Recommended Reading
My pal Aaron Barnhart provides a profile of the Fox News Liberal, Alan Colmes…or as Al Franken likes to call him, Alan Colmes. […]
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The Bush Boom?
Is the economy really on a rebound? I'll believe that when more people start using Paypal to donate money to this site. […]
Late Night Mud Wrestling
Here's an article by Bill Carter on the relative ratings of Leno and Letterman. This one should be read the way you read any political report, with the spokesperson for each side madly spinning their weaknesses as strengths and blaming others for their own shortcomings. And keep in mind that neither show is in any […]
Recommended Reading
Michael Moore provides the foreword for the new collection of Aaron McGruder's comic strip, Boondocks. I think both men take their arguments way too far so it's a good match. And not a bad foreword. […]
Foxed!
A few weeks ago, a lot of sites (including this one) quoted Simpsons creator Matt Groening with a story about Fox News threatening to sue his show for an animated parody that, Fox reportedly felt, might be confused with a real newscast. According to this article, Matt now says he was kidding. […]
Recommended Weblog
One of our funnier stand-up comedians, Margaret Cho, has her own weblog. Very entertaining. Read it and read back a few weeks while you're at it. […]
Where Did We Go Right Wrong?
So how is that The Producers, once the hottest ticket in the history of Broadway, is not what it used to be? Here's an article entitled, "The Case of the Incredible Shrinking Blockbuster." (New York Times registration required) […]
SNL: The Lost Years
Late Saturday nights (i.e., Sunday mornings), NBC airs a "classic" episode of Saturday Night Live in most cities. Unlike the reruns on Comedy Central and E!, these "NBC Up All Night" reruns are not cut down to an hour, so they include all the segments that are cut when that is done. Like the off-network […]
Glx Sptzl Stupid!
I royally screwed up my explanation of the Three Mouseketeers comic book earlier and I can't explain why because I know this stuff. I don't know my federal tax I.D. number or how to find the volume of a cone, but I know stuff like this. So ignore what I wrote earlier and replace that […]
Recommended Reading
The New York Times has a long article on the situation in Iraq…and really all you need to know is its title, which is "Blueprint for a Mess." But if you want to know more than that, here's a link to it for those of you who've signed up for the Times' free subscription and […]
Non-Recommended Reading
Sometimes, a news story is just so stupid, you aren't sure you aren't reading The Onion. Case in point. […]
Recommended Reading
Sidney Blumenthal on how the Bush administration did and didn't anticipate their problems in post-war Iraq. […]
Letters, We Get Letters…
I am informed by (so far) "Garrett," Pierce Askegren, Ryan Mead, Mike Zeidler, Merlin Haas, Craig Wiener, Jim Guida, Hurricane Heenan, Ed Coyote, Don Porges, Johnny Achziger and some guy named Marv Wolfman that once upon a time, a Three Musketeers bar consisted of three sections of nougat — one chocolate, one strawberry, one vanilla. […]
How I Became a Young, Zingy, With-It Guy
One day back in 1967, I was home from school with the flu and to pass the time, I decided to write some letters to comic book letter pages. This, of course, was back when comic books had letter pages. Back when they did, I sent in a lot of letters and amazingly (for a […]
Of Mice and Musketeers
My friend Carolyn was just reading this here weblog and she pointed out a funny typo that I made which I'm not going to correct. In the previous message here, I referred to a certain candy bar as "Three Mouseketeers." That's wrong. Actually, the candy bar I never liked was named "Three Musketeers" — and […]