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Good afternoon, everyone. "Family Guy" fans may be interested to hear that Patrick Warburton -- who voices Joe, the wheelchair-bound policeman -- is publicly criticizing the show's recent flippant reference to Sarah Palin as the parent of a child with Down syndrome.

"I know it's satire but, personally, that [joke] bothered me, too," Warburton said on a conference call to promote his other prime-time show, the CBS sitcom "Rules of Engagement," which returns for a fourth season on March 1. "I know that you have to be an 'equal-opportunity offender,' but there are some things that I just don't think are funny."

In other news:

End of an era: After 30 years, weatherman Bob Ryan is leaving Channel 4.

Writer Karyn Langhorne Folan says single black women should start dating outside their race, stat. "Black women are in market failure," Folan says. "The solution is to find a new market for your commodity. And in this case, we are the commodity and the new market is men of other races."

Today's must-read: Karl Vick's riveting dissection of John Michael Farren's attempted murder case. Farren, a former Bush administration attorney, allegedly tried to bludgeon his wife to death with a flashlight in January.

This week in local theater: Studio Theatre's "That Face" is so-so; Olney Theatre's "Bus Stop" is pretty good.

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By The Reliable Source | February 25, 2010; 11:47 AM ET
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