Tina Fey is my hero.
Why, you ask? No, not just for Mean Girls and other brilliant work. It's for the best reason reason of all: She called Paris Hilton a piece of shit on national radio.
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Why, you ask? No, not just for Mean Girls and other brilliant work. It's for the best reason reason of all: She called Paris Hilton a piece of shit on national radio.
We will happily eat crow about our predictions. And Entertainment Weekly has a good theory about why the Republicans lost so bad:
"America wants change. Sir Kev the Federlionhearted? Out. Bobby Brown? Prerogative revoked. Ryan Phillippe? Deported to Iwo Jima. The Republican Party? Thumped.
It’s called "breakup vibes," a concept you’ll remember from freshman year of college. One couple on the hall splits, and pretty soon, everybody’s either single or realigned. Am I crediting Nick Lachey with the defeat of the Republican Party? Yes, I think I am."
Not really in general, though. More just like "in America". Why? Because here's Planetarium's super-top-secret-awesome prediction for the 2006 mid-term elections: The Republicans are going to maintain control of both the House AND the Senate. How could that be, you ask? Glad you're curious. The reason is simple: They're going to steal the elction, just like they did in 2004.
It won't be a big blatant steal, either. They don't need to do that any more. If 2004 proved anything, it was that through a slow, semi-legal process of purging voter rolls, mishandling ballots, setting up voting machine "mishaps" in key swing districts, and so on and so forth, they can bring democracy to an effective halt and nobody will seem to give much of a fuck. Remember how crazy and angry people got after the '04 election, because of the kinds of disenfranchisement and stealing of votes that happened in Ohio? No? That's because there WASN'T ANY. As long as Dancing With the Stars is still on at its regular time, people don't really give a shit. This sounds cynical, we know. But it will seem less so when you wake up Wednesday morning and we were proven right.