Ya gotta love it. The striking Writers Guild of America is being struck by its own employees .
Will the picketers be picketed in ever thickening concentric circles producing a narcotizing effect on passersby? Will this drama become its own reality show, eliminating the need for writers altogether? Will Jay Leno picket himself for writing his own monologues while on strike, then cross his own picket line in order to make it on time to do his show? Will someone finally prove that Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter, or will we just let that one slide for now?
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