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Christopher Hitchens, the late essayist and sot, was a man who purposefully cultivated a lot of friends of a certain type - rich, self-important, generally dim-witted and hence easy for a well-spoken Oxbridge debater to impress - and he electrified Washington D.C. society mainly by not being a completely charmless bore.

~Alex Pareene

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Cable boxes are, almost without exception, awful. They're under-powered computers running very badly designed software. Their channel guides are slow, poorly laid out, and usually riddled with ads.

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Topics: Ads Almost Awful Badly Boxes Cable Channel Computers Designed Exception Guides Laid Out Poorly Riddled Running Slow Software Very Without

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Ideally, in the future, you'll just pay your cable company for the stream, which you'll be able to watch and manipulate through whatever means on whatever devices you like.

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Topics: Able Cable Company Devices Future Ideally Just Like Manipulate Means Pay Stream Through Watch Whatever Which You Your

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It's been possible for years to use a PC to watch and record over-the-air television broadcasts, and unencrypted cable television tuners have been available almost as long. But for a long time, you could only watch copyright-protected channels with a cable company-leased box.

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Topics: Almost Available Been Box Cable Channels Could Long Long Time Only Possible Record Television Time Use Watch Years You Pc

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Most politicians are vain. Many of them are stupid.

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Topics: Many Most Politicians Stupid Them Vain

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Aaron Sorkin is why people hate liberals. He's a smug, condescending know-it-all who isn't as smart as he thinks he is.

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Topics: Condescending Hate He Liberals People Smart Smug Thinks Who Why Aaron

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'The Newsroom' is phenomenally bad good TV. Sam Waterston and Jeff Daniels and Emily Mortimer are all terrific! So is the production, and the direction, and even the editing!

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Topics: Bad Direction Editing Emily Even Good Jeff Newsroom Production Sam Terrific Tv

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The thing with 'The West Wing' is that the fantasy was legitimately better than the reality - these were smarter, better people than their real-life counterparts, working together at a better White House than the one we had.

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Topics: Better Counterparts Fantasy Had House People Real-Life Reality Smarter Than Thing Together Were West West Wing White White House Wing Working Working Together

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Some BuzzFeed articles are written by smart people who use complete sentences. Some of the disposable lists are witty and appear to have taken some effort to put together.

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Topics: Appear Articles Complete Disposable Effort Lists People Put Sentences Smart Smart People Some Taken Together Use Who Witty Written

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Donald Trump, an oft-bankrupt make-believe mogul clown with a television show where he pretends to fire America's saddest former celebrities, is one of the Republican Party's most prominent national figures because he is on TV and people have heard of him.

~Alex Pareene

Topics: America Because Celebrities Clown Donald Donald Trump Figures Fire Former He Heard Him Make-Believe Most National Party People Pretends Prominent Republican Saddest Show Television Television Show Trump Tv Where

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Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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