Great Photos of Stan Laurel and/or Oliver Hardy
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Mitt Romney's plan for Medicare is vague, probably deliberately so. The less you divulge of a plan some people won't like, the less likely you are to lose the votes of those people. Patrick Caldwell summarizes what we know of it. It pretty much comes down to privatizing the system so that the government-run system […]
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James Lipton gives Mitt Romney advice on how to come across as a more "authentic" human being. This is a little like Newt Gingrich counselling couples on how to have a long, faithful marriage but here you are… […]
Ellen Twain
I didn't think to mention one nice thing about Ellen DeGeneres getting that Mark Twain Award: It reminds us that groups like that so-called "One Million Moms" can stomp their considerably-less-than-two-million feet and denounce someone as a bad person…and fail spectacularly to hurt that person. They demanded J.C. Penney fire her as spokesperson. J.C. Penney […]
My Tweets from Yesterday
TSA agents did a complete pat-down of Henry Kissinger at the airport. Found six harbor mines, three nukes and Jill St. John. 13:43:45 […]
The Three-Minute Rule
One memory here leads to another. I was writing here the other day about a "crush" I had back around '71 on the actress Paula Prentiss… I was hardly alone in this and hadn't been since certain of my friends discovered that the cute lady on He and She (a sitcom in desperate need of […]
Great Photos of Stan Laurel and/or Oliver Hardy
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Street Smarts
Okay: At the advice of dozens, I have reported the Google Map problem to the Google folks, along with the suggestion that they consult Mapquest, which has it right. I hope they don't take that as a personal attack. Let's see how long it takes to get this corrected. Thanks to all who told me […]
Street of Dreams
Here's an interesting "Should I do anything?" question. Google Maps has just decided there's a street in my neighborhood that doesn't really exist. There's an unnamed alley that I guess kinda looks like a street on their aerial satellite views. But it's an alley with no name and you can't really travel down it very […]
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John Cleese, stuck in traffic… […]
Never the Twain Shall Meet…
So the next Mark Twain Award for American Humor is going to Ellen DeGeneres. I like her but as folks say whenever Gilbert Gottfried opens his mouth, "Too soon!" Let us remember some of the great living comic talents who have not received the Mark Twain Award: Sid Caesar, Stan Freberg, Shelley Berman, Don Rickles, […]
Innocence Lost
So did Texas execute an innocent man despite clear-cut evidence that he was innocent? Some folks at Columbia University think they have solid proof that Carlos DeLuna, who died via lethal injection in 1989, was the wrong guy. Why do I have the feeling this will get swept under the rug and never properly addressed? […]
Max is Not Smart
One of the three remaining feral cats I feed in my backyard is Max. He's the one who's about the size of a Honda Accord. This is because he is perpetually hungry and I'm dumb enough to feed him about 5% of the time he demands to be fed. It still works out to four […]
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Norm Ornstein used to be one of those talking heads you saw all the time on TV newstalk shows, especially the Sunday morning kind. Now, they don't want him. What did he do? Well, it might be this book he co-authored that advances the theory that contrary to the frequent consensus on those shows, it […]
Great Photos of Stan Laurel and/or Oliver Hardy
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