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• The City of Louisiana Rant From Keith Olbermann  MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann ranted articulately and poignantly about the Lake George recovery - starting with Chertoff’s “…the city of Louisiana…” comment. Best thing I’ve seen on MSM for quite some time. Thanks Cam.
• Pre-Amazing Race Season 9 Episode 6 Hey all. CBS changed the time Amazing Race is on. Now, Tuesday is just Garbage Day. Not Amazing Race & Garbage Day. Anyway a couple things in preparation for tonight’s installment. There’s some other Amazing Race bloggers: flyairdave Scrappy’s Amazing Race 9 (Looks like Amazing Race fantasy sports style. Also looks like Scrappy’s in Mpls.) Phil’s got a blog
• Add Cable Public Access to the Endangered Species List The MACTA talk was interesting. I sat next to tech lawyer, Brian Grogan. He explained the regulatory difference between cable companies and phone companies in this age where everyone is offering video over IP. I believe the difference came down to whether the video was offered exclusively on the proprietary network or available on the public
• Amazing Race Season 9 - Episode 1 Two-hour kick off to Season 9. Premieres are tough, lots of people to meet right away, 11 teams, 22 people. Nobody jumped out at us during the introductions. They all talked smack in the same way, “Everyone else will underestimate us, and we’ll beat them.” Blah. Once is bravado - 11 times is scripted insipidity.
• “George Bush Doesn’t Care About Black People”  Anyone else catch this on NBC’s Concert for Hurricane Relief? The man that said it was on camera with Michael Myers. I didn’t recognize him. Did you? UPDATE: According to PBCLiberal, it was non-NBC talking head Kayne West Video can be found at Zebrality Looks like I heard something different, the quote being reported is: “George Bush doesn’t care about black