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I’m Beginning to Think Max Blumenthal is an Idiot
UPDATE BELOW (and partly re-written thanks to the #@%% server crashing and losing half my text)
I’m not one to go after other lefty bloggers, but Max Blumenthal’s Toby Keith diatribes are becoming more than a little much to take without mockery.
I think it’s long been accepted in the blogsphere that bloggers really aren’t responsible [...]
Charles Barkley on Conservative Republicans
Perhaps I am late to the game here, but this is just awesome starting at about 3:28, when he says “Everytime I hear the word ‘conservative’ it makes me sick to my stomach because they’re really just fake Christians…”
RandyH at BMT
Sweeney Todd, The Review
I saw Sweeney Todd at the movies last night. It was a mixed bag. The movie was very faithful to the script, which I applaud. On the other hand, it took awhile for Depp to find his footing (and he never really decided on an accent), Helena Bonham Carter was either miscast [...]
Read More..>>In Which I Praise Barry Manilow
I never thought I would be saying this ever, but hip hip hooray for Barry Manilow, who backed out of an appearance on Clucking Hen Party The View because he refused to be interviewed by right wing chickenhead Elizabeth Hasselbeck:
Manilow, who has been on the show before - once he hugged Hasselbeck - was to [...]
“Men Can’t Keep their Hands Off It.”
I’m not angry the way Aravosis is about the homophobic Snickers ad during the Super-Bowl (I also didn’t know there was an online interactive partner to the ad either), but I will note that there was a widespread gay theme running through pretty much all the ads, ranging from men bitch-slapping each other over a [...]
Read More..>>It’s a Word, It’s a Plan
It’s Letterman.
Narrated by Joan Rivers, of all people.
Read More..>>This is Jeff’s Work
I’ve argued before that Jeff Keane’s growing involvement with writing, in addition to illustrating, the Family Circus as his father Bil prepares to hand over the reins makes for a fresh take on an old and fairly bland staple of the funny pages. And while I realize this sounds sort obsessive, I can usually [...]
Read More..>>Get on the Good Foot: James Brown, 1933-2006
Godfather of Soul, Hardest Working Man in Show Business, is Dead.
No PCP jokes, please. I only saw James once, and the man was a force of nature. Watching him perform on the steps of the Art Museum about two years ago, I was stunned to realize he was 70. The [...]
Drugs Are Like That
You have to wait for about the 50 second mark, but you’ll hear the best anti-drug song ever. It totally makes me want to take drugs. I haven’t posted part 2, but whoever sings the closing theme sounds like he’s done about a gazillion bonghits. not little ones either, those massive two-foot [...]
Read More..>>It’s a Miracle!!
AddedI guess this video is probably more prosaic to my female visitors, but since I’ve never seen what the girls got during sex ed, it’s pretty amusing.
At Thompson Junior High, the coach talked about guys getting their balls knocked into their abdomens by a bad grounder and the importance of a cup. I don’t [...]
