Month: February 2003

From the New York Times (registration required):

At a moment when America wants to watch Lorenzo Lamas ask, “What’s your breast size, because it’s hard to see your breasts in that dress?” — as he has done on ABC’s newest reality series “Are You Hot?” — comedy is no longer king.”

Thanks to Angels from Another Pin for the link. Although I’d largely given up on sitcoms already a few years ago, this sudden surge in “reality programming” means I simply watch less television altogether. Which I suppose is ultimately a good thing.

Overheard:

Manager: I see everything.

Cashier 1: You can’t. [to Cashier 2] She’s omnipotent. Omnip–omnip–whatever.

Cashier 2: Don’t look at me, man. I’m still in high school.

From Schrödinger’s Iraq by Matthew Baldwin:

Bush: Precisely. If you view Iraq in a classical Newtonian framework, then you must concede that they either do or do not have weapons of mass destruction. It is this narrow mindset that causes such confusion in the uninformed.

But, over President’s Day weekend at Camp David, I delved into the collected writings of Erwin Schrödinger, and now have no recourse but to conclude that Saddam both has and does not have weapons of mass destruction.