Recommended Reading
Alan Simpson gives us a rather reasonable view of gay rights. At least, it's reasonable for a former Republican senator. […]
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Doonesbury Abuse
Coming up in the Doonesbury comic strip is a sequence about masturbation that some newspapers are choosing not to carry. In this interview over on Salon, Garry Trudeau talks about such controversies. And if you don't subscribe to Salon or don't feel like sitting through its advertising to read the last two paragraphs of this […]
All It's Cracked Up To Be
Thousands of imitations of MAD Magazine have come and gone: Sick, Nuts, Up Your Nose, Blast, National Review, Crazy, etc. The longest running, which is still hanging in there, is Cracked. It started in 1958 and still manages to push out an issue once in a while. Here's a link to the magazine's website. Here's […]
Back in Black
It's a little out of date but here's a video link to Lewis Black's commentary on the New York blackout. RealPlayer required and all that. […]
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A Website Well Worth Watching
I always enjoy a visit to Jim Hill Media, a fun site devoted to cartoons — primarily Disney but others, as well. You'll find a lot to read there but I'd like to recommend… A report on the recent ASIFA tribute to the late 'n' great Daws Butler. I was unable to make it to […]
In Another League
One fun thing about watching Game Show Network's "Black and White Overnight" programming block is that you often get a chunk of history as it was happening. Last night, GSN ran a What's My Line? from September of 1959 and one of the guests was Branch Rickey, a major behind-the-scenes figure in the history of […]
Happy Scott Shaw Day!
Today, in lieu of buying him a present, I note the birthday of my longtime pal, Scott Shaw! I believe I met Scott at Jack Kirby's home in 1970 and, yes, he even signed his name with the exclamation point back then. Our meeting came at a time when Jack and his wife Roz had […]
Five Candidates, Few Answers
I'm watching the gubernatorial debate at the moment and a couple of things leap out at me. All five candidates (Bustamante, Huffington, McClintock, Ueberroth and Camejo) agree that there is massive fraud in areas like Medicare and unemployment but cannot say where it is or how to root it out. Also, all five are in […]
Separated at Birth?
Two quotes with one kind of rhetoric… While there are many reasons young Muslims sacrifice their lives — including the honor and money bestowed onto their families after their death — it is the martyr's afterlife that captures the imagination. […] Candidates for martyrdom were told the first drop of blood shed by a martyr […]
Jerry and His Kids
The 2003 Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon racked up $60.5 million in nationwide pledges for the Muscular Dystrophy Association. That's a record but I wonder how often any sort of major telethon doesn't set a record. I worked on one major telethon about twenty years ago (not Jerry's) and the attitude of its operators was […]
How…Big…Is It?
Those of you who've never been to the Comic-Con International in San Diego can get a little idea of how large and diverse it is in this gallery of convention pics. […]
Recommended Reading
Joshua Micah Marshall dissects the current administration's strategy for playing fast 'n' loose with the truth. (Quick summary: They decide what they want to do — cut taxes for the rich, drill in Alaska, topple Saddam Hussein, etc. — then pretend that that is somehow the answer to an unrelated problem that the public wants […]
Fair and Balanced
Al Franken's new book is riding comfortably atop the Best Seller lists, put there in part by folks who are buying it as a way of giving the finger to Bill O'Reilly and Fox News. I just got around to ordering my copy from Amazon, and of course I have a link here that you […]
The Secret Word…
Coming to DVD September 23: Groucho Marx: You Bet Your Life – The Lost Episodes. Here's a link to order it from Amazon. […]