Tuesday Night Video – The Daily Show on Mittens vs. Newt
January 31, 2012 3 Comments
As we follow the returns, here’s Jon Stewart’s take on the Florida GOP primary, from yesterday.
TV in Review: Sherlock, “A Study in Pink”
January 31, 2012 10 Comments
Okay, so I’m late to the game as usual with Sherlock…but in a way, aren’t we all late when matched up against Mr. Holmes?
Sherlock premiered in the UK in July of 2010 and is an update of the the classic mysteries penned by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle over a century ago. The opening seconds are quite insistent about how un-Victorian they are — the slickly shot images of modern warfare announce to us that this is not going to be an old-fashioned BBC costume drama.
Newt’s Electoral Allure
January 31, 2012 Leave a comment
When three women want to sign on for life with a man who is now running for president, I worry more about whether we’ll be clamoring for a third Gingrich term, not whether we’ll want to let him go after one.
–Dr. Keith Ablow, Fox News
“Newt Gingrich’s Three Marriages Mean He Might Make a Strong President–Really”
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Monday Night Video – Rufus Wainwright
January 30, 2012 2 Comments
I’ve had this song in my head the whole month, first thinking about it because of New Year’s resolutions. Have you kept yours?
cigarettes and chocolate milk
these are just a couple of my cravings
everything it seems i like’s a little bit stronger
a little bit thicker
a little bit harmful for me
New Monty Python Project
January 30, 2012 Leave a comment
Point in favor of my parents: when I was a child, they brought me to see The Life of Brian. The woman at the box office of this small (and small-minded) town tried to convince them that it might not be suitable for a nine-year-old.
“It’s part of his education,” they replied.
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In Defense (Believe It Or Not) of James O’Keefe
January 30, 2012 2 Comments
It’s disappointing to see progressive groups calling for James O’Keefe and his “voter fraud” colleagues to be prosecuted. The doofuses didn’t intend to vote with their illegally obtained ballots. As Scott Keyes writes at Think Progress:
O’Keefe’s men insisted on returning to their car to retrieve their ID and returned the ballot(s).
Is O’Keefe a liar who should be discredited?
How Rivers Handled Handler (and Conan O’Brien, too)
January 30, 2012 5 Comments
For those who enjoy comedians criticizing each other, it was fortuitous timing that, the day after Chelsea Handler visited Howard Stern for the first time, Stern regular Joan Rivers happened by and confronted Handler’s criticism.
Against the advice of her daughter Melissa, Joan added fuel to the fire, quickly putting lie to her initial statement that…
I don’t even know who [Handler] is.
Sunday Night Cat Video
January 29, 2012 1 Comment
Should be played full screen, when you are very very very tired.
San Francisco Theater Review: The Gondoliers
January 29, 2012 Leave a comment
Today sees the last performance of The Lamplighters’ production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Gondoliers, up in Walnut Creek. It’s a play I’d never seen until about a week ago, when they played it in San Francisco.
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Tuition Fairness
January 29, 2012 6 Comments
I’m glad that President Obama is turning some attention to the cost of higher education. Among the reforms I hope he’ll consider will be to add a little capitalism to university tuition.
