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Don't Cry For Me, Venezuela

With a twitch of his brimstone detecting nostrils'  Venezuelan  President Hugo Chavez has  confirmed  Homer  & Marge's banishment  from the oily nation's  airwaves, after a ruling that The Simpsons traduced  the Law of Social Responsibility in Radio and Television by  being unsuitable for children.

The National Telecommunications Commission said the show pushed "messages that go against the whole education of boys, girls and adolescents", a task  the regulatory agency, thinks better delegated to wholesome Sesame Street regulars like David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson, The Simpsons'  11 AM slot having been turned over to reruns of Baywatch

Media watchers are waiting to see if  Borat counsels Kazakhstan to follow suit .

Give Me A Break

John Stossel's attempt to  bluff on some bad bets in climate science has been  raised and called by Prometheus

Collective Victory At Sea

Francis Fukuyama, back from Melanesia, where he took in some of the island scenes that helped make Victory At Sea  as visually memorable as its score , compares it with  Ken Burns attempt to render the Mother of All War Stories for PBS, and finds himself wondering if what we were may be as disquieting as that which we are becoming