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Writer’s Strike Breakdown

Posted at 12:13 PM

The Daily Show and The Colbert Report:

Both shows air on Viacom’s Comedy Central cable channel and would likely be replaced by reruns for a period if a strike happened. But the company does not expect much of its other television programming to be affected. - (Via MSNBC.)

Oh good, Mind of Mencia will still be able to satirize society with it’s rapier wit about “De de dees”. Huzzah (can you feel the utter hatred in my sarcasm?). How will this affect Mr. Colbert’s (already doomed?) faux-presidential run?

The Office (US):

OT: How many finished and unaired episodes are there right now? — Survivor Man, The Deposition, plus how many more? Staffer: That’s really it. There are a few other scripts that could theoretically be shot, but my guess is that The Deposition will be the last completed episode we have unless this thing is resolved. - (Via OfficeTally.)

It’s especially interesting to see what will happen with The Office since so many of the show’s writers are also actors in it, which I think is unique to 30 Rock, and a few other shows…

The Office (UK) and Curb Your Enthusiasm:

Writers want more money for DVD sales and other forms of media. At one point they were going to work under their old deal until the end of this season, but now things have changed. The networks have been stockpiling on scripts and orders for reality shows just in case. And NBC is adding a twist: they’re thinking about adding the UK version of The Office and HBO’s Curb Your Enthusiasm. - (Via TVSquad.)

I’m glad that more people will get to watch these shows I love, but it won’t do anything for me. I expect middle America won’t get David Brent or Larry David, but that’s pretty obvious. When Two and a Half Men has been the top-rated sitcom for what, four years now, it’s obvious that challenging comedy isn’t really interesting to most people yet.

On a personal level, I think the strike is a good idea as I’d want the same sort of solidarity if I were a Television writer, which is one of my aspirations. But yeah… I’ll miss the shows.

The Pirate Bay Sponsors Rock Band

TorrentFreak:

The Pirate Bay is featuring the Swedish glam rock band “Lamont” on their frontpage. Unlike the major record labels, Lamont recognizes the power of filesharing and they give away their album for free. Not without success, over 100,000 people downloaded their album in less than 24 hours, numbers that other artists can only dream of.

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Musharraf Declares Emergency Rule

Gen. Pervez Musharraf:

WHEREAS a situation has thus arisen where the Government of the country cannot be carried on in accordance with the Constitution and as the Constitution provides no solution for this situation, there is no way out except through emergent and extraordinary measures;

Is it not the case, however, that this very action, with its emphasis on restoring law and order and “balance” qua balance of powers, in fact serves to radically undermine it by exposing within it the law’s own inherent deadlock? Law qua law, which is “ex-timate” to itself, acted out by the object-instrument of state authority and retroactively justified on the basis of “subjects supposed to believe” (in this case, in the constitution, modernity, etc.), rather illustrates the very lack of belief among those upon whom belief has been a priori conferred-displaced. In that sense, in a kind of Hegelian direct coincidence of the opposites, this action shows law as unlawful, as its pure opposite. By the same token, the so-called “war on terror” can be read in a similar way: the very act of fighting terror by means that can be most certainly evoked and defined as terror par excellence, results in the promotion and exponentiation of the very activity that it seeks to destroy.

The more interesting principle or perhaps idea to be drawn from this conclusion, however, is not the simple obvious one: that law must only serve itself as long as it doesn’t exceed itself, transgressing into a territory outside the bounds of its symbolic space (what one would call “unlawful”), but instead that law, as a concept and in application, is inherently unlawful, i.e., that it relies upon an initial wound, or cut, of the unlawful, in order to justify itself as legitimate. Perhaps that’s why “founding violences” of states are so prevalent and mysterious in all of their noumenal Real status.

Ron Paul Secures The Crucial Neo-Nazi Vote

StormFront:

Do patriotic White Americans finally have a candidate they can vote for without fear of being sold out again?

It appears they do! Finally a candidate that White America can agree on, without selling us down river to those damn, dirty Mexicans and their “chalupas” and “piñatas.” Learn all about the Jewish conspiracy, protecting European values and — not intending to be overly caustic — the greatness of the German Reich, over at White Civil Rights.

Go Ron Paul!