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I guess it’s time to have my ears examined.  I keep hearing the most alarming things on cable news channels …

What I heard:  “I’m a C cup, and this is CNN.”

What she actually said:  “I’m S.E. Cupp, and this is CNN.”

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What I heard: “His book is — it’s even worse than it looks.” — MSNBC’s Alex Wagner.

What she actually said:  “His book is: It’s Even Worse than It Looks.”

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The Huffington Post is still looking for a few good proofreaders.

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I haven’t been keeping up with the Kardashians lately, so I  watched an episode.  When I tuned in, the charming sisters were trying to decide which of their vaginas smelled the worst.

If Muslim extremists ever conquer the United States, or if the poor finally revolt and imprison the rich, I will happily volunteer to join the firing squad when this awful family is lined up.

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Promo of the Week

“There are no frills; just a round oak table and intelligent discussion as Rose engages newsmakers.” — Comcast’s description of Charlie Rose.  Makes me want to watch — how about you?

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Melissa Harris-Perry interviewed the survivor of a horrible accident in which, evidently, the car’s headrest became fused to the man’s neck.

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Bravo recently premiered The People’s Couch, in which friends and relatives watch TV, and we watch them as they watch TV.  When I tuned in, everyone was watching My Little Pony.

I was tempted to call my landlady to see if she would like to come over and watch me as I watched these people watching My Little Pony.  Yes, it’s come to this. 

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I read that there was a picture of Lady Gaga’s ass.  So I Googled “Lady Gaga’s ass.”  Turns out there are many pictures of Lady Gaga’s ass.  This week, we dedicate the Review to Lady Gaga’s ass.

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This photo of a Notre Dame running back has been creating quite a stir.  Apparently, the ladies think he is quite the stud — we have to agree.

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TV Update

Shows We Hear Too Much About:

There has always been a whiff of “this show is for teen girls” about American Horror Story, but season three is dishing out more than a whiff.  Teen witches at a boarding school might pass for scary on the Disney Channel (“Let’s bring the cute dead boy back to life!”), but not so much anywhere else.  Grade:  B

I simply can’t watch The Walking Dead anymore.  The zombies are silly, there is very little suspense, and there are way, way too many “heartfelt” conversations.  Grade:  C

Shows We Hear Too Little About:

Spiral on Netflix (below).  Cool show, similar to American police procedurals but with French actors, French music, and French sets.  Did I mention that the show is French?  It’s also smart and more cinematic than most cop shows.  Caveat:  There are lots of lawyers, and that means lots of talking, and that means lots of subtitles.  Grade:  B+  Clips

I don’t know about you, but when I hear the phrase “miserable Russian peasants,” I don’t automatically think, “Funny stuff!”  But that’s what Harry Potter’s been up to on Ovation’s A Young Doctor’s Notebook (top).  Daniel Radcliffe and Jon Hamm star in this black comedy about a city-boy doctor stuck in the boonies of 1917 Russia.  The first two episodes are so-so, but the third has some truly inspired slapstick.  Grade:  B+  Clips

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Anderson Cooper and Alex Castellanos (above) discussed Tea Party darling Ted Cruz:

Castellanos:  A friend explained to me today, finally, what Ted Cruz is doing.  And I finally understand:  He’s having bunny sex.

Cooper:  Wow.  This is the late-night edition of 360.

Castellanos:  In nature, there are boom-and-bust cycles.  The snowshoe hare, every ten years, multiplies sixfold.

Cooper:  Are you high?  What are you talking about?

Castellanos:  I am high.  Let me explain.  Let me explain … the bunny, the snowshoe hare — I thought it’s a marvelous explanation — every six years, every ten years multiplies sixfold.  Bunnies like sex, apparently.

There was more, but at this point I began to feel sorry for poor Cooper, who has had to deal with this kind of thing before.  Click here  and scroll about halfway down.

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Misused Word of the Week:  Brilliant

Piers Morgan, a brilliant journalist, interviewed Alan Dershowitz, a brilliant legal scholar, this week on CNN.  I would argue that there are only a handful of “brilliant” humans — generally toiling in the world of science — in each century.  Einstein was brilliant.  Stephen Hawking is brilliant.

Steve Jobs was not brilliant; he was pretty good at figuring out what people wanted from their computers.  Adrian Peterson is not brilliant; he’s pretty good at running with a football.  As for Morgan and Dershowitz, well ….

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Here’s a rat video.  But it’s a funny rat video.

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The Minnesota Lynx won their second WNBA title in three years.  In Minnesota, these are the only sports titles we win.  And so, in honor of our beloved women’s basketball team, I am this week including lots of  lynx.

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Normally, Fox’s Jesse Watters comes off as a smirking, condescending jerk.  But I will have to admit that his interview with Shubedi Shudarson (pictured at top), a United Nations guest from Nepal, was priceless.  Shudarson’s discourse on Nepali cuisine can be found at one minute, twenty-five seconds of this lynx.

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CNN’s Elizabeth Cohen and Carol Costello discussed the Obamacare Web site:

Cohen:  I still can’t log in.

Costello:  OK.  So I guess you can call maybe and get a live person on the phone to fix some of these problems — is that true?

Cohen:  Well, what you can do is if, like me, you’re not able to log in and you want to get insurance, you can call the 800 number that they have on their site.  They can help you with a lot of it over the phone and they can also send you information by snail mail.

Imagine that.  Isn’t modern technology amazing?

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We all hate commercials.  But the following ads are causing me to lose sleep at night.

“I won this 55-inch TV for less than thirty dollars on DealDash.com!”

You, too, can experience this charming woman — over and over and over again — by clicking on this lynx.

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This teeth-gnashing, suicide-inducing Goodwill commercial ran last year and now it’s back.  If I have to suffer through it again this year, so must you.  Click on this lynx.

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“President Obama has offered to pay out of his own pocket for the museum of Muslim culture.” — Fox’s Anna Kooiman (above), falling for and then reporting a fake story from a parody news site.

Sooner or later, when you staff your cable-news shows with blond bimbos, it will come back and bite you in the ass.

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Maxim is running another story about everyone’s favorite summer event, the “Smallest Penis in Brooklyn” pageant.  Evidently, this was the only show in 2013 that did not feature Miley Cyrus — and she’s not happy about it.  Click on this lynx.

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Seems to me that it’s much too easy to terrorize a town these days.  Man up, towns.

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Buttocks Number One:

“[Criticism of corporate bonuses] was intended to stir public anger, to get everybody out there with their pitchforks and their hangman nooses, and all that — sort of like what we did in the Deep South.  And I think it was just as bad and just as wrong.” — AIG’s Robert Benmosche, above, whining to The Wall Street Journal

If you didn’t want to grab a pitchfork before, you probably do now.

Buttocks Number Two:

Nothing newsworthy about these buttocks.  But they are just about perfect buttocks, so here you go.

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“It is incredibly fluid.” — CNN’s Dana Bash, employing the latest word of the moment that every media outlet must hammer to death.  Next week there will be a new word, because these things tend to be fluid.

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“The [America’s] Cup returns home to where it belongs:  in the hands of American sailors who defied the odds, who are so courageous, who are so disciplined, who are so focused, and who had such strategic plans to give our country — USA, USA, USA — a victory we will never forget.”

That was Nancy Pelosi, who apparently digs rich-guy sports, and whose panties might have gotten into a bunch if anyone had bothered to inform her that Team USA had exactly one (1) American on its 11-man crew.

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Balloon Week!

Fox Balloons!

“Look how happy those girls are in their balloons!” — some idiot on Fox & Friends, watching Elisabeth Hasselbeck, above right, race in a giant ball.

British Balloons!

Miley Balloons!

Hey … it was a slow news week.

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“In space … apparently you can hear all kinds of weird shit.”

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War Drums Update

Irritating phrase of the week:  “trust, but verify”

Irritating word of the week: “degrading”

If you trust in something (or someone), there is no need to verify.  If you bomb somebody (or something), it is not “degrading.”  Degrading is what happens to the nerd in high school who gets his pants pulled down in the cafeteria.

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CNN’s Crossfire:  I can’t bring myself to watch it, because it features Newt Gingrich with his fat, smarmy persona and castrato voice.  Did I mention that I don’t care for Newt Gingrich?

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Whatever your feelings about the show itself, is there another program that does cooler trailers than American Horror Story?

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Just when you think it’s a waste of time to seek your soul mate on Internet dating sites, this sexy, highly desirable couple breaks up, adding more goodness to the dating pool.

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I don’t know a thing about these striking Mexican teachers and their issues, but I do know that, of all professions, there is no group that I associate more with the word “whining” than teachers.

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“No one had done that in 44 years.” — CBS’ Scott Pelley, praising Peyton Manning’s record-tying seven touchdown passes in the NFL opener.

Pelley did not mention the name of the quarterback who last accomplished the feat — poor Joe Kapp.  The last time we heard from old Joe was in 2011 when the 73-year-old former Viking was videotaped brawling onstage with 74-year-old Angelo Mosca.  Jostling Joe is at left in the pictures.

I dunno, I think the old-fart fisticuffs might be more impressive than seven touchdowns.

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Damn, I’m old.  I had to look up “twerking.”  But I’m still not sure.  Is Miley Cyrus twerking in the picture above?  Or is that spelunking?

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Makes sense to me.  I don’t think that humans, at least, belong on this planet, and the evidence for this is overwhelming:  1.  Unless you live in Hawaii, there is practically no place on Earth with a comfortable climate; you either need to strip down to escape the heat, or bundle up to ward off the cold.   Of all life forms on Earth, only humans have this need for artificial clothing.  2.  Everything we like to ingest — chocolate, alcohol, tobacco, heroin, Miley Cyrus — is bad for us.  Everything good for us — water, green vegetables, PBS — is a crashing bore.  Things had to be better on the red planet.

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Just listened to Obama’s speech.  Apparently, there will be no new war in the Middle East this week.  Be sure to check in again next week. …

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