Can someone explain to me how Dennis Miller can stay on the air with these ratings? Wait, let me guess. Anyway, I suppose his Daily Show appearance was a futile attempt to save this Quinn-level train wreck. The thing is, as the appearance showed he is more talented than Colin Quinn; sandwiched in between a […]
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Dave Noon takes the lead! Axis of Evel Knievel, Dave Noon: 803Discipline and Punish, Scott Lemieux: 795Swinging at Space, Kirk Jepsen: 765The Spot, Dave Watkins: 762New Mexico Alterdestiny, Erik Loomi
Norbizness offers excerpts from the long-lost draft of theStar Wars Episode 4: Some Guys With Cool Swords Spout New Age Banalities That Would Embarass Deepak Chopra screenplay. For example: —
From Belle Waring: Look, my country is better than this. Or this. Just. Stop. I know I鈥檝e related this before on my own blog, but my grandfather was an OSS spy in WWII. In one of the letters he sent home to my grandmother he describes how he met up with US ground troops who […]
Via Mark Kleiman, an interesting interview with the great Bill James. He’s in fine form, even his baffling ranting about “professionalization” in the New Historical Abstract makes a
TBogg notes that this blog has long sensed the political zeitgeist. And it ain’t that pretty at all…
Kameron Hurely notes that “morning after” contraception will soon be available over the counter in my former home and still native land. Obviously, this is the best way around pharmacist interposition (although as Hurely notes, who knows–maybe cashiers will refuse to ring up sales.) I also enjoyed this quote from a Canadian wingnut: Mary Ellen […]
Via Wolcott. The Venezuelan government has printed one million free copies of Don Quixote to mark the book’s 400th anniversary. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez urged everyone to read Miguel de
Jim Henley offers some suggestions for naming new stadia in D.C. and Indianapolis. I would like to add that this is a particular drawback to the NFL salary cap/revenue sharing structure that we’
Erik at Alterdestiny has an interesting post on the subject of “ecofascism.” In short, Erik is troubled by what he believes are some anti-humanist tendencies in the American environmental movement. I’m not sure I agree, but the steady invocation of Teddy Roosevelt and the recent difficulties of the Sierra Club with a virulent anti-immigrant faction […]
This is pretty funny. Hat tip to JRD. The Ultimate Warrior, like just about any professional wrestler, has been involved in his fair share of over-the-top moments. A voodoo curse was placed on him by
Friday Cat Blogging. . . Stromboli