The Daily Loper – October 22, 2008

Destroy Your Safe and Happy Lives Edition

Todays links of interest:

• Memo to bean counters: Pay Matthew Weiner what he wants or risk messing up "Mad Men"
  Amen. "Mad Men" without Weiner wouldn’t really be worth watching at all. At best, they’d figure out another direction, like "West Wing" did in its wholly underrated and utterly prescient seventh season. At worst, they’d flounder and get rid of all of the previously built-up good will, like "West Wing" did in its completely sucktastic fifth season.
• Did McCain Campaign Pull CNN Guest Due To Palin Story?
  What? McCain doesn’t want to discuss anti-American views, as espoused by the Palin associates in a secessionist movement?
• Drudge unplugged: How his campaign influence has collapsed
  Oh, please, don’t tease us this way!
• Chernin: FCC Needs To Stop Regulating Speech
  We quote: ?While a case with Cher and Nicole Richie at its center is probably not one we would have chosen to argue before the Supreme Court,? said Chernin, ?we don?t get to pick our cases. In fact, if anyone had told me that my company would be before the U.S. Supreme Court defending inane comments by Cher and Nicole Ritchie, I would have said, ‘You’re crazy.’ But I would contend that the nature of this speech, and who said it, makes absolutely no difference.?
• Facebook | Medialoper
  That’s right, it’s our very own Facebook page! We’re whores for Web 2.0. Facebook denizens, here’s your chance to become a Fan of Medialoper, an act that gains you absolutely nothing materially, but a whole ton on the spiritual and karmic level. And yes, we will be re-posting this link periodically.
• Yahoo to dump 1,500 workers as slump deepens
  We’re not economic experts, but this doesn’t seem good. On the other hand, it gives some of these people the chance to jump over to Google while their strike price is still relatively low . . .
• Miss Teen Louisiana loses crown over pot
  This is awesome. She and her friends did a dine and dash — skipping out on a $46.07 tab — but she left her purse, which allegedly contained a bag of pot. D’oh!! Even better, one of her friends said that they did it because the "service was slow." Or did it just *seem* slow because they were stoned? You wanna know what is slow? Leaving your pot-filled purse behind when you skip a tab.