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How Much Freaking Shrimp Did You Serve Them Bros?

Like quite a number of people who follow this stuff, I was practically incredulous when we learned what the Democrats’ most recent investment into somehow cracking the bro code produced for them.  POLITICO’s Elena Schneider was among those who broke said details yesterday: It “reaffirms what young men already think, that Democrats don’t want to

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News Notions

Nostra-Dumb-Ass Is Back?

When the news broke last week that Elon Musk’s days in Washington were over I almost felt bad for the dude.  Emphasis on the word ALMOST.  I mean, it’s hard to have sympathy for someone who celebrated the termination of thousands of careers with a chain saw and a salute of questionable (at best) significance

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Media Musings

Tudum And Dumber

As many regular readers know, I am an unabashed supporter of Rick Ellis and his TOO MUCH TV newsletters, mostly because unlike most of his contemporaries, especially those who cash checks from a conglomerate called Penske, he’s unabashed and unfiltered and, more than often, spot on.  Someone who I dare say I share many of

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He’s Earned This Promotion.  If You Want To Call It One.
Media Musings

He’s Earned This Promotion. If You Want To Call It One.

There’s scant few shows of any kind that have had the kind of relative stability than has been seen with NBC NIGHTLY NEWS.  When the show was retitiled and shifted to a single anchor after the retirement of the Chet half of the HUNTLEY-BRINKLEY REPORT (that would have been Huntley for those not of a

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Media Musings

The Whole Studio’s Goin’ Fishing.

NOTE:  This musing also appears today on our sister site, DoubleOvertime.  Please visit it regularly for coverage of sports of all sorts plus occasional coverage of and opinion pieces on technology. When the New York Knicks’ modestly inspiring run at NBA championship glory ended last night for the 52nd consecutive year, they became the latest

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Media Musings

Three To Go

It’s amazing how much ability one can have to make one’s way through the logjam of decent streaming TV when one combines a rare day off and a bout of constipation and muscle spasms to go along with one’s seemingly chronic insomnia.  But for someone like moi that actually provided me an opportunity to make

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Media Musings

Lethargy Unleashed?

The story that VARIETY’s Brian Steinberg dropped yesterday was hardly the biggest one of the day.  After all, the Chrisleys are once again free people and all of a sudden that upcoming Lifetime reality series just got a little more promotable. But, hey, at least Lifetime’s producing something original.  That’s more than can be said

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Media Musings

Generation FX Is Clearly In Charge

Later this week FX will turn 31, which is usually the delineation point that even the most tolerant and liberal parents use to finally concede that someone that old should be self-sufficient–or at least in a position to materially contribute to the family business.  It was also born in the same year that was FRIENDS,

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