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Futurama is on Cartoon Network in the evenings now, along with Family Guy and a plethora of other....less child like animation shows. check your local listings for details.

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Politics of fear eh?

The Daily Show and an ever more bitter and enboldend John Stuart (who it seemed to me used to be honestly disturbed that his show was taken as anything more than satire) as a news sorce eh?

Why not just get your news from SNL?

If SNL was in the least bit funny anymore, I might watch it. :)

I'm sure The Daily Show is not any more biasedd that mostnew sources - and it's more entertaining.

Truly SNL sucks now.

Again, the whole fear thing....

All weekend long, whenever I had any sort of news program on (whether Meet the Press or whatever), the topic of conversation was frequently Ernesto.

Ernesto wasn't even that big yesterday, but this morning it only has max sustained winds of 45mph, and with the current track taking it directly over Cuba, it will most likely weaken more, and then have 90 or so miles from Cuba to southern FL, during which much strengthening isn't likely.

It would seem that the press suffers from a kind of inertia. Last year a hurricane was the big story so they must be important this year as well. :rolleyes:

It's the season to highlight what went wrong with the President's promise to take care of Katrina damage, whatever it takes. Looking at those shortfalls at the one-year anniversary takes on a certain narrative consistency if there's a hurricane a'comin.'

The season won't last long. We're about to enter 5-year anniversary nine eleven season, and all the hand-wringing about what hasn't been done in five years to protect the American People from terrorist attack.



Fearmongering or not ... I think the convergence of the two stories paints a pretty grim picture of how our government attends to the big dangers that have beset Americans in the last half-decade.

Ernesto has time - and enough open sea - to return to hurricane strength before hitting the Keys and Southern Florida. Or at least that is what was reported 20 minutes ago.

In this case, I dont think it is fear but reality. We all know the damage a bad hurricane at the "right" spot can do and we also know just how useless our government is in helping mop up. One can't help think "what if". But, Hurricane season is just getting started - we're only on the letter "E".