Thank you! At the second episode of the third season I actually started screaming at the television "kill them all!" I desperately wanted the terrorist/bad guys to win. I really wanted someone to please kill off Kim.

About 1/2 way through the third season, we couldn't even watch anymore and I would actually scream at the television for them to all die just at any 24 commercial.

The characters are so completely unsympathetic at this point; you can't even root for anyone. Also the constant doom and ridiculousness of the non-stop world ending events just wears you out watching it.

If you think that Kerry messing up this joke is going to blow the election for the Democrats, then you need to start doing some work yourselves! I mean really! Are you letting your local media outlets know what spineless creeps they are for running this crap for the GOP news cycle after news cycle? Why don't you remind them of their total lack of coverage for what the GOP did in 2004 when the whole of the convention mocked Kerry's purple heart and his service to our country. Anybody remember that?

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/30/gop.purple.hearts/index.html

It certainly got fewer new cycles then this one joke is getting!

Why on earth does his messed up joke get this ridiculous coverage and umbrage when it is just jiffy fine for the GOPers to slam his service and other war heroes to the country over and over.

If you think that Kerry's gonna blow this election over this, you are totally unaware. If the voters go for that, they weren't going to vote Democrat anyway and they were probably the same group that mocked him and other war heroes in 2004.

I'm not going to slam Salon for bringing back Camille. What's the point? I don't expect them to not publish writers and articles that I personally think is a complete waste of time. Instead, I just don't waste my time reading them.

My personal view is that I can't stand her. So, I won't read her articles. Good enough for me.

I'm not going to cancel my Salon subscription over it but it is one more straw that is making me gag more than not lately.

One day I guess that final straw will fall. Who knows.

George Takei is too awesome for words.

I find it interesting that all these people yelling that Carol can't take a joke never assume that the Carol Burnett Show got PERMISSION from the owners of the characters/storylines before lampooning them in a skit.

The point is that they used a copyrighted character without permission.

The lawsuit isn't about being unhappy about a parody. It is a COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT Lawsuit. The charwoman character is copyrighted like any other character out there.

A parody is when someone imitates a piece of artwork, music or show for satirical effect.

Copyright law prohibits the substantial use of a copyrighted work without permission of the copyright owner. Simple. Since Carol did not give permission to use her character, music, signature ear tug....the Family Guy bunch have to assume that Fair Use will cover them.

For the Fair Use law to cover them, they have to prove that the parody is a valid parody. The other big hit is that Fair Use is often NOT seen as a valid defense when the work is commercial. The Family Guy group made money on that show. That is a hit against them. If it was something that was on a free leaflet and it was a legitimate free speech satire against Carol, then I'm guessing she couldn't touch it or would have a harder time.

Add in that our copyright laws REQUIRE copyright holders to vigorously defend their copyrights in order to keep it from moving into the public domain. The charwoman is not a character we currently see out there in new works or on our TV very often anymore. Carol would be stupid to not defend the heck out of her copyright.

I have to say with each day of blogging I read of Glen's, I am so relieved that someone is finally saying all the things I think and just don't have the skill to write so eloquently. When I was in college, I was a journalism major for my first 2 semesters. I always knew that was what I wanted to do and it only took two semesters to make me realize that the crop of people following that path were nothing like journalists. I work in software now.

Thank you so much for stating the painfully obvious things that more and more of America is understanding and the "journalists" are so sadly missing. Maybe one day, they will get a clue. I'm not hopeful but maybe.

Maybe I'm totally weird on this. But when I hear someone say "You look smart today" or "Don't you look smart", I don't think they are referring to my intelligence.

To look smart can also mean to look dashing or extremely neat or trim in appearance. It also means looking sophisticated or fashionable.

So, where I do see the oddness of that tagline, I don't think it is necessarily only saying you look "intelligent" with bigger boobs.