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Letter of The Week

11 Jan

January 11, 2011

From the New York Daily News, January 10th, 2011.

I fail to see the problem here. They aired The Honeymooners at one in the afternoon on a day when most people are home and sleep late. Should channel 11 have shown it at one in the morning and forced an old man to stay up to the wee hours of the night? Did he really want to be up, at age 63, watching TV at 4 am? Is this an overreaction, or can someone explain this to me? And while you’re at it, explain to me why this guy felt the need to write to the newspaper about it.

By way of comparison, these were the news stories of that day:

  • The gunman who shot a Congresswoman arraigned in court
  • Ex- House leader Tom DeLay gets three-year prison term
  • NYC begins investigation of snowstorm’s inept response
  • Wife of White House Aide found dead
  • Model charged with killing journalist
  • Honeymooners does not air until 1 pm on New Years Day (Just kidding)
  • Richard “Dick” Winters, decorated hero of World War II and the central figure in “Band of Brothers” died
  • 8 dead in Australian flooding
  • Protest over “gay only” toilets
  • 14-year old gunned down in Bronx

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Politics In Our Time.

10 Jan

January 9, 2011

Ah, the oft-overlooked Green Party. Not exactly a political powerhouse, as the chart below demonstrates.

Perhaps the fact that they are led by seven co-chairs has something to do with it. And the fact that Ralph Nader (good guy, but one-note) has twice headed their Presidential ticket doesn’t help.

Neither does this, as gleaned from Ol’ Reliable, AKA News of the Weird:

The Green Party is occasionally criticized for its overrepresentation of whites and upper-income people, who are less likely to flinch at the added costs of environmental protections. In October, the Green Party candidate for governor of Illinois, Rich Whitney, was shocked to see that the sample ballot for the November election mistakenly displayed his name as “Rich Whitey.”  (Corrections were made in time for election day.) [Washington Post-AP, 10-15-10]

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