Fresh Idea!

Ben Silverman, former co-chair of NBC Entertainmnet who rose to power by copying already proven TV formats (The Office, Ugly Betty, Nashville Star), is now ripping off recently canceled Party Down.

from Cynopsis: "NBC okayed a comedy from Ben Silverman titled Party People. The project is an ensemble comedy script about entertainers who work at children's parties and is described as having the same feel as the classic sitcom Taxi."

While the pitch to the grey hairs at NBC involves a reference to Taxi, I'd say it's just like Party Down but with children's parties.

Man Alive

Everything Everything is a band with an album called Man Alive, which is my ALL TIME FAVORITE exclamatory expression used by my grandma with stunning frequency.

Sign O' The Times (a mixtape): net neutrality slapped again by The Man

Joe Barton, ranking Republican on the Energy and Commerce Committee, refused to support the Net Neutrality bill backed by the FCC and the White House.

Barton said: “I have consulted with Republican leadership and members of the Energy and Commerce Committee, and there is a widespread view that there is not sufficient time to ensure that [the] proposal will keep the Internet open without chilling innovation and job creation...It is not appropriate to give the FCC authority to regulate the Internet."

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Deregulation VS Fairness: does deregulation=fairness or is fairness undermined by deregulation?



on Deregulation: Bernie Sanders ping pongs ideas off this automaton's forehead...
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My Answer: While on one hand deregulation means the "market" remains free, it undermines a central tenant of Americanism. What's so great about this idea of America we hold dear? The American Dream, of course; life, liberty, and the pursuit of putting nacho cheese and ranch dressing on whatever you eat. Americans value freedom, they want fairness. How is it fair for those in power to take a democratizing resource like the internet and literally (quite literally) rig it in their favor? Wouldn't doing so limit access to The American Dream by dampening the fire that propels our literal (ok, figurative) locomotive of progress, social mobility? Social mobility is what keeps American Capitalism on track, motivating our citizens to be productive and innovative. Lack of social mobility is a lack of freedom, and allowing Power to grab more power unfettered is a detriment to social mobility, a detriment to freedom, and an attack on The American Dream.

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The Rebuttal: On the flip side, letting big business make more $$$ could translate to more jobs for Americans and an increase in social mobility.

Rebuttal to The Rebuttal: Ignoring the nagging notion that greater profits as a result of deregulation probably means bigger bonuses for CEOs (encouraged by DeReg to move jobs overseas) and Finance Barons (encouraged by DeReg to generate $huge incomes$ without actually making anything thereby cutting out the middle(class)man).......Let's take a look: have the last 20-30 years of heavy deregulation marked an increase in social mobility for American families? No.
(I know no one trusts stats anymore but if you care at all, just bite the bullet and spend 5 more minutes reading up)

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Conclusion: unchecked deregulation is bad for social mobility, bad for freedom, and bad for America. 200 years into the industrial revolution and 400 years into American democracy, The Man knows how to rig the game quite well. The result lately is economic inequality unmatched since the 1920s, consolidation of wealth in the hands of the few, and the erosion of the middle class. This is especially true in a struggling economy when funny money has dried up and limited resources (jobs, credit, education) are out of reach for so many. Ironically, in this regard, America is becoming more like Latin America everyday, so how can we be against all these immigrants?