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We just seem to keep going backwards. We are now running "me love you long time" type attack ads. Is there any minority group we aren't supposed to hate? http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/02/five-ads-featuring-smiling-asians-celebrating-americas-demise.php?ref=fpa

I'm glad to hear such positive reviews. No matter what, Madonna always puts on a show, even as so many other pop divas have full scale meltdowns that leave them permanently scarred.

August 1984 Digest

August 1984 Digest

From an August 1984 Digest

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyIn6eay9Mw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdiWGP-e8Hc&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjMAYQrI_Ds&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_AJbdaZPlI&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7N2zemJkKo&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-KAg62eT2c http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPRndFotHHM&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDcHb2aXlk0&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpo9G5pJzR4&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL

Please don't tell me this MIA person is going to give us another Janet Jackson's nipple. This is the perfect time too - an election year. I still remember that woman in Congress weeping because of a nipple. I can't take it again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KTOpmRpGuc

I think the problem is there's no real trend in music now. It's just been this boring, forgettable, autotuned slog for ages.

Elton looks like a corpse.

The first two parts of this aren't available. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liAnW6_0mIk&feature=mfu_channel&list=UL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqW7G3fhuUM

To no surprise, Mitt Romney won the Nevada caucuses last night. Apparently turnout was much lower than expected, which has been the case throughout the primary. I guess people know it's just a shell game and are looking forward to November. Meanwhile, another media favorite, Virginia governor Bob McDonnell, who, along with Chris Christie and Mitch Daniels (and, until he ran a horrendous campaign and dropped out, "T-Paw"), has been seen as the great white hope for the party, will now get a hard right legislature to push the views he has been supporting for many years. Good luck to the people suffering through this. Do you notice how this is framed to make it seem as if these views are somehow being pushed on him and whatever choice he makes will be some noble decision? http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/mcdonnell-wanted-conservative-assembly-now-its-right-turn-forces-hard-choices-of-vp-prospect/2012/02/05/gIQA7FEirQ_story.html All the controversy over Komen and Planned Parenthood ultimately led to the usual finger-pointing and a non-ending which appeased the press, but this article was better than usual for AP. http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jv8C7ApOOz3ZXyAYBNHDPMMbfU7Q?docId=e5b9d00aa21e4c34bb7ee79f70508002 I never knew a lot about Komen, but from what I've read since this whole thing blew up, apparently they are against research into whether the environment causes breast cancer (toxins, chemicals, etc.)? That bothers me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLY9R0xFH84

I have some of the SOD 1984 recaps. January 17 and January 31 issues.

I'm always a few months behind in my watching of the show (which means some episodes get erased from my DVR - ugh!), but I think they are currently in mid-2008, or early fall 2008. Which of the characters at that time had been around for a long period? I know Harriet, Parsons, Napethne (?), Letti, Barker, Len, had all been around for quite a while. Who were your favorites? Mine are probably Farrow, and Paul. I also have a soft spot for Rajesh. It's fascinating to me, contrasting Generations and Isidingo. Generations feels so much like an old school American soap to me - it is far from perfect, but it reminds me of what I used to love with GL and ATWT. Isidingo I am more interested in some of the complicated characters, and the stories are so sweeping. I do think that the power struggles and the everyday comic characters are an odd fit, especially when the show crosses them together, like having the local comic crimelord convince Barker that his daughter Lee had been murdered. Lee's death was so sad, and so eerie, as Ashley Callie died not long after scenes where Lee's mother died (offcamera) and Lee and Barker spoke of whether there was an afterlife. You could see how much the actors loved Ashley Callie. The aftermath, with Barker having a nervous breakdown, is chilling.