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Good News
This is the best news I have heard in weeks:
The Sopranos,” the most successful series in the history of cable television, will not end with its fifth season but will instead have one more, lasting 10 episodes, Brad Grey, one of the show’s executive producers, said last night.
With the additional season, “The Sopranos” will end with 75 episodes on HBO, enough for a potential sale in syndication, which is likely to be among the most lucrative ever for a cable program.
“The big issue was the creative one that David had to make,” Mr. Grey said, referring to the show’s creator, David Chase. “He had to decide whether he had more stories to tell, and he decided that he did.”
As long as the last two seasons are as good as the first two, this is great news.
Scrappleface
Scott Ott is a genius:
The American Medical Association endorsed human cloning Tuesday morning, but later in the day reversed the decision upon discovering that malpractice attorneys could be cloned.
“At first, we thought it was strictly a scientific decision whether to allow lumps of protoplasm to be replicated,” said an unnamed AMA spokesman. “However, when one of our members suggested that the technique might be used to increase the number of malpractice attorneys, we realized that it was really an ethical issue. We stand on the side of good versus evil, and call on Congress to ban cloning now.”
If I Have to Say This Every Day, I Will
The current Prescription Drug Benefit/Medicare Giveaway/AARP Vote Buying Scheme, whatever you want to call it, the estimated $400 billion dollar (which will balloon to a trillion in no time) albatross Bush and the Legislature are about to hang around our neck, is not means tested.
That’s right- You and I are going to be paying for Donald Trump’s viagra and Ross Perot’s Ritalin. Happy Happy, Joy Joy!
Laurence Simon, Cyber Detective
Amish Tech Support has the goods on Orrin Hatch’s copyright abuse.
(via the Blogfather)
Racial Profiling
President Bush, in a move that has already sparked a great deal of debate, yesterday issued the following guidelines regarding racial profiling:
President Bush issued the first broad ban on racial profiling by federal law enforcement agencies yesterday, but included exceptions permitting use of race and ethnicity to combat potential terrorist attacks.
The new policy covers about 120,000 officers at 70 federal agencies with law enforcement powers. It prohibits the use of “generalized stereotypes” based on race or ethnicity, and allows officers to consider them only as part of a specific description or tip from an informant.
“Routine patrol duties must be carried out without consideration of race,” the Justice Department policy states. “Stereotyping certain races as having a greater propensity to commit crimes is absolutely prohibited.”
There are limited exceptions:
A summary said the policy will not take away any “tools needed to identify terrorist threats and stop potential catastrophic attacks.”
The document cites the hypothetical case of a report by intelligence sources “that Middle Eastern terrorists are planning to use commercial jetliners as weapons by hijacking them at an airport in California during the next week.”
“Before allowing men appearing to be of Middle Eastern origin to board commercial airplanes in California airports during the next week, Transportation Security Administration personnel, and other federal and state authorities, may subject them to heightened scrutiny,” the document states.
Sounds reasonable. What is the reaction of the left? Take a guess- uniformly negative:
The Bastard Bush
How long before this is blamed on Bush and Cheney and the neo-fascist cabal in Washington:
More Americans Seeking Help for Depression By MARY DUENWALD
More than half of the Americans who suffer from depression now seek treatment, up from one-third 10 years ago, a new survey says. Yet nearly 60 percent of the people in treatment do not receive adequate care, the researchers found.
Just curious, you know.