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• 02:00 A radio ad for penis enlargement pills said something about a study on Fox News. Sounds about right. #
• 14:56 Video: 30 Day Music Meme Day 25. A song that makes you laugh Tom Lehrer - The Vatican Rag I guess I don’t... tumblr.com/xpycjlpff #
• 15:08 @miscellaneaarts Hacking up code? Maybe you shouldn't have eaten that computer! #
• 15:16 Funny how, in Rocky 3, Mr. T was the one who wouldn't stop his jibba-jabba. #
• 15:21 @8bit_Mickey Does it involve slamming it to the left if you're having a good t
  ime? #
• 15:23 @3x1minus1 twitpic.com/21k9k9 - No. As a matter of fact, I don't. #
• 15:23 Visqueen should get together with Snoop Dogg for a project called "Vizzlequeen." #
• 15:29 @eehouls @3x1minus1 Which one of you is Wint-O-Green? #
• 15:33 In "Bike Ride to the Moon," Andy Partridge says, "I might be a positive boon." Is there such a thing as a negative boon, Andy? #
• 15:37 You know that Pink song where she says, "I can go for miles if you
  know what I mean"? Well, I DON'T know what she means. #
• 16:19 If I were going to list the bands whose members I would expect to have drug problems, Barenaked Ladies would rank somewhere below Raffi. #
• 16:46 Jim Croce, was old King Kong really that bad? #
• 17:11 Photo: comicbookcovers: Happy Canada Day, everybody! tumblr.com/xpycju9sv #
• 17:15 Somebody went back to sitting on their somebody throne. #
• 17:52 Are Alejandro, Roberto, and Fernando all the same person, or does @ladygaga fall for any guy with a Hispanic name? #
• 18:31 @amandapalmer Maybe Brian remembers? #
• 21:17 Either Tumblr reblogs the wrong thing sometimes, or I don't pay a whole lot of attention. #

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All right, here's another television report. First, the new Futurama episode, which was largely an extended parody of Twitter and YouTube. It started out pretty well, giving us futuristic versions of the iPhone and social networking. I think it touched upon a few elements that weren't really explored, though. I thought, for instance, that they'd do something more with Flexo throwing himself away. Also, while amusing, the Mom scenes didn't really amount to anything, and the ending with the zombies was very abrupt. I did like the running gag with the two-headed goat. The Futurama writers are pretty skilled at doing gross-out humor that's somewhat smarter than what you'll see on other somewhat comparable shows.

The other show I'm addressing here is one that's actually a few weeks old, but bethje and I just got around to watching it. It's the second episode of the current season of Penn and Teller's Bullshit!, about fast food. I liked this one a lot better than the cheerleading one, but there were a few flaws and straw man arguments that I noticed. Overall, though, it had basically the same view I do about fast food, which is that the stigmatization of it is usually just yet another attempt to demonize fat people. They made a valid point about how, while fast food isn't great for you, neither is what you'll get at most non-fast-food restaurants. People who patronize fast food joints tends to have a better idea how many calories what they're eating has. (Don't ask me about that, though, because I have no clue when it comes to calories.) I did think the statement that the President wants to place mandatory calorie counts on fast food was a bit of a mislead, because you'd obviously be free to ignore that. I don't know of any serious movement to BAN fast food, but there is an incredible level of guilt involved with it. Penn continued on his anti-tax screed with the soda tax. He's probably right that it would place an additional tax burden on poor people, but it's not like the prices don't keep increasing anyway. It often seems like arguments over tax increases are making mountains out of molehills. ("I say your three cent titanium tax goes too far!") If I'm paying more money, why do I really care where it's going? Overall, though, I think the episode made a valid point.