Fox News–Something Fishy is Going On…
Posted on September 15, 2008 - Filed Under
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WikipediaI wouldn’t call it a guilty pleasure–I generally wince in pain at the bloviating ad hominems–but on occasion I will check in on Fox News to see just what garbage they’re spewing these days. Last night was one such occasion.
What I noticed caught me a bit off-guard. There was a story on the [...]
Chinese leaders are well aware
Posted on May 18, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThe Times, without citation, seems to have some inside sources on the post-Mao government’s awareness.
On Monday, for instance, China’s response to the earthquake as constrasted with Myanmar’s to the cyclone:
With scenes of the calamitous cyclone in Myanmar still fresh — and the military government’s languid, xenophobic response earning it international scorn — China’s Communist Party [...]
Rose2.0
Posted on April 25, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI may skew towards exaggeration, but this is surely a contender for FUNNIEST YOUTUBE VIDEO EVER.
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Read More..>>John Updike: Early Sabermetrician?
Posted on March 31, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentJoe Posnanski sez:
I’ve always thought that the patron saint of “clutch hitting is a myth†is not Bill James at all, but rather the author John Updiike. In his famous, “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu†story about Ted Williams final game, he wrote:
“For me, Williams is the classic ballplayer of the game on a hot [...]
Short Attention Span Musings: Easter 2008 edition
Posted on March 25, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAnyone else notice the heavy influx of commercial interruptions to March Madness this year? The one time I bothered to keep track, we had 9 minutes of commercials interrupted by 35 seconds of PT. Maybe DVR has spoiled me, but I was forced to tape the game and turn off the TV [...]
Read More..>>Omaha - Stuff White People Like
Posted on March 21, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThe Gray Lady meets Omaha film organization meets social “commentary”:
http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com/2008/03/20/white-people-in-the-news-march-20th-2008/
No Refuge from Old Cliches
Posted on March 4, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI really thought David Carr of the Times was with me with its blog posting “No Country for Old Metaphors” but, alas I was wrong.
His employer fares no better: “No Country for Old Hatreds”
It’s a damn epidemic.
No Country for Old Jerseys
No Country for Old Glory
No Country for Old Dictators
No Country for Old Cows
No [...]
i know you are but what am i?
Posted on February 26, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentHilarity ensues at garfield minus garfield
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mobile onion
Posted on February 6, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentFavorite “find” of the week for me? The Onion’s mobile site. A fireworks barb always helps me get through those longer bathroom breaks.
Read More..>>AP drives me to drink
Posted on February 1, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentRemember when we used to watch WWF on Saturday (or was it Sunday) on Free TV? Back when Andre the Giant & Sergeant Slaughter roamed the canvas, bouts were scheduled for “one fall” & 3 of 5 wrestlers hailed from “Parts Unknown”. I do, at least. I don’t remember much else, except that if somebody [...]
Read More..>>daggummit
Posted on January 15, 2008 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentIf the road to hell is paved with good intentions, then surely the path to the bathroom at the “primitive” rest stop is paved with Essential Lists. Just for fun(?), I’d see which 120 Essential pop records I own.
Spoiler Alert!! Not to be found in this list: Guns N Roses, AC/DC, Michael Jackson, Replacements, [...]
what’s funnier than doggie date rape?
Posted on November 9, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentFrom today’s “Flying McCoys” (found while waiting for lunch)
Answer: Most everything.
Read More..>>Who Needs a wimpy 10-Day forecast?
Posted on October 12, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentSF Gate gives us the big picture: “The rain did flood parts of the Highways 101 and 280, although they were not submerged, as Florida could be in 100 years.”
Read More..>>how you say? …. ah yes
Posted on October 4, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentI think the word the AP is struggling for is “penis”
One acrylic-on-canvas work titled “Tulip Butts” shows the red imprint of a backside representing the open petals of a tulip with an imprint between them from an adjacent body part that represents a flower’s stamen.
words on the march
Posted on October 2, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment“WBAI program director Bernard White fears that the FCC will fine the station $325,000 for every one of Ginsberg’s dirty-word bombs. If each Pacifica station that aired the poem - and possibly repeated it - were to be fined for airing “Howl,” it could mean millions of dollars in fines.”
Anywho…it will be posted on http://www.pacifica.org/.
And [...]
If Bill O’Reilly were a rapper
Posted on September 25, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a Comment…you know he’d go by “B. Ill”. Jay gives us a sample of his hypothetical flow.
Makes me want to listen [MP3] to The Coup doing the same1 with David Rockefeller, JP Getty and Donald Trump.
Meanwhile, Davey D has David Banner, Master P., and Mike Dyson’s opening comments on the hill.
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What are we talking bout?
Posted on September 14, 2007 - Filed Under
| 2 CommentsFrank Zappa’s talking about words.
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cue the obligatory Allen Iverson.
Things I wish I wrote, episode 1
Posted on September 10, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentThe Onion: Pitchfork Gives Music 6.8
“Coming in at an exhausting 7,000 years long, music is weighed down by a few too many mid- tempo tunes, most notably ‘Liebesträume No. 3 in A flat’ by Franz Liszt and ‘Closing Time’ by ’90s alt-rock group Semisonic,” Schreiber wrote. “In the end, though music can be brilliant at [...]
I never read that book before, but I still get the metaphor
Posted on August 23, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentTo piggyback Dave, I point thee toward the sage Rake who posits: “perhaps the problem with Lennie Small is not that he failed in hugging Curley’s wife, but rather that he let go too soon.”
Read More..>>student paper covers racial issues, school system panics
Posted on April 13, 2007 - Filed Under
| Leave a CommentAhhh…the crucible that is high school journalism. Benson (Omaha) High School’s student newspaper ran an apparently thoughtful and well-received issue about the so-called n-word (that would be ‘nigger’ for those scoring at home). OPS assures the community that “Appropriate action will ensue upon the completion of the investigation.” Uh, okay.
Other fun facts from the [...]