Sometimes google is just not the right idea. t /random

I used to Love To Hate their TV critic but then she wrote her column in Deadwood speak and says she is a Wire fan, so had to take her Off Notice. Still miss Joyce Millman, though.

My main gripe with Salon in its current incarnation is still the shitty-ass decision to turn the letters to the editor section into a barely-moderated posting board. It's unpleasant, depressing, venomous, and also totally incomprehensible since they still have TT so it's not like readers have no other options for instant gratification and feedback.

Also, I'm feeling all sour over how little they print anymore of Joe Conason or Ann Lamott, easily my two favorite writers there. And on the rare occasions that either one does post an essay it's immediately answered by eleventy jillion rabid letters from representatives of the far ends of the political spectrum crucifying them for their various sins of moderation and reasonableness and being either too hardheadedly practical or too moonbattily idealistic, with subsets of attack dogs lunging at Conason's throat for being a Clinton ass-kisser and Lamott's for either pretending to be both Christian and intelligent or, in her more personal essays, daring to suggest that parenting is not 24/7/365 sunshine and roses and snugglepuppies.

It makes me think fondly and lovingly of the Onion's editorial policy (last item in the FAQ).

Oh, that Gawker response to the Forbes idiocy is a thing of beauty!

Yeah, I don't write letters to the ed for the same reason I skip talk radio...don't want to be One of Those. ETA: That looks funny next to my tag...bwah!

Yeah, that Survivor thing is bananas. They had to recruit like 80% of the contestants, so there are a ton of actors etc.

You mean like all of the minorities? but you know that people will watch it. Hell, I might check it out. Sociologically, this will be a learning experience for a lot of people. They will realize that not all _____ people are the same. You'd think that they know that, but no. I do a lecture about the legal cases that affect education, and I talk about the Michigan case and "critical mass", which is loosely defined (by me) as the number of minorities necessary to demonstrate that minorities have the same kind of variety as the majority. I use OJ as a demonstration. "A lot of white people think that all black people think that OJ was innocent. In fact, some black people do think he was innocent. But a lot of black people do not. I personally think that he was guilty as hell, and just had good lawyers" I also have been known to use R. Kelly for demonstrative purposes.

Dear Thread,

a gift.

Since you been gone (head bounce x3) I can breathe for the first time.

love, my earworm

Hey, does anyone know what msbelle is talking about?

Dear msbelle,

She is the prom queen, I'm in the marching band
She is a cheerleader, I'm sitting in the stands
She gets the top bunk, I'm sleeping on the floor
She's Miss America and I'm just the girl next door

Love, my earworm

Saving Jane is a local band. I've seen then in so many small bars, I can't believe they made the big time. At least not with that song.

Since you been gone (head bounce x3) I can breathe for the first time.

I'm so moving on....yeah yeah! Now I get, Yeah I get, I get what I waaaant!