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With Sinclair, We Have Trump TV. America Doesn’t Need More.

We must rediscover the term “public good,” holding entities like Sinclair and Fox News to account for disseminating outlandish propaganda. Yes, we treasure our First Amendment, but we also treasure our democracy.

Maybe it’s time to bring back the Fairness Doctrine. Certainly it is time to force the F.C.C. to follow the law and fulfill its mandate under our laws to promote diversity of access to the public airwaves. In the end, we must all rededicate ourselves to democracy. Allowing our media to become the province of a few ideological extremists bent on ownership of our airwaves is not just bad for the republic. It could be its end.”

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50 Years Ago

50 years ago today, Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey had its galactic premiere at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C. on April 2, 1968, forever changing my young—and ultimately providing wholly unrealistic—expectations of the future

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I Actually Like This One

A couple years ago I wrote a post deriding Zombie House Flipping (although I can’t seem to find it now).

I gave it another chance a few weeks ago because there wasn’t anything else on that night worth watching and discovered that either the format or the crew—or more likely, I—had changed, and I actually didn’t hate it. Yeah, there’s a hell of a lot of poorly staged, obvious drama, but by and large the houses the guys flip actually look pretty good when they’re finished.

I love what was done to this house. It was from an episode where the sole girl on the team was given full reign over the project. It was a sad, dreary little 60s-era box that disappeared into the vegetation. Now it stands out and screams 21st Century. I really like the colors and materials they chose for the remodel, and while I’m not as enamored with some of the design choices that were made on the interior, enclosing the open carport—turning it into a proper garage—and rotating the roof ninety degrees to its original orientation after determining the entire structure needed to be replaced was a stroke of design genius as far as I’m concerned.



After one brief visit to Florida in 1993, I’ve always fantasized about living there, but the politics, the hurricanes (and now the inevitable rising sea level) are what have kept that fantasy at bay. Still, I like what I saw of the lifestyle (at least on the west coast where I was staying) at the time, and if the place wasn’t so sure to be underwater, it still might be something to consider.

But then there’s the humidity. And the bugs. Oh lord, the bugs…

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Gratuitous Dylan McDermott

I’ve always found Mr. McDermott hella sexy, but at the same time I’ve only seen him in serious roles (the masturbation scene in AHS Season One—OMG). In Fox’s L.A. to Vegas, we get to see in something most definitely not serious. With him playing Captain Dave Pratman, I don’t know if it’s his comedic side shining through, the uniform, the mustache/soul patch, or a combination of all three, but damn, that man gives me impure thoughts!





Woof.

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