RE: Fox’s Right-Wing Alternative To Daily Show Fails

Shine claimed the reason for the shelving of the show was that Fox is “considering ways to retool the show for future scheduling needs.” He held out the chance that the show would air again: “There is still a chance you will see the program at some point in the future.”

I'm sure we can expect to see it's ugly head again for the '08 election, securing it's place as the voice of the republican media.

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Oh the humanity! Oh the hyoomanity... :'(

While it seems like many of my republican friends and family members have a complete absence of satire in their life, I don't—judging by how much they rely on sarcasm to try and prove a point—think they wouldn't appreciate it.

It failed because it was unfunny...

Sad. All the republicans have to laugh at now is themselves (America's Funniest Home Videos).

Freeman Dyson has always been something of a hero to me and this article confirms why. His comments on modeling climate particulary resonate with me since so much of this science is highly suspect. The inability of even the most sophisticated models to predict anything accurately has always made me wonder on what the complete contempt for anyone who anyone who questions the orthodoxy of greenhouse gas driven warming is based. I've come to realize from haunting my favourite websites (like C&L,Pharyngula etc. ) that it is something like buying a cable package: there is always some basic package of beliefs that one is expected to unquestioningly support. This seems to be true even of sites devoted to skepticism.

the dyson article was terrific. i've mentioned before that my dad was a student/fan of jake bronowski, who has appeared here before. i don't know if i mentioned he was also a student of loren eisely. i was lucky enough to have met both of these men because of my fathers relationship to them. anyway, i sent the dyson article to pops, telling him that it reminded me of him, and he surprised me by telling me he's been a fan of dyson for many years, and that he considers him to be from the loren eisely school of thought.

just thought you might be interested, norm. if you like dyson, you should check out eisely. and thanks for posting this most excellent article.

Regarding Fox Daily Show Rip-off:

Totally separate from who's right, wrong, or left*, "the Right" is so passe, so yesterday. the chickens of their spectacular success are coming to roost. Their ubiquity is tiresome. We've heard it all ad nauseum. Gaggggg...

Limbaugh, and especially Grover Norquist are my personal pets Peeves:

"Peeves derives joy from mischievous acts, causing more of disruptions rather than actually being violent and dangerous. As a "spirit of chaos," it is his entire purpose to cause disorder, break things, and be as annoying and disruptive as possible."

But:

That's when he/they are FICTIONAL.

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*Personally, I am "left" only in the sense that I am left OUT of all these categories of all these years. Norm needs to write a book, the title: "Beyond Left and Right". He'll be famous. Freeman Dyson surely is the inspiration for some or another character I've seen "in the movies". At least a couple of times. A veritable Archetype