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Yeah, I've heard that this is

DF — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:35:00 +0000

In reply to Not that there's anything you

Yeah, I've heard that this is the case for hulu.com as well. I'm really not sure why this is the case.

Not that there's anything you

acanuck — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:29:20 +0000

Not that there's anything you can do about it, but clips from the Daily Show never work for me -- or anyone accessing from a Canadian ISP. Instead I get a message that boils down to "Rent the Comedy Network, you cheap bastard!"

Oddly, it's just the clips that are blocked; I can watch the show itself on a local channel via on-air signal or basic cable. Just wanted everyone to feel my pain.

Personally, I like to ask

DF — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 19:47:02 +0000

In reply to Due to random biology and

Personally, I like to ask every African-American that I meet about last night's basketball scores. Right after I implore them to dap the rock, of course.

Due to random biology and

Orlando — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:30:16 +0000

In reply to You Down With GOP?

Due to random biology and geography, I will never be an African American who lives in the inner city. But in my life, when I have had to opportunity to work with African Americans who did live in the inner city on issues that were important to all of us, I did a few things. I listened to their concerns. I expressed my concerns. And then, I worked together with them, trying to find common ground and solutions to problems that we all faced.

What I did not do was attempt to speak in slang or dialect and talk unrelentingly about my love of hip hop. First of all, had I done these things, I would have felt like an ass. Can you guess why?

(Because to affect the cultural traits of a culture to which I do not belong, and have not been assimilated into, is asinine.)

I don't have to act exactly like someone to understand their concerns. I just have to listen to their concerns. That concept doesn't seem to me to be overwhelmingly profound. What I do find overwhelmingly, staggeringly profound is the utter and wilfull stupidity of CPAC and its members.