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...Shays replied with quiet vehemence. Boehner's comments were "dumb, stupid, but I can point to plenty of Democrats who do similar things ... [House minority leader] Nancy Pelosi threatened Carolyn Maloney, Ellen Tauscher and Jane Harman-all moderate Democrats-against co-sponsoring legislation with me. There are problems on both sides." Afterward, I asked Zinner about Shays' response. "I really respect him, I've always voted for him, and he had a point," Zinner said. Does that mean you'll vote for him this time? "No way," he said. "If we don't get some meaningful congressional oversight...
Still, abandoning Idiocracy seems particularly unjust, since Judge has made a lot of money for Fox. Plus, Idiocracy isn't a bad movie: a lot of the reviews are actually positive. The idea is an extension of Judge's previous work mocking the dumbing down of society: perfectly average Luke Wilson and Maya Rudolph are frozen until 2505 and awaken to a world so degraded by mass consumerism that they are now the smartest people in the world. Crops are dying because they're being irrigated with an electrolyte-filled sports drink that has "the taste plants crave." Costco takes...
...about any of that--you'll notice there are no quotes in this story. That's because Fox doesn't want to bad-mouth Judge, not even off the record, and Judge doesn't want to complain about Fox. Judge knows he works in an Office Space world with dumb bosses who can't market an offbeat movie and an Idiocracy world where audiences react mainly to CGI bells and whistles. The best he can hope to do is quietly keep making fun of those facts, and hope it plays a lot on cable...
Most important, the Pearl is a model of consumer-friendly design. RIM says it's one of the smallest smart phones, and it's thinner than most dumb phones too. Our tests revealed surprisingly long battery life and surprisingly easy e-mail setup as well. We installed AIM, Gmail and Yahoo! and could view all incoming mail simultaneously or by account...
Slavitt’s memoir shows that he still doesn’t realize why he failed as a candidate. It’s not because politics is perverted, or because Cantabridgians are dumb. It’s because he, the candidate, didn’t take the election seriously...