If you want to get in on a little moment in media history, watch the Dennis Miller Show on CNBC before it’s canceled. It’s a valiant attempt to skewer the Bush-hating left with humor that’s failing to find an audience. The problem is that Dennis’ hip humor, laden with pop-culture references, is lost on the [...]
Bush-haters’ criticisms of the liberation of Iraq tend to follow scripts. One common complaint was first voiced by Wesley Clark at the beginning of his ill-fated but highly amusing run for the nomination, to the effect that Iraq was a “distraction” from the war on terror that actually emboldened the terrorists at the same time [...]
Aaron Swartz has created a website for critiquing and commenting on Free Culture, the latest Lessig sermon against capitalism. It could be a fun exercise.
Link via Jarvis.
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The Epicurious web site has spawned a TV show, arguably the worst cooking show ever. In this week’s episode the bone-head chef made a so-called Philly cheese steak with Provolone instead of Cheez-Whiz and so-called Texas chili with water insead of beer.
The FCC should fine this program for indecent content.
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Imperialism in the Western Hemisphere!. Oh, the shame of it; where’s the UN when our neighbors need them?
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This just in from Ananova:
Picking your nose and eating it is one of the best ways to stay healthy, according to a top Austrian doctor.
So there.
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Tme Magazine’s not exactly a part of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, but they’re not at all impressed with Richard Clarke’s increasingly shrill shilling for his book:
While Clarke claims that he is “an independent” not driven by partisan motives, it’s hard not to read some passages in his book as anything but shrill broadsides. In [...]
Turning the Tide replaces Protein Wisdom as the world’s funniest blog thanks to posts like this one:
People in the more civilized sectors of the world (what we call “the third world,” or the “developing countries”) often burst out laughing when they witness an election in which the choices are two men from very wealthy families [...]
Turning the Tide replaces Protein Wisdom as the world’s funniest blog thanks to posts like this one:
People in the more civilized sectors of the world (what we call “the third world,” or the “developing countries”) often burst out laughing when they witness an election in which the choices are two men from very wealthy families [...]
Leave it to the brilliant Noam Chomsky to peer deep inside the brain of the Anglosphere and expose our fascist ways:
Political leaders in both Washington and London, which assisted in last year’s American-led invasion, insist that what they want to establish in Iraq is a government that answers to the wants, needs and goals of [...]
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