The "fired" attorneys should all just start going back to their jobs, since no one ever fired them.

If challenged, they should ask on whose authority they were fired. If there's no answer, they can obviously go back to work. If there is an answer, go to that person and ask if he/she takes responsibility for the firing. Keep doing this until the buck stops somewhere or they have their jobs back.

Having someone along to film all of this would be handy but probably not feasible.

1. If a reviewer does not write in such a way as to please every reader, she is a Bad Reviewer.

2. If a TV reviewer writes about TV instead of politics, she is a Bad Reviewer.

3. Something is preventing me from seeing butts on these pages, possibly my hosts file or ad filters. I'm not sure if this is a good thing or not.

4. There was a Drinky Crow pilot, and I missed it?!? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Why is it that, whenever W has to answer a question that he doesn't want to answer, he sounds like a second grader trying to fake a book report for a book he hasn't read?

Ok nonaligned bloc dominated by the Arab states, you can officially sit on your fat asses and do nothing for the next 40 years as a salve to your bruised egos.

and

The nonaligned nations are dominated by 68 largely or predominately Muslim states. They generally vote as a bloc. 68 on its own is about a third. Add to that peripheral countries that lean in their direction, politically, yeah you get domination. I'm sorry your innumeracy tripped you up.

Come see the amazing moving goalposts! Arab = Muslim countries = countries who lean politically towards Muslim countries! Why, half the world must be Arabs! I'm not, though -- I like Japanese culture, which makes me Japanese instead.

George Bush is an evil person. Why he is so angry at his own country and particularly those from a Red State who voted for him twice and an Army who followed his orders into hell goes beyond the pale. It's evil. I wonder if he was abused as a child and this is his way of getting even with his parents for either doing it or allowing it to happen, or covering it up. Being a drunk can only answer part of the perverted debauchery he apparently is enjoying at the very expense of his supporters!

It may be evil, but I don't think he's particularly angry; nor is he celebrating. I think it's more of a "banality of evil" situation, and a combination of entitlement and indifference.

Also, I truly believe that he is kept pretty much doped to the gills with xanax or some other happy pills most of the time. George and Laura both. That's why he always seems so cheerful.

A particular episode of a popular show that I helped write/produce was leaked onto YouTube immediately after airing. I am going to get paid less. Am I happy about that? Would you be?

I'm not sniping here, this is a genuinely curious question.

Why would you get paid less in this situation? Programs make their money through advertising -- surely they can't take that money back based on the show appearing on YouTube?

If the show were shown on the TV networks website, they would get the revenue for the ads and then the writer would get paid as per the negotiated rate. When its shown on YouTube google gets the ad money and the network, who paid to make the show, doesn't get any of it.

OK, that makes sense.

I would suggest, then, that broadcasters should spend at least some of the time and money they're using for legal battles, and instead spend it on making their websites more appealing and functional. As several people in this thread have already pointed out, Comedy Central's site is a pain in the ass; of course people are going to prefer YouTube.

In other words, as distasteful as it sounds, IP owners are ultimately going to have to treat these thieves and pirates as competitors, and minimize their impact by making their own legitimate sources more appealing.

Sue iTunes, sue YouTube, sue Napster, sue anyone who dares to distribute your crappy music in any way, shape, or form, and clutch it and your rights to it to your black corporate bosom, where it will fester and never see the light of day.

PLEASE!!!

...and here I thought it was a Laurie Anderson reference.

"La segunda pregunta es: Que es mas macho, lightbulb o schoolbus?"

If you're going to start putting video clips in War Room, please provide transcripts for those of us who can't watch videos without disturbing nearby cow orkers.

There's a reason I avoid Video Dog; I'd hate for War Room to become similarly useless to me for most of the day.

I was just thinking about Charley when reading about the sitcom which will feature the Geico cavemen. It's going to be awful drek, but I was wondering if they'll have any funny moments at all, and if so, if they'll all be ripped off from Charley.

Yes, the leaked pilot was completely wretched. I'll be surprised if they even air it.

Do we have to assign black and white hats to everyone? Aren't most of the actors in this play partially responsible for what went wrong?

It's like the cigarette companies and smokers; one group which is wealthy and powerful preying on people's innate weaknesses. Predators and prey, just like in nature, except that as sentient beings we're supposed to be able to think things through. Unfortunately, in these cases, neither one is bothering to think about the long term consequences.

And then, of course, people who'd rather grind axes than do any of their own thinking jump on one side or the other, and we're back to the black and white hats.

Oh well.