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Kucinich Loses.

By James Poniewozik

Another Supreme Court shoots down another Democrat.

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JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight. A Play In One Act

By James Poniewozik

Little Devil Sitting on My Shoulder: He’s watching American Idol. Little Angel Sitting on My Other Shoulder: How can you even say that? He’s watching the Democratic debate on MSNBC. Devil: [Snorts derisively.] Angel: Don’t mock me! American Idol is just two hours of bloated audition footage milking cheap laughs out of bad singers, 95% [...]

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Oprah to Get Own TV Network

By James Poniewozik

So I know what you were thinking when you read that headline: Doesn’t Oprah already have her own TV network? Her own airline? Her own terraformed planet, to which Oprah, Gayle King and all Oprah-related enterprises will be relocated when the Earth becomes uninhabitable? In fact, Oprah was one of several cofounders of the much-hyped, [...]

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Kucinich Wins!

By James Poniewozik

It appears that steps are finally being taken to dispel the ugly cloud of bigotry that has hung over the Democratic primary. I refer, of course, to the bigotry against short-statured, low-polling progressives who have seen UFOs. A Nevada judge has ruled in favor of Dennis Kucinich, compelling MSNBC to invite him to its Democratic [...]

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Jericho May Possibly Be Good Now

By James Poniewozik

Last year, I wrote a blog post confessing my faithfulness to the show Jericho, despite the fact that I could not say the show was, in any critically defensible sense of the word, good. Well, I’ve just watched three of the six episodes CBS sent me (out of seven total) for season 2, and it [...]

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The Morning After: Back from Break

By James Poniewozik

FOX At some point I may need to consider putting The Morning After on hiatus, considering, well, we’re starting to run out of TV to discuss the morning after. In the meantime, I’m going to delegate Prison Break to you, since I’m hopelessly behind on it. Or talk about the second night of Sarah Connor [...]