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This is a ringing recommendation for you to watch the sharpest, smartest and most unconventional sitcom not on HBO — Arrested Development on Fox Sunday nights. Like most sitcoms, Arrested Development is about a family, the Bluths. However, unlike most sitcoms Arrested Development has no audience laugh track, no wacky neighbors, no cute kids and no fat guy with a hot wife (aka the CBS network’s sitcom blueprint). It is much smarter and weirder than that
Where once political protesting through music was relegated to angry punk rockers or pudgy folk artists, everyone is getting into the game now. Green Day, Eminem, A Perfect Circle, Bruce Springsteen. Thanks to George W. Bush, who is bringing back 80s style anti-Reagan level hysteria.
So what is the deal with this Knuckle Tap thing we all do? You know, when we try to be all "street." When did it become cool and when will it go away?
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