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Arnold Schwarzenegger (or his ghost writer) about what's happened to the Republican Party. And speaking of him, why is the party of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronald Reagan again assailing Barack Obama for being a "celebrity?" […]
Author: Mark Evanier
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Ezra Klein on what Barack Obama would do in a second term. I think a lot depends on the color of Congress but I would hope that Obama would do at least one of those things he's shown absolutely no intention of doing but which prominent Republicans are running around telling voters he's secretly planning […]
Today's Video Link
I think I linked to this one before, long ago. We continue our hit parade of music by Big Daddy, the group that went to great trouble to make any song from any era sound like it had been recorded in the fifties. In 1992, they did this on a CD of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely […]
My Tweets from Yesterday
At Indianapolis Airport. There's no caste system in America but if you want to feel like a peon, try belonging to the wrong sky miles club. 11:01:28 On a plane to Minneapolis. Someday, L.A. will be a big enough city that there will be direct flights to it. 13:58:56 I have a 45 minute layover […]
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Republicans have often hammered Democrats — especially Democrats running for office — for not using the term, "War on Terror." But as Fred Kaplan notes, the intra-cult memorandums of Osama bin Laden show that bin Laden loved it when Republicans called it that because he thought it was a great recruiting tool for his side. […]
Great Photos of Stan Laurel and/or Oliver Hardy
Number two hundred and twenty-four in a series… […]
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Air Blogging
I'm blogging, largely because I can, from a Delta Airline flight. I don't know how high up we are but the GoGo Wi-Fi doesn't work below 10,000 feet so we're at least there. Remind me never to fly on a Friday afternoon. The Minneapolis airport was like the stateroom scene in A Night at the […]
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Michael Kinsley thinks Mitt Romney made a big, cowardly mistake to demote a trusted spokesperson just because the more rabid right-wingers didn't like that the guy they're stuck voting for had an openly-gay press representative. Apparently, the guy would have been more trustworthy if he'd lied and pretended to be straight. I'm not sure it's […]
Today's Video Link
Here's a video of a live performance by Big Daddy — live somewhere in Orange County, it says. They took the hit by Foreigner, "I Want to Know What Love Is" and they rearranged and mashed it up with "La Bamba" by Ritchie Valens — and look at what they got… […]
Strange(r) Tails
I seem to have confused a few of you about the Cast of Cat Characters in my backyard. The Stranger Cat, as we know too well, just went and died of old age. "But what," several correspondents have written to ask, "became of the Stranger Stranger Cat?" Allow me to elucidate… The Stranger Cat was […]
Buzz
Here, as promised, is a much better obit than mine for Buzz Potamkin. […]
Great Photos of Stan Laurel and/or Oliver Hardy
Number two hundred and twenty-three in a series… […]
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Go Experience This!
You know what I'd like to see? I'd like to see a gallery of photos from 1950 of popular cartoonists — including Milton Caniff, Alfred Andriola, Ernie Bushmiller, Bill Holman and Otto Soglow — drawing on women in bathing suits. And I'd like to thank Craig Miller for sending me a link that makes it […]
A Much-Asked Question
On the old version of this blog, each item had a little obvious permalink that you could copy and use to link to the item in question or send the link to someone else. We still have that even if it isn't as obvious. It's incorporated into the subject line. See up above where it […]
Today's Video Link
Here's another selection from Big Daddy, the group that took current hits (current at the time they were active) and mashed 'em up with fifties tunes. This is a music video they did of the song "The Land Down Under" when it was big on the charts. Only they didn't do it the way it […]