Kazakhstan threatens “Borat” with court. “‘We do not rule out that [“Da Ali G Show” star Sacha Baron] Cohen is serving someone’s political order designed to present Kazakhstan and its people in a derogatory way,’ Kazakh Foreign Ministry spokesman Yerzhan Ashykbayev told a news briefing.”

Pardon my French, but: Those motherfuckers! You can’t kill the best show on television! Especially if you’re going to replace it with It’s Toby Keith!

My boring-ass story from Sunday’s paper. I can’t believe they killed my one lame joke, which despite its lameness was the only thing livening up my dead prose. (“The flurry of new exams may make you want to steal a line from the first George Bush: ‘No new TAKSes!’” Okay, maybe I can believe it.)

15 November 2005

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15 November | 15:56 | kelly

The cancellation of Arrested Development ticked me off, too. It would be nice if HBO would pick it up.

I swear, every time I start to like something it gets the axe. I give up.

22 November | 8:35 | Cav

TAKS: > BB-not-I

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