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Keeping up with the Kandidates

\"Are you not entertained?\" That was Jon Stewart’s response to Rick Perry’s brain freeze. He said it twice, maniacally. “Are you not entertained?” Stewart’s right about what’s happening. America is on track for the most amusing apocalypse ever. Things may be going to hell, but the campaign narrative unfolding in real time couldn’t be any more fun. It’s all entertainment, just grist for the media mill, and apparently there’s no bummer bad enough to shock us back to our senses.
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November 14, 2011

“Are you not entertained?”

” target=”_hplink”>warned that the world is just a handful of years away from irreversible climate change.  But with the Republican presidential field and GOP congressional leadership calling climate change a hoax, and with the energy industry pouring billions into lobbying and ad campaigns, the only thing standing between us and our planet’s catastrophic endgame is the delusion that it’s all just an episode of America’s Got Tsuris.

Also last week, Jack Abramoff provided a revolting ” target=”_hplink”>entertainment, media and society at the USC martyk@usc.edu.

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