Gut-wrenching essay about domestic violence from the former Captain Picard. Sadly, many people have been forced to live in this kind of quiet desperation.
- Chris
America, I think you could stand to have a few more non-food-based holidays. All I'm saying is I've seen your waistline.
This isn't all that funny until the muppet starts plugging his book. Then it is comedy genius. Also, why is Sesame Street pimping itself on Fox?
- Chris
Love this review and the reviewer's conclusions about the film and the whole series (it's "dangerous"). But why giant muffins? I really would like to know.
- Chris
New show suggestions for #SyFy: Leprechaun Hunters, Unicorn Hunters, Genie Hunters, Satyr Hunters or Elf Hunters. I'd watch any of those.
A long screed about the typical conservative christian issues, with a lot of thinly veiled language about how they're not going to take any more liberal ideas lying down anymore (as if they ever have). There have always been gay priests and ministers in the church, and marriage in Biblical times was often defined as being between one man, several wives and several more concubines (at least for the rich and the ruling elites, like King David). The fact that these people don't even acknowledge or understand their own history would be laughable if they weren't acting out of this enormous ignorance to quash other people's civil rights.
- Chris
I could only watch through the part where the woman mentions PeTA. I can't believe how bad PeTA is for animal rights. Anyway, as painful as this is, there's no doubt in my mind that if you interviewed the people in line for a Michael Moore event, you would get enough dumb responses to be able to edit them together and make something just like this. It's not conservatives or Republicans or Palin 'fans' who are easily led and have few basic, coherent thoughts at their disposal - it's most Americans.
- Chris
I hate to keep talking about these people, but here I go anyway. It's clear that Beck/Limbaugh et al are just using their audiences to make themselves a decent amount of money. Form a cult of personality around yourself, tell your cult the things they want to hear, then sell them your books and use them to get a big contract on TV and radio. That's all this is. These people like the sound of their own voices, they like the attention, and they like the money. Any such "100-year plan" this guy has will of course be long forgotten by the time everyone who wastes their time and money on him and his books and shows are dead. The right-wing radio/tv people are not the philosophical heirs of Ronald Reagan or Barry Goldwater; no, they've learned everything they know from P.T. Barnum.
- Chris
My first War on Christmas™ link for 2009. The blogger thinks it's a "cool" commercial, but it just seems really lame to me. Details here: http://www.brandweek.com/bw...
- Chris
It sounds like nothing short of commercials featuring nothing but a nativity scene would satisfy the AFA. What a bunch of extreme radicals.
- Etymology Freak
Initially after Katrina there was much political finger-pointing over whose fault it was that the levees failed, but the consistently under-reported truth is that it was ultimately the Corps of Engineers who were at fault. I hope this ruling helps change some of the misperceptions still out there.
- Chris
More Portland transit porn. Really people, it's not *that* great, it's just the way things roughly ought to be in any large-ish city.
- Chris
The buses don't run late around here either and it's a real bummer. I get why they do it, but I wish there was some way to provide limited service later into the night, at least until after bar closing (2 a.m.). Where I live, if I want to go downtown, I either have to catch the last bus back by 11:00 or I have to take a cab, which can be anywhere between $18 and $32. So I continually...
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- Etymology Freak
Normally I don't waste my time on computer games, but Hordes of Orcs is mind-numbingly addictive. http://www.freeverse.com/mac...