Wednesday, 18 November 2009 14:02   
One Straight Guy's Take On The Demise Of 'Project Runway'
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Heidi KlumWhen you're a TV critic, you're inspired to write about a show for a variety of different reasons. Sometimes it's just your job to write about a show, or you weigh in because you either love or hate the program for some specific reason that you feel the overwhelming need to share with your readers.

For me, I'm sometimes just inspired by my annoyance with another think piece that I find to be especially off-base or too cute for its own good. I let that annoyance stew around in my head for awhile and then it spews out here for the world to see. My apologies in advance to all of you.

I haven't really written about this season's run of "Project Runway" since the premiere. Partly because while I watch the show regularly, I don't have the obsessive interest in it that some critics do. And since I already write enough in the course of a week, it's easy for me to just step back from a show I don't have strong opinions about one way or the other.

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Wednesday, 11 November 2009 08:33   
Keith Olbermann Gets It Wrong About Carrie Prejean
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Carrie PrejeanThere's not much difference between being a physical bully and an intellectual one. People who claim "words can never hurt you" have probably never been intellectually bitch-slapped by a master, but trust me, words can cause injuries that last long after a bruise would have healed.

At first glance, it's hard to feel much sympathy for former Miss California Carrie Prejean. For someone who claims that her comments about gay marriage cost her a career, she seems to be doing just fine. She has a new book, a burgeoning side career as a paid speaker and a spot in conservative circles as the poster child for the liberal media's abuse of power.

But she has a point when she claims that her comments about gay marriage brought a world of hurt down on her. I'm personally pro gay marriage, and Prejean was a grown woman when she made the comments. When you take any political stance, you run the risk of offending people. Sometimes people in positions of power.

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