This is how normal people think and talk: “There is no Bureau of Puerto Rican Affairs or Black Affairs or Irish Affairs. And no group in America has been more helped … [Read more...]
Archives for March 2011
Math is hard, says… Media Matters
Bwa ha: Earlier today, Media Matters reported that Glenn Beck’s radio show had lost enough stations that he could no longer claim, as he does on his … [Read more...]
‘I’ve seen every Woody Allen movie. Here’s what I’ve learned…’
Watching Annie Hall and Manhattan (and, yes, Interiors) as a teenager gave me a much needed glimpse into a viable alternative existence to life in my working class factory town. And seeing Allen's character as a child, saying of his classmates, "Even then, I knew they were … [Read more...]
One more thing about that fixed CBC ‘Vote Compass’ political quizmo thing
I talked about this yesterday, and so did pretty much everybody else. One more thing I've just noticed in my travels around the web: The CBC has purchased Google … [Read more...]
UK Villages ‘that want to remain white and middle class’
This is how normal people think and talk: Academics at Leicester University interviewed hundreds of residents from rural communities across England to … [Read more...]
So that makes Ron Reagan… what? A butt plug?
January 2013: Muslims blow up moon
If all goes according to plan, by December 2012 a team of three young Israeli scientists will have landed a tiny spacecraft on the moon... … [Read more...]
I’m so old, I remember when we just called ‘the tipping point’ ‘critical mass’
Yep: How did someone as smart as Rosenberg miss this? Specifically, how did she wind up coining a catchy name for an everyday phenomenon whose benefits she overstates and whose demerits … [Read more...]
Always affirm? Not when Drew Carey’s involved, apparently
I hung out with hardcore (meaning, multiple Second City workshops/three times a week pub gigs/iO) improv nerds for years, and they all liked Whose Line Is It, Anyway? So did I. Lots of laugh 'til you cry moments. Maybe Canadian improv nerds are less -- I dunno -- bitchy, but [Read more...]
Mark Steyn sits in for Rush Limbaugh today, Friday
Eat locally, **** up globally: 6 Socially Conscious Actions That Only Look Like They Help
I told you before about the reusable tote bag scam. [Read more...]
**** it, I’m reposting this ‘libel’
Libel laws are what we got when we outlawed dueling. This quote from a post at The Corner shows why libel suits don't work; they spread the "contagion" … [Read more...]