Saturday Night Video – Gary Busey Self-Parody

February 4, 2012 by 3 Comments

Gary Busey advertizes for a local KIA dealership. I’m curious…how are we supposed to tell this apart from a Saturday Night Live parody?

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Odd Google Results

February 4, 2012 by 9 Comments

So, while I’m on the subject of Google…I don’t have intricate statistics on who comes to this blog from where — let alone why — but WordPress does tell me which Google searches lead the unsuspecting to Polentical.

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Obama Approval

February 4, 2012 by Leave a comment

Talking Points Memo has generated an excellent graph correlating President Obama’s approval rate to the political events at the time. The upshot is that his ratings fell when he engaged in the ridiculous debt ceiling fight with Republicans, both of them competing to cut services in a time of great need. His ratings later rose when he chose to fight for a payroll tax cut.

English: Barack Obama

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Daily Show / Colbert Report: Week in Review

February 4, 2012 by 6 Comments

Monday

On The Daily Show, the guest was Lou Dobbs. Mr. Dobbs showed himself to be all suit and no brain, as he tried to argue that the Texas redistricting found to disenfranchise minority voters was actually a case of activist judges, and he dismissed Occupy as a movement because he hasn’t seen big enough rallies yet.

On The Colbert Report, Harvard Professor Laurence Tribe spoke of having taught Constitutional Law to both Barack Obama and Chief Justice John Roberts. Of Roberts, Tribe showed wit and wisdom when he said:

I’m not sure how much I taught actually made a difference.

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