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Blago Moves to the Private Sector, on Celebrity Apprentice

It seems like just a year ago that Illinois governor Rod Blagojevich was disgraced in a corruption scandal and making a tour of the media to try to restore his name. Oh, wait: it was just a year ago. Last summer, Blago tried to enlist on I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here (his [...]

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Dead Tree Alert: Year of the Pundit-Politician

Lou Dobbs has floated a run for Senate (or President), Glenn Beck is touting a “100 year plan” for America, and Sarah Palin gave up running Alaska to go on a book tour. In the latest print TIME, my Tuned In column asks whether, in this midterm election year, a media platform may be a [...]

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The Morning After: Hail to the Chefs

Quick spoilers for last night’s special episode of Iron Chef America coming up after the jump:

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Vacation Robo-Post: The Day the World Didn't End

Happy New Year! And welcome to the Tens, or the Teens, or the Teenies, or whatever the hell we’re going to call them! More important, congratulations on making it through the last decade, which some newsmagazine termed The Decade from Hell. As you’ll recall, the previous decade began with the dire prediction that a computer [...]

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The Morning After: Robo-Edition

This is Robo-James. The Morning After is an open post in which humans are invited to discuss the previous evening’s television transmissions. Analyze, humans! Analyze your visual entertainments using your weak, wrinkled flesh-processors! This completes Robo-James’ interregnum as vacation host of Tuned In. Commence celebrating your planet’s successful revolution around its moderate-sized sun!