Saturday, August 06, 2011

So go figure.

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In the first 10 minutes of this WTF with Marc Maron podcast, Maron reads some e-mails. One of them is from me. He doesn't read my nam...
Monday, August 01, 2011

Again indulging that occasional habit of Amazon reviewing

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Talking to Girls About Duran Duran , by Rob Sheffield.

It's time for the annual try

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And now, four completely unrelated matters. 1. Tuesday, September First, will be my birthday. 2. iTunes sells gift certificates; I have a ...
Saturday, July 30, 2011

A New Feature

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You in my vast reading audience are familiar by now with the fun I like to have with headlines. "Headlines That Should Have Been Rephr...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

I'm beginning to think John Boehner may not be the wisest of men

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Hello. If you follow the doings in our government, you may remember this incident a few months ago: House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) ...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

That's the funniest thing I've heard in years

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"As hours pass and the uncertainty builds, I think the market is starting to price in the potential that we might not have a solution b...
Tuesday, July 26, 2011

I've been dissed by the star of one of my favorite shows!

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Holy shit. Okay, quick backstory. About a month ago, MoveOn.Org ran a clip from the Roseanne show under the headline, What If Everyone Und...
Monday, July 25, 2011

And if that doesn't just say it all.

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With pressure mounting on Congress and the White House to ensure the government doesn't default on its debt, the latest Democratic offer...
Friday, July 22, 2011

I ask for your forgiveness in advance

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Just reading an article about the killings in Norway today . And I want to be clear that I'm as horrified by the thought of them as I h...
Wednesday, July 20, 2011

A choice of replies

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Paris Hilton storms off TV interview after being called a has-been 1. Don't you have to have once been something in order to be a has-...
Tuesday, July 19, 2011

They couldn't have just turned on a TV, I suppose. (Edited w/addition)

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I'm not saying journalism all over the world has other problems than the Murdochs...but I did just notice something. If you read news i...
Monday, July 18, 2011

See, this is how you know you've crossed some sort of a line.

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If You Offer To Masturbate For Her, Sophie Monk WILL Get In Touch With You.
Saturday, July 16, 2011

Appeals to the public? I wouldn't be so sure of that...

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There's an old saying. I've seen it attributed to Mahatma Gandhi, and I've seen it attributed to a "French radical." I...
Friday, July 15, 2011

Gracious. Don't tell me I offend.

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Got a nice note from a fella screennamed "joe_h," who informs me that You have suckass taste in women. This is in reaction to an...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Oh, no no no no no no no no no...

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Mars Needs Moms didn't fall flat soon enough to stop this future eyesore from being made. Spielberg doesn't understand animation m...
Thursday, July 07, 2011

To coin a phrase: This is obviously some new usage of the word "responsibility" I wasn't previously aware of

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Orrin Hatch: The 'Poor' Should Do More To Shrink Debt, Not The Rich "I hear how they're so caring for the poor and so forth...

I'd like to start a rumor--tee hee--that Demi Moore's daughter's real father is Tom Bailey of the Thompson Twins

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Monday, July 04, 2011

Contempt Prior to Investigation

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I haven't seen any of the films on Yahoo!'s list of " The 10 Biggest Movie Flops of 2011 (So Far )," but that's not go...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Did you idiots learn nothing from when O'Reilly sued Franken?

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Remember that? When Bill O'Reilly tried to sue Al Franken because Franken's book annoyed him, and it only had the effect of publi...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

And so it was, later, as the Miller told his tale, that my face at first just ghostly turned a whiter shade of pale

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Oh, my god. So help me, I'm actually starting to feel sorry for Dennis Miller. Like a lot of people, I used to think he was a pretty gre...