, but a lot of the criticism of FOX from its fans is overblown and unfair:
Arrested Development is on the worst network at the worst time with the worst shows. This may have helped the most critically acclaimed comedy on TV attract the five or six people who are fans of Prison Break and Kitchen Confidential, but for the rest of us, Monday nights on Fox is hardly the ideal venue for your best show. Especially when the already shitty schedule is interrupted for a month by baseball and is about to be interrupted again to make room for a double-helping of Prison Break during sweeps.
What this ignores is that for two years FOX gave it one of the best timeslots in all of television - Sunday night after The Simpsons - and probably the best timeslot in television HISTORY for a “quirky” comedy. They are pulling it for sweeps, but that’s because, as everyone admits, nobody watches it.
The other thing to keep in mind is that FOX was the only network that would dream of putting Arrested Development – and Married With Children, and The Simpsons, and The Family Guy, and Futurama, and Malcolm in the Middle, and Bernie Mac, and America’s Most Incompetent Government Organization – on TV in the first place. Everything you can say about FOX’s close-mindedness in this debacle is doubly true of the Big Three.
Ah, the joys of campaign finance “reform”:
HR 4194 is sponsored by Shays and Meehan, and only those two, as they honestly have no clue what they’ve gotten into. Their complete lack of understanding of this medium would be quaint and cute, for two old out-of-touch luddites, if it didn’t have such real-world repercussions.
Of course, by opposing campaign finance reform, Kos is proving that he hates democracy and supports fascism. At least, that’s what I get accused of when I oppose this crap.
Also, I’m liking Harry Reid more every day.
Over at Crooked Timber, John Quiggin lays the smack down on Jacques Chirac from the left:
Much of the reason why French Gaullists annoy US Republicans is that they have so much in common. There’s little doubt that, if Chirac had the kind of global power that Bush does, he’d abuse it in exactly the same way. Australians and New Zealanders, who’ve seen Chirac and his predecessors throwing their weight around in the South Pacific (long used as the site for French nuclear tests), are well aware of this. The same kind of heavy-handedness is evident in domestic policy and seems to have contributed to the riots.
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