I was going to post this zeitgeist on Friday but there were problems with Blogger. So here it is, a little stale:

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What is wrong with people, anyway? Rioters set fire to hundreds of vehicles in an eighth night of unrest in the impoverished suburbs of northeastern Paris .

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Awww...okay, now, the cutest news story in weeks, male mice sing to prospective mates. Their real songs are outside the range of human hearing, but if you slow a recording down, the singing mice sound like this. A lot like birds, in fact.

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From the Internet Movie Database: MSNBC talkshow host Keith Olbermann claimed he had been chastised by a company vice president two years ago for interviewing two liberal entertainers, Janeane Garofalo and Al Franken on consecutive nights. The IMDB mentions this incident as a follow-up to canceling Phil Donahue's talkshow in February 2003 -- Donahue claims it was because "we were the only antiwar voice that had a show, and that, I think, made them very nervous. I mean, from the top down, they were just terrified. We had to have two conservatives on for every liberal. I was counted as two liberals." Press releases at the time claimed "low ratings" were the reason, and the show certainly did have very low ratings...in August 2002. However, the ratings had been climbing dramatically during the lead-up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq when it was the only politically liberal show on television, so that at the time it was canceled it was actually MSNBC's top rated show.

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Yes, a moderate majority now seem to recognize that Bush is an incompetent liar, and yes, I'm doing a little jig. But how does that help me now? You guys couldn't have noticed this obvious fact a year ago?