Michele Bachman's presidential campaign is off to a fantastic start. I mean, she's just KILLING out there.
Learn to Google. Too funny!
27 June 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Gay Marriage in New York
Last week, New York became the latest state to end discrimination in marriage. Very soon, gay or straight, you will be able to marry in New York. Marvelous. First, The Empire State, now the Empire.
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27 June 2011
27 June 2011
Cars 2: Pixar Finally Fails
I'll admit it. That headline makes it seem like I was hoping that Pixar would fail. However, nothing could be farther from the truth. No other movie studio has produced such a string of hits for so long, movies that I've always liked and often loved.
My wife and I loved the original Cars. It was all the things that make Pixar great: charming, funny, smart, clever, and endearing. So it was with great anticipation that we went to Cars 2 Saturday evening. It was horrible. Take the opposite of all of those descriptive words above and then add boring. Don't bother.
One more thing: We went to the late showing to avoid children. You can't avoid children. There we were, in a theater in which the movie would not end until nearly 11 PM, surrounded by children. And not just older kids, many of these kids were four or five. And since their parents had already proven to be worthless, they went the full monty and loaded these kids up with soda to boot.
I fear for the species.
27 June 2011
My wife and I loved the original Cars. It was all the things that make Pixar great: charming, funny, smart, clever, and endearing. So it was with great anticipation that we went to Cars 2 Saturday evening. It was horrible. Take the opposite of all of those descriptive words above and then add boring. Don't bother.
One more thing: We went to the late showing to avoid children. You can't avoid children. There we were, in a theater in which the movie would not end until nearly 11 PM, surrounded by children. And not just older kids, many of these kids were four or five. And since their parents had already proven to be worthless, they went the full monty and loaded these kids up with soda to boot.
I fear for the species.
27 June 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Rapture: Well, That was Awkward
My wife sent me this funny story following the rapture-that-wasn't last month.
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Photo taken from MYFOX8.com, story of staff writer Scott Gustin.
24 June 2011
Photo taken from MYFOX8.com, story of staff writer Scott Gustin.
24 June 2011
Ferris Bueller Sequel?
Is a sequel to Ferris Bueller's Day Off in the works? Well, probably not, but there is a very funny what-if trailer in the Net.
24 June 2011
Addition: They actually are making -- or remaking -- Footloose. This cannot end well.
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24 June 2011
Addition: They actually are making -- or remaking -- Footloose. This cannot end well.
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Thursday, June 23, 2011
Tuesday, June 21, 2011
National Debt: The View of a Money Man
As introduced by Josh Marshall at TPM:
Full post here.
21 June 2011
22 June 2011 Addition: The former chief economist of the IMF, another Money Man, weighs in. Debt default would be "a calamity."
This is really a must-read piece. Not because of the message but the messenger. The hyper attention to the country's debt is supposed to be in reaction to the bond market, the people who buy our debt. But the biggest bond guy in the country is telling Congress that while getting the deficit/debt in order is important long term it's simply crazy to think massive budget cutting is going to create the jobs or the growth the country needs. Unfortunately, that's the mindset now of people on both sides of the aisle.
Full post here.
21 June 2011
22 June 2011 Addition: The former chief economist of the IMF, another Money Man, weighs in. Debt default would be "a calamity."
Monday, June 13, 2011
American Worker: No Rest for the Weary
From Aaron Wiener at TPM:
13 June 2011Check out the entire story at the link above. And, of course, it looks quite a bit different for American businesses.
Workers tend to bear the brunt of the American economy's boom and bust cycles. When recessions hit and unemployment rises, workers' share of the national income -- the money people earn through wages and salaries, as opposed to corporate profits and capital gains -- tends to decline. And when the economy recovers, workers' portion of the country's income rebounds to somewhere around its level prior to the recession.
At least that's how it went in the 20th century. But since the recession of the early 2000s, we've seen the decline without the recovery -- even after the recession ended, workers' portion of national income continued to drop consistently, declining up to and through the recession of the late Bush and early Obama years. Which raises the question: Has the economy changed in a fundamental way that will prevent workers from enjoying the benefits of the current incipient recovery?
13 June 2011Check out the entire story at the link above. And, of course, it looks quite a bit different for American businesses.
Tuesday, June 7, 2011
Sarah Palin: The Word that You are Searching for is Stupid
For some time, I thought that Sarah Palin was uninformed, uneducated, and uninterested. I didn't think she was stupid. Turns out, she is uninformed, uneducated, uniterested, and stupid. She is the perfect storm of vapidity.
If you want living proof of her dull mental power, look no further than her description of Paul Revere's famous ride.
After getting, quite litterally, every detail of the event incorrect, after even being called out by Fox News, she of course claimed that wrong is right, up is down, black is white. It got so very sad that Palin supporters -- and what a bat-shit-crazy lot they must surely be -- took to Wikipedia to alter the entry for the Revere ride to fit her warped reality.
Of course, Palin blamed the media for her woes, claiming a "gotcha question." What was the unfair, hard-nosed, mean-spirited question that she was asked that prompted her Revere Ramble? "What have you seen so far today and what are you going to take away from your visit?" I shit you not. As Jon Stewart says, "It doesn't make it a 'gotcha question' just because it got ya."
As usually, comedy was the best response to Palin. Check out Stephen Colbert here. Jon Stewart dealt with it here.
7 June 2011
If you want living proof of her dull mental power, look no further than her description of Paul Revere's famous ride.
After getting, quite litterally, every detail of the event incorrect, after even being called out by Fox News, she of course claimed that wrong is right, up is down, black is white. It got so very sad that Palin supporters -- and what a bat-shit-crazy lot they must surely be -- took to Wikipedia to alter the entry for the Revere ride to fit her warped reality.
Of course, Palin blamed the media for her woes, claiming a "gotcha question." What was the unfair, hard-nosed, mean-spirited question that she was asked that prompted her Revere Ramble? "What have you seen so far today and what are you going to take away from your visit?" I shit you not. As Jon Stewart says, "It doesn't make it a 'gotcha question' just because it got ya."
As usually, comedy was the best response to Palin. Check out Stephen Colbert here. Jon Stewart dealt with it here.
7 June 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
June 4: Hug You Cat Day
Saturday, June 4th, actually is National Hug Your Cat Day. Of course, in my life, that is every day.
Do it. You know you want to.
3 June 2011
Do it. You know you want to.
3 June 2011
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