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Getting paid is the name of the game. Sigh.

I've fallen madly in love with McKay's music over the past few weeks. But seriously, Elizabeth Hasselbeck is so vacuous I want to put a gun to my head. Actually, first her's, and then mine, in that order.

And yeah, the song is called "I Wanna Get Married," but pay attention to the lyrics. How much more sardonic can she be? Man, are those ladies dense. People actually watch this show? I'm blown away.

Moral guidance from Stephen Colbert, via his NY Times Op-ed piece:

On faith: "After Jesus was born, the Old Testament became a way for Bible publishers to keep their word count up."
On gender: "The sooner we accept the basic differences between men and women, the sooner we can stop arguing about it and start having sex."
On race: "While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad."
On the elderly: "They look like lizards."

From the page: "We are, as far as urban public education is concerned, essentially at rock bottom. We are now at a point where we are essentially churning out ignorant teens who are becoming ignorant adults and society as a whole will pay dearly, very soon, and if you think the hordes of easily terrified, mindless fundamentalist evangelical Christian lemmings have been bad for the soul of this country, just wait.

"...The dystopian evidence seems overwhelming indeed, to the point where it might be no stretch at all to say the biggest threat facing America is perhaps not global warming, not perpetual warmongering, not garbage food or low-level radiation or way too much Lindsay Lohan, but a populace far too ignorant to know how to properly manage any of it, much less change it all for the better."

In creating "The Wire," Simon said, he and his colleagues had "ripped off the Greeks: Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides. Not funny boy-- not Aristophanes. We've basically taken the idea of Greek tragedy and applied it to the modern city-state."

He went on, "What we were trying to do was take the notion of Greek tragedy, of fated and doomed people, and instead of these Olympian gods, indifferent, venal, selfish, hurling lightning bolts and hitting people in the ass for no reason-- instead of those guys whipping it on Oedipus or Achilles, it's the postmodern institutions...those are the indifferent gods."

What a fucking genius that David Simon is.

My stumble blog is fast becoming a tribute page for The Wire. Sorry. I can't help it. Here's Steve Earle performing a cover of Tom Waits' "Way Down in the Hole," on his new album. It will be used as the theme song for the upcoming season.