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WIST

A quotation from Watterson, Bill

CALVIN (as he and Hobbes ride a wagon downhill): I think life should be more like TV.

CALVIN: I think all of life’s problems ought to be solved in thirty minutes with simple homilies, don’t you? I think weight and oral hygiene ought to be our biggest concerns.

CALVIN: I think we should all have powerful, high-paying jobs, and everyone should drive fancy sports cars. All our desires should be instantly gratified.

CALVIN (as the wagon flies off a cliff): Women should always wear tight clothes, and men should carry powerful handguns.

CALVIN (as he and Hobbes tumble in mid-air): Life overall should be more glamorous, thrill-packed, and filled with applause, don’t you think?

HOBBES (as they pick themselves up from the ground): I think my life is too featherbrained already.

CALVIN: Of course, if life was really like that, what would we watch on TV?

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David

Ban Images of "Living Things"

So no TV at all. No photos taken with microscopes of bacteria. No photos of any land not utterly barren. No photos of the sky with passing birds or insects. No Internet because of the ubiquitous cats. Seems simpler to ban all photos.

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Afghan Taliban vow to implement media ban on images of living things

by Agence France-Presse

Kabul --

Afghanistan's Taliban morality ministry pledged Monday to implement a
law banning news media from publishing images of all living things,
with journalists told the rule will be gradually enforced.

"The law applies to all Afghanistan... and it will be implemented
gradually" by persuading people images of living things are against
Islamic law, spokesman for the Ministry for the Propagation of Virtue
and the Prevention of Vice Saiful Islam Khyber told AFP.

The Taliban government judiciary recently announced legislation
formalising their strict interpretations of Islamic law imposed by the
authorities since they swept to power in 2021.

The law detailed several rules for news media, including banning the
publication of images of all living things and ordering outlets not to
mock or humiliate Islam, or contradict Islamic law.

Aspects of the new law have not yet been strictly enforced, however,
and Taliban officials continue to regularly post photos of people on
social media.

Television and pictures of living things were banned across the country
under the previous Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, but a similar edict
has so far not been broadly imposed since their return to power.

#afghan-taliban #taliban #afghanistan #images #photographs #television #movies #motion-pictures #videos #internet #morality

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Michael

Here we go... last night's cold-opening (Live) at "Saturday Night Live"'s 50th Anniversary Season Opener

Please watch, enjoy, share. It is so full of #truth and #laughter, #ContextAndPerspective, some may call this "therapeutic".

Overall, we have really well-polished ensemble acting. And clearly the writers took notes on all the events whizzing past us recently.

Saturday Night Live 28 Sept 2024 - Harris and Trump Rallies Cold Open

Check out this cast - and casting - and ensemble. SNL is well-prepared for an extended run through a Harris Presidency, with Maya Rudolph impossible to top as Kamala without the traumala... Smile!

#TrumpVirus #psychopathology #parody #humor #BrainSpurs #MayaRudolph #SNL #KamalaHarris #television

prplcdclnw@diasp.eu
David

In 'Miss Merkel,' Germany's former chancellor is a crime-solving amateur detective

https://text.npr.org/g-s1-19962

As the title suggests, Miss Merkel is a whodunnit that imagines the former chancellor as an Agatha Christie-style detective who starts solving crimes out of sheer boredom. For want of a G7 or European Union summit, Merkel is desperate to put down the garden shears and get back to solving something, anything! This time, it’s a village murder. Move over, Miss Marple!

#mystery #tv #television #deutschland #germany #merkel #angela-merkel #detective-fiction #whodunnit #detective #chancellor #pi #private-investigator #private-detective #amateur-detective

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Radio Free Trumpistan

Another good reason to show that boi the door.

♲ Flipboard Culture Desk - 2024-07-26 23:40:56 GMT

Russell T. Davies has announced a new "Doctor Who" spin-off, "The War Between The Land And The Sea." The show will star Russell Tovey and Gugu Mbatha Raw. Both have appeared in the series in the past, but will play new roles. Jemma Redgrave will be back as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart, and Alexander Devrient returns as Colonel Ibrahim. The five-part series was announced at San Diego Comic-Con. Here's more from the BBC.https://flip.it/T0WCPB

#DoctorWho #BBC #Whovians #TV #Television #SciFi #ScienceFiction

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