Must-Not-Watch TV: CNN's new program featuring disgraced ex-NY governor Eliot Spitzer and ex-Washington Post columnist and RINO Kathleen Parker that is. Who would possibly give a shit what either of those two think about anything?  Rabid Democrats  might like some of the ex-gov's opinions but will the rest of us who aren't really take seriously a guy who cuckolded his wife with prostitutes and  in doing so broke the law (while serving as NY Attorney General  no less) and sent NY state police detectives to dig up dirt on political opponents? I can't say for sure but it seems unlikely. So there's that.
And as for Parker? She wrote a column for National Review before moving to the Washington Post. She's a vapid RINO squish who will likely get tepid approval from Dems and enrage Reps with her David Frum style squishiness. I wonder what demographic the CNN management thought Parker would appeal to? Was Parker & Spitzer supposed to be a kinder, gentler version of CNN's iconic debate format show Crossfire? Now departed CNN chief Jon Klein (who was fired 10 days ago) was the one who cancelled Crossfire and was the prime mover behind the Parker & Spitzer team-up show and without him there to hold the line on cancellation decisions I look for this show to fail fairly fast.

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Ex-CNN anchorman learns the hard way: It's okay to openly trash white Americans on the air, unless they're Jews. That has consequences.

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Taser's newest nasty coming to a police force near you! - Popular Science

Specs are:" Size: 12 gauge Weight: 25 grams Speed: 270 ft. per second Range: 100 ft. Current: 1.3 milliamps Get it:When you get your badge—the XREP is for law enforcement only."

Are cadmium-contaminated insects killing endangered meat-eating plants? - Scientific American
Animal drug trials keep mum about failures - New Scientist
When companies are too big to prosecute or even sanction -CNN Money (via Slashdot)

"Prosecutors said that excluding Pfizer would most likely lead to Pfizer's collapse, with collateral consequences: disrupting the flow of Pfizer products to Medicare and Medicaid recipients, causing the loss of jobs including those of Pfizer employees who were not involved in the fraud, and causing significant losses for Pfizer shareholders."

David Shuster moving to CNN? Who cares? - NY Times
"...cable news is either dishwater dull (Anderson Cooper anyone?) or it has unhinged screaming nasties." [comment # 7] Exactly. So why pay money to watch such dreck?