Saturday, October 14, 2006

Recommended Reading

Terry Jones welcomes George W. Bush into the World League of Despots.

• Posted at 7:51 PM · LINK

Today's Video Link

The video quality on this one ain't great but it's only a minute. You can bear it. It's a TV commercial for the "Camp Granada" board game that came out in 1965, attempting to cash in on Allan Sherman's hit song, "Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh." I don't recall ever owning or playing the game but I think I looked through one once and found its board, cards and instructions to be rather funny to the point where it looked like Mr. Sherman actually had something to do with their creation. Perhaps it wasn't much of a game since it seemed to disappear from the stores (not in a good way) rather rapidly. Anyway, here's the commercial and I'll warn you that it's full of kids who don't sing very well. Not that Allan Sherman himself was Ezio Pinza or anything...

• Posted at 5:54 PM · LINK

Recommended Reading

Bill Maher had what I thought was a particularly good closing editorial last night on Real Time. If you're not going to catch one of the replays in the coming week, you might want to read the text of it, which you can do on this page at Salon. If you're not a Salon subscriber, you'll have to watch an online ad or two.

If you do watch the show, you might want to check out the text anyway. What got on the air was slightly rewritten with a number of trims, probably of lines that didn't elicit sufficient laughter at the Dress Rehearsal.

The speech is about the Mark Foley situation but from a different perspective than I've heard elsewhere. Our kids are harmed and threatened by a lot of things much worse than one oversexed Congressman. Why aren't we more concerned about those matters?

• Posted at 2:16 AM · LINK