LAYOFFS ARE YR BEST ENTERTAINMENT VALUE

ITEM: The Fox Network has revealed its newest idea for a reality show: letting employees of struggling small businesses decide which one of their colleagues will be laid off.

It's called Someone's Gotta Go, and it's in production now.

Classy. Should be a major hit. Given current events and all.

Meanwhile, YesButNoButYes has some helpful and insightful tips for prospective contestants from one of the people who writes the plot twists, unexpected outcomes and judges zingers for Hell's Kitchen, The Mole, The Bachelor, Top Chef and others.

Don’t look at me like that. You didn’t think these shows were completely improvised, did you?

Feelgood hit of the summer,

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EASTER EVERYWHERE (#2 0F 4): RABBITS IN BONDAGE

Specifically, Jessica Rabbit.



Via the flawed but recommended Comic Book Bondage Cover of the Day archive.

Henchmen are pigs,

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ARE AMERICA’S TITS GETTING LARGER?

ITEM [via YesButNoButYes]: Bra maker Wacoal America says that three years ago, the most common bra size in the country was 36C. Last year it was 36D. In 2009, Wacoal predicts that 36DD will be the size more women purchase than any other.

Why? Partly because of the growing popularity of obesity and implants, but mainly, according to most manufacturers and lingerie shop owners, because more women are being fitted correctly.

Which is good. Otherwise, by 2012 we’ll be living in a Woody Allen sketch.

Colossal boob,

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THEY CAN HAVE MY TEA BAG WHEN THEY PRY IT FROM MY COLD DEAD MOUTH

I’ve been resisting the urge to blog anything about the Conservative Tea Bag meme, mainly because when I first heard about it, my first thought was, “That’s not only a lame metaphor, it’s also a terrible historical comparison. There’s no way it’ll catch on.”

Which goes to show how much I know.

So, seeing as how April 15 is officially Tea Bag Obama Day, with events planned all over the country, and seeing as how Fox News is actively promoting them ahead of time and even branding them FNC Tax Day Tea Parties®, and since I have a blog and crap, I guess I should say something.

And as everyone’s already seen Rachel Maddow’s take on it by now (and if somehow you haven’t, I recommend it, though it helps if you know what “teabagging” means besides what the conservatives think it means), I’ll direct yr attention to Andrew Sullivan’s take on the Tea Bag meme, which is that it’s not so much a movement as an “amorphous, generalized rage” with no intellectual honesty or even a positive counterproposal to Obama’s fiscal policies.

These are not tea-parties. They are tea-tantrums. And the adolescent, unserious hysteria is a function not of a movement regrouping and refinding itself. It's a function of a movement's intellectual collapse and a party's fast-accelerating nervous breakdown.

He has a point. Have you seen what the Tea Parties so far look like? Little Green Footballs has unearthed footage from a “Project 912 Glenn Beck Tea Party” (possibly in Ohio), which doesn’t have any Glenn Beck in it, but it does feature some guy (at the 1:58 mark) babbling about how marketing is the secret to defeating Obama’s tyranny, which is part of a 50-year plan by the Communists to take over America. Oh, and he believes digital cable boxes and universities are “brainwashing machines”.

And that’s nothing compared to the woman off-camera near the end demanding that college books on “the evolution crap” and other “brainwashing books” be burned.

Watch the fun.

To be fair – and Maddow makes the same point – the batshit conspiracy contingency may not necessarily reflect the majority or the core concerns of the Tea Bag crowd, and I agree that just because batshit conspiracy theorists agree with you, that doesn’t automatically make you a batshit conspiracy theorist.

On the other hand, the main spokesperson for this group works for the most-watched news channel in the country, which is also putting its own name on some of these events and also features its hottest personalities blathering about Obama The Tyrant.

I’m just saying.

Fahrenheit 451,

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