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...what did those damned Democrats do? Ripped off their slogan. The Democrats just unveiled their new slogan for the upcoming campaign season, which they'd spent a zillion dollars test marketing: "Securing America's Future for all our Families." The nerve of them. When they found out about the slogan theft, Armey and Watts held a press conference last week to cry foul. "Republicans have been working to secure America's future" since they took control of the House in 1994, Watts griped. The Democrats can't just up and steal our best lines. The Dems, of course, are chortling...
...MUSIC Berlin didn't always anticipate the musical fashion of the time. Often he imitated it. As a glance at "The Complete Lyrics of Irving Berlin" reveals, he wrote a zillion rag tunes ("That Mysterious Rag," "Ragtime Violin!", "Ragtime Mockingbird," "Ragtime Jockey Man," "Ragtime Soldier Man," "That International Rag") before and after "Alexander." He based whole songs on other people's airs ("That Mesmerizing Mendelsohn Tune," from Mendelsohn's "Spring Song"). He'd drop a snatch of a public-domain song in one of his (the bugle call and "Swanee River" in "Alexander's Ragtime Band"; "There's No Place...
...what, exactly, is the U.S. government supposed to do about it? The patriotic "national interest" line pushed so hard by steel makers (and a zillion other industries) since Sept. 11 is a bit shaky. Domestic producers could produce a fraction of what they do now and still have enough to cover the defense industry's needs, and even if they all went out of business it's hard to imagine a war that would induce countries like South Korea, Mexico, Argentina and Japan to impose some politically inspired OPEC-style embargo...
...lose in a strike, they're fooling themselves. (OK, so they probably are.) Even with the short-term bump in the networks' ratings compared with cable that followed "Millionaire," the overall trend is not in favor of the networks, which have steadily lost share to the rest of the zillion-channel universe, with no reason to expect to gain much back...
...will let others decide if this new trend is progressive or helpful to female viewers--let alone to unenlightened males, who have long appreciated the spectacle of women fighting (it used to be called mud wrestling). But the action woman is certainly a corrective to a zillion idiot action films and XFL games and episodes of Jackass. Women of any age hardly get a break in pop culture. So you go, girlie...