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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I love Heather Havrilesky's column, but 30 Rock is a lame, unfunny show, and Tina Fey is a lame, unfunny heroine. I didn't like Mean Girls, either. Fey has too many agendas to really be funny. She's always trying to make an ideological point. Even her schlumpy persona on this show is geared to make an ideological point. It's dull.
Baldwin isn't good either. He's playing a tired concept, and the writing isn't snappy enough or inventive enough to find a new way to present it.
Tracy Morgan is something I would have thought him incapbable of: unfunny.
By the way, I liked Ally McBeal, at least until it fell apart in the last two seasons. I prefer agressive, funny comedy to schmaltzy "gee-aren't-I-the-unappreciated-intellectual" little-guy comedy.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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