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This week, Frank Rich talks about what constitutes a scandal these days. […]
Author: Mark Evanier
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Spinsanity, which I haven't mentioned lately, is probably the best site to find an unbiased, fact-based analysis of some of the more egregious distortions and fibs in politics these days. Once in a while, I think they get a little absorbed in parsing precise words as opposed to the effect a speaker manages to convey, […]
Brando Speaks
For obvious reasons and probably for a limited time, Playboy has posted the 1979 interview with Marlon Brando on its website. At the time, it was hailed by journalists as an example of how a clever interviewer — Lawrence Grobel, in this case — could get even a reluctant subject to open up. Brando spews […]
Moore is Never Enough
Less for your enlightenment than mine, I spent a little time last night reading websites that purport to cite errors in Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. I found some that struck me as splitting hairs and others where I thought the critic had turned backflips to try and interpret Moore in a manner that could be […]
Marlon
I have nothing of note to say about Marlon Brando…a great actor who made a lot of great movies. I'm sorry he's gone, and I hope I don't have to look at that clip of him kissing Larry King. […]
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One member of the Reagan Administration I kinda liked was C. Everett Koop, who was the Surgeon General. He has some interesting comments to make about why more was not done then about the growing AIDS crisis. I tend to believe his statement that Reagan was not as blind to the problem as some have […]
A Good Place for Comic Fans To Go
The clever Heidi MacDonald now has a weblog of comic news. Go see, go see. And by the way, did I mention that I'd networked my TiVos? […]
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Henry Beard, who was one of the founders of the National Lampoon, offers a brief comment on Dick Cheney's use of the "f" word. (Thanks to Michael Reaves for the tip.) […]
I Have Networked My TiVos
I have networked my TiVos. I already had my three computers and one of them (all in my office) on my in-house network. Yesterday, I paid a nice man to poke holes in my walls and run network cables to two other rooms. Haven't hooked up a TiVo in my bedroom yet but the one […]
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Here's Michael Kinsley discussing a bad solution to our mounting debt. […]
The Great Top Cat Hunt
The search is still on for films or tapes of original episodes of the 1961 TV series, Top Cat. As explained here, the program is soon to be released on DVD but we're trying to find copies of the original end credits so that they can be restored or re-created. If you have copies that […]
Cola Nuts
I can't stand diet sodas. Actually, I have two objections to them. One is that I don't trust artificial sweeteners. I suspect they aren't good for anyone but I know from past experiences that NutraSweet (at least) is not good for me. This works out okay because my other objection is that I think they […]
News from Vegas
The other day, I posted a message here stating that I'd been told that the Rio Hotel in Vegas had gotten rid of its "Bevertainers." A Bevertainer is a cocktail waitress who puts down the tray every ten or fifteen minutes and performs a musical number on a little platform situated in or around the […]
Fahrenheit 9/11
I am back from seeing about eight thousand previews of coming attractions which were followed by the new Michael Moore film. What follows is my instant reaction and I reserve the right to expand on or amend the following in the days to come. There was a lot there to think about…and I guess that […]
Browsing Browsers
I've been playing with Mozilla Firefox, which is a new and free browser from some of the folks who once brought you the old Netscape browser. So far, it seems faster and easier to use than Microsoft Internet Explorer, though like all competitors, it lacks the universal interchange of I.E. If you're running Windows, you […]