Ok, ok, so it’s an old story. But we just found it online today. Our favorite cartoon series, Futurama, is back in production again:

According to Daily Variety, [Comedy Central] has acquired exclusive cable TV rights for five years starting January 2008, and is shelling out a whopping $400,000 for each episode. Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim has Futurama until December of 2007.

Yippee!

Here are tonight’s news items that I’ll be talking about on when I join my friend, David Lawrence, for my weekly segment on his radio show, The David Lawrence Show:

No End in Sight: Data Breach Tally Approaches 100 Million

3 AOL Subscribers Sue Over Data Release

No Kidding, HP Sponsors ‘Privacy Innovation’ Award

Internet Privacy Group Files Complaint Against AOL

HP Chairwoman Leaves in Spying Furor

Here are tonight’s news items that I’ll be talking about on when I join my friend, David Lawrence, for my weekly segment on his radio show, The David Lawrence Show:

Seattle-area man exposes Craigslist sex ad responders

Gonzales Wants ISPs to Save User Data

No Kidding, HP Sponsors ‘Privacy Innovation’ Award

Rising Stakes in the Spam Wars

HP Chairwoman Leaves in Spying Furor

Here are tonight’s news items that I’ll be talking about on when I join my friend, David Lawrence, for my weekly segment on his radio show, The David Lawrence Show:

Embattled H.P. Chairwoman to Step Down

Second Life Loses Data

Plame Sues Armitage Over CIA Leak

After reading the current controversy about the ABC “docu-drama” The Path to 9/11, it’s pretty clear that the wholesale story line fabrications, extensive right-wing connections of the producers, and the propaganda-laced Student Study Guides are what pass for masturbation fodder for Bush Administration loyalists.

So, today I had an idea for a docu-drama: the story opens with Robert Iger, CEO of The Walt Disney Co., snorting cocaine off the belly of an underage Thai hooker. He has a flashback to a drug-fueled orgy he had with George W. Bush in the 1970s in which he learned the finer points of snorting cocaine off hookers’ bellies. He is roused from his stupor by the insistent clatter of a unicorn banging its horn against the door jamb of his hotel room, reminding him he’s late for his meeting to discuss some script notes about Pirates of the Caribbean III.

I think it’s a winner. It’s quite fanciful, but by throwing in one true story element — George W. Bush’s coke habit — the rest of the “docu-drama” can be just as easily passed off as reality, much as ABC hopes to do with The Path to 9/11.

Before you send me hate mail, I realize how absurd my story premise is. Iger would never involve himself in script decisions… he has people to do that for him.

This past weekend, Comedy Central aired their Roast of William Shatner. For those unfamiliar with the “roast” format, the idea is to tell the most insulting, raunchy, and abusive jokes possible about not only the “honoree” but about anybody in the building.

You can view parts of the roast online at the Comedy Central website. But for those who just want to cut to the chase, or for folks who might be searching online for some of the choice insults from the event, I’ve transcribed some of my favorite lines. You can read the uncensored lines after the jump.

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Here are tonight’s news items that I’ll be talking about on when I join my friend, David Lawrence, for my weekly segment on his radio show, The David Lawrence Show:

AOL apologizes for releasing user search data

An AOL user is tracked down using “anonymous” search information

RFID Equipped Passports are a threat, but easy to disable.

Credit bureau forced to pay for not fixing ID Theft records

“Until those civilians start paying the price for propping up these kinds of regimes, it’s not going to end.”

– Rush Limbaugh, endorsing the killing
of Lebanese civilians, July 31, 2006

“[T]he American people are not exonerated from responsibility, because they chose this government … despite their knowledge of its crimes.”

– Osama bin Laden, endorsing the killing
of American civilians, March 1997

Here are tonight’s news items that I’ll be talking about on when I join my friend, David Lawrence, for my weekly segment on his radio show, The David Lawrence Show:

Medical Data Companies Sue New Hampshire over Privacy Law

Federal Appeals Court Upholds Indiana’s Stronger Do-Not-Call Law

IRS Issues New Advisory on Refund “Phishing” Scams

Senate Minority Leader Suffers ID Theft

Here are tonight’s news items that I’ll be talking about on when I join my friend, David Lawrence, for my weekly segment on his radio show, The David Lawrence Show:

DHS’ New Chief Privacy Officer Gets No Honeymoon

Email Scammers Try New Bait in ‘Vishing’ For Fresh Victims

One Judge Declines to Dismiss One Privacy Suit Against AT&T…

…while Another Judge Dismisses Another Privacy Suit Against AT&T

VA Withdraws Credit-Monitoring Service for Vets with ID Theft Risk