| Controversy over cutting of ‘Boondocks’ episodes
Sooner or later, any satirist who wins a Peabody Award for re-animating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and having him denounce "Soul Plane" runs the risk of upsetting corporate America. That's one theory being floated this week as "The Boondocks" creator Aaron McGruder informs faithful viewers of his edgy, irreverent Adult Swim series that Cartoon Network has unexpectedly shortened the 'toon's second season from a planned 15-episode run to 13. Fifteen episodes were in fact produced but two, titled "The Huey Freeman Hunger Strike" and "The Ruckus Reality Show" aren't currently scheduled to air, allegedly due to controversial material targeting Black Entertainment Television executives. On his Myspace.com page, McGruder has posted the following message to fans: "Okay, so … maybe it's a 13-episode season." More cryptically, links to YouTube clips said to contain content from the episodes posted on McGruder's Myspace page have been mysteriously taken down (when users click on the links to the clips to view them, a "We're sorry, this video is no longer available" message pops up instead).
Mountaineer offense is on the hot seat
GLENDALE, Ariz. - As West Virginia's football season comes to a close, the immediate intrigue is in the unknown. That has nothing to do with who the next Mountaineer head coach will be. That's for another day, a later one. It has everything to do with how 11th-ranked WVU will try to offensively get to 11 wins for a third straight season against Oklahoma (11-2) here on Wednesday night in the Fiesta Bowl. There is some inkling that the Mountaineers (10-2) might try to go to the air more often than they have, although there's no strong evidence to support that. First off, WVU hasn't shown any vertical passing game since Patrick White has been the starting quarterback. Former Coach Rich Rodriguez, time and again, labeled most of his wideouts as unreliable.
Busy DynaBil adds plant, hires workers, expects big bump in sales
A new 33,000-square-foot plant, the latest expansion at DynaBil Industries Inc. in Coxsackie, will help double annual revenue within three years, said company president Paul Burton. The aerospace manufacturer will hire 70 workers, pushing its total work force to 300 by the end of this year. That's almost twice the staff DynaBil had two years ago. The company had already hired 50 employees ahead of an announcement about the new building Feb. 4. DynaBil has been boosted by its role as a parts supplier to Boeing Co.'s 787 "Dreamliner" airplane. The new manufacturing plant gives DynaBil needed space, Burton said. .
Why The Right Loves a Disaster
If Lindsey had his way, Wal-Mart, rather than lose sales, could just loan out money to keep its customers shopping, effectively turning the big-box chain into an old-style company store to which Americans can owe their souls. If this kind of crisis opportunism feels familiar, it's because it is. Over the last four years, I have been researching a little-explored area of economic history: the way that crises have paved the way for the march of the right-wing economic revolution across the globe. A crisis hits, panic spreads and the ideologues fill the breach, rapidly reengineering societies in the interests of large corporate players. It's a maneuver I call "disaster capitalism." Sometimes the enabling national disasters have been physical blows to countries: wars, terrorist attacks, natural disasters.
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