I watched MTV’s Making the Video yesterday, and as a result, have had the new Destiny’s Child single stuck in my head for the last 8 hours. Make. It. Stop.

Un-be-friggin’-leivable. Viacom may be buying BET. Hello, antitrust? Figure out how much of your cable bill is already winding up in Sumner Redstone’s lecherous old pockets. It’s fun for the whole family! (tip: don’t just scan the headlines, they’re rather deceptive.) [via my old pal Jim]

This is going to be a very long weekend.

A new (as-yet unnamed) feature here at the ‘hoblog:”

• “monkey fucker” 74

• “ignorant slut“: 1660
• “monkey slut“: 39

As of press time, experts were still debating the impact of these findings.

Idea: the Evan Willams Testosterone Brigade. Any takers? (Because they just aren’t specific enough!)

This Standard article on student-run websites reminds me of the second idea I had after I realized I really needed a web site. I saw how incredibly stupid our quarterly student paper was, and decided that someone needed to print all the stuff they would never even think of touching. I couldn’t pull the writers together, knew I couldn’t do it all by myself, and then found out there was already a luddite version distributed around the school on 8.5×11 paper. If I had gone forward with it, I probably would have faced even worse problems than some of these kids are. Ugh. Censorship is bad enough, but it’s somehow worse when the censors are educators, yet are ignorant enough to not even realize they are breaking the law. Support your local independent journalist/teenage crackpot, donate to the ACLU, etc.

Did anyone else, while watching ER tonight, catch Kerry Weaver’s lesbian love interest the very second she appeared onscreen? The “That’s a nice color” thing and the putting-on of lipstick at the end were kind of overkill, actually. Half of me is glad that gay characters and gay themes are becoming so acceptable on prime-time TV, and half of me is groaning. It’s like those commercials where they manage to display a person of every possible ethnicity using and enjoying a product. It gets cloying after a while.