for those of you adverse to “hard copy,” this is from the current street edition of
“Below the Line,” written as press time concurred with an apparent “breakthrough” in Sacramento on a state budget. Since that time, the budget has remained stalemated in the state Senate:”
There’s breaking news as we write this and prepare to [...]

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Live by the negotiation delay, get hoisted on the same petard. To utterly mangle metaphors. Now it’s the producers’ turn to say, “ah, let’s wait.” In this case, they’re only waiting ’til August (ah, but when in August?), while — they claim — they wrap up some negotiations with Teamsters Local 399.
It’s [...]

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Perhaps it’s the polarizing age we live in, the message pounded in to us by our politicians, various religious “leaders,” even in our entertainment: Give no quarter!
Everybody wants to be a Spartan.
Which may be fine, in certain historical contexts — historical battles changing the flow of history, etc. — but provides an ethos which may [...]

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At long last, the Writers Guild and the Producers sit down to “bargain” with one another. Both sides are running a fever-high psy-ops campaign of dour rhetoric and spinning probable doomsday outcomes. From a Reuters wire story:

Internet looms in new Hollywood contract talks
By Steve Gorman
Reuters
Monday, July 16, 2007; 4:38 PM
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - With [...]

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