More totally useless info:

You’ve undoubtedly heard that station call letters must begin with W east of the Mississippi and K to the West. While this is usually true when new stations are assigned call letters, it was not always that way.

Why do some areas have stations with both K and W prefixes? Three reasons: (1) they moved the border in 1923, so some areas between the Mississippi River and the extended Texas / New Mexico border have been in both the W area and the K area when new call letters were assigned; (2) there was one year in the 1920s when all new stations had to start with K, so it is theoretically possible to have a K station far east of the Mississippi if they were assigned their call letters in that brief period, including several such stations in Pennsylvania; (3) some stations applied for and received an exception, like WACO in Waco, Texas. Here are some exceptions to the Mississippi River rule.

While all broadcast call letters in the USA begin with K or W, they theoretically could begin with N or A as well. So far, the N and A have only been used for military broadcast stations.

New stations must have at least four letters in the call sign. No more “WGN,” for example. One commenter noted an exception:  “If a radio or TV station is co-owned with another station with a three-letter callset, it can adopt those same calls. That’s how Baltimore got WJZ-FM in 2008, for example.”

Some call signs are as long as seven letters.

While almost all Canadian stations begin with C, there are some in Newfoundland that begin with V. (Those were assigned before Newfoundland/Labrador became a province in 1949.)

“Insane Clown Posse’s Shaggy 2 Dope tried to dropkick Fred Durst this weekend, but failed miserably.”

There’s no sense in arresting him because conviction is impossible. How are you going to assemble an jury of twelve people who don’t think Fred Durst should be dropkicked?

From the comment section:

“If I’m that DA, I bring charges even knowing I’d lose. Totally worth it to be the prosecutor in People v. Dope.”

What was the best nude performance of 1998?
Angelina Jolie in Gia 82 ( 20.05 % )
Reese Witherspoon in Twilight 67 ( 16.38 % )
Rachel Weisz in I Want You 50 ( 12.22 % )
Denise Richards in Wild Things 44 ( 10.76 % )
Alex Kingston in Croupier 31 ( 7.58 % )
Elizabeth Mitchell in Gia 15 ( 3.67 % )
Gwyneth Paltrow in Shakespeare in Love 11 ( 2.69 % )
Holly Hunter in Living Out Loud 10 ( 2.44 % )
Asia Argento in B Monkey 9 ( 2.2 % )
Anna Levine in Fiona 9 ( 2.2 % )
Melissa George in Dark City 9 ( 2.2 % )
Natasha Henstridge in Species II 7 ( 1.71 % )
Monica Bellucci in L'Ultimo Capodanno 6 ( 1.47 % )
Paulina Porizkova in Thursday 6 ( 1.47 % )
Thandie Newton in Besieged 6 ( 1.47 % )
Lara Flynn Boyle in Susan's Plan 6 ( 1.47 % )
Kate Winslet in Hideous Kinky 5 ( 1.22 % )
Elisabeth Shue in Cousin Bette 5 ( 1.22 % )
Catherine McCormack in Dangerous Beauty 4 ( 0.98 % )
Rosario Dawson in He Got Game 4 ( 0.98 % )
Dina Meyer in Poodle Springs 3 ( 0.73 % )
Penelope Cruz in The Girl of Your Dreams 3 ( 0.73 % )
Laura Harris in The Faculty 3 ( 0.73 % )
Natacha Regnier in The Dreamlife of Angels 2 ( 0.49 % )
Julianne Moore in The Big Lebowski 2 ( 0.49 % )
Minnie Driver in The Governess 2 ( 0.49 % )
Anne Heche in Psycho 1 ( 0.24 % )
Embeth Davidtz in The Gingerbread Man 1 ( 0.24 % )
Stefania Rocca in Viol@ 1 ( 0.24 % )
Milla Jovovich in He Got Game 1 ( 0.24 % )
Maria Bello in Permanent Midnight 1 ( 0.24 % )
Greta Scacchi in The Red Violin 1 ( 0.24 % )
Asia Argento in The New Rose Hotel 1 ( 0.24 % )
Nikki Arlyn in Clay Pigeons 1 ( 0.24 % )
Rachel Griffiths in Among Giants 0 ( 0 % )
Toni Collette in Velvet Goldmine 0 ( 0 % )
Natasha Gregson Wagner in Modern Vampires 0 ( 0 % )
Natasha Gregson Wagner in Another Day in Paradise 0 ( 0 % )
Jennifer O'Dell in Sometimes They Come Back ... For More 0 ( 0 % )
Laura Fraser in Divorcing Jack 0 ( 0 % )
Georgina Cates in Illuminata 0 ( 0 % )
Eileen Daly in Razor Blade Smile 0 ( 0 % )
Cate Blanchett in Elizabeth 0 ( 0 % )
Thandie Newton in Beloved 0 ( 0 % )

The end of the Cleveland Indians’ season also means the end for Chief Wahoo

I’m certainly not one to argue for political correctness, but the abolition of this symbol was long overdue. Some people argued against this decision based on tradition. After all, that logo has been around for more than 70 years. But is tradition inherently a good thing? No. Hell, slavery was a tradition in the South.

If you take a look at the other, comparably offensive, racial and ethnic portrayals from the 1940s (buck-toothed Japanese soldiers in ultra-thick glasses, and many levels of “darky” iconography) you have to wonder how this particular one endured. I guess the reason has something to do with power, or rather lack of it. The Japanese are now one of our closest allies and “Japanese Americans” are just “Americans” now. People of African heritage have become a significant power bloc. But Native Americans have not yet obtained a significant voice in the national opera. I just thought about it now, and I can’t name a single famous Native American alive today.

OK, maybe Elizabeth Warren.

(Just fuckin’ withcha. On a serious note, I think Wayne Newton is 50%, but I can’t think of anyone else at 50% or more.)