Monthly Archives: February 2011
The Last Word
Bill Maher talks with Lawrence O’Donnell about bridging “the partisan divide” amongst other things. It’s a great conversation, as might be expected with these two. Speaking of partisan divides, Maher’s remarks about the pointless “feud” with Elisabeth Hasselbeck over a … Continue reading
Filed under Conservatism, Humour, Obama, Republican Party
Dumb & Dumber
Oh, noooo! Please tell me that I don’t have to side with Bill “Wrong About Absolutely Everything” Kristol in the zero-sum ideological spat between him and Glenn Beck over which of these two knuckleheads is best articulating the present “conservative” … Continue reading
Filed under Kooks & Crackpots, Wingnuts
Talking to Americans…
Comedian Kassem G. gauges the awareness of young people in Venice Beach, CA about the revolutionary uprising that’s been taking place in Egypt for the past several weeks. Need I say, with entirely predictable results… Hey, I realize that not … Continue reading
Palin® Gets Dumped
I don’t know, but this story doesn’t quite pass the smell test for me. I’d like to see some substantiation of the “threats and harassment” that currently have the right-wing noise machine so indignantly exercised given that the obscure group … Continue reading
Filed under Wingnuts
Ronnie’s Coin Toss
A “found object” from Harry Shearer and My Damn Channel featuring Ronald Reagan preparing to do the coin toss for Super Bowl XIX back in 1985. Seems kind of appropriate, all considered, don’t you think? I have to admit though, … Continue reading
Filed under Media
Customs Union?
Not to sound all conspiratorial or anything, but isn’t the so-called North American Security Perimeter that is apparently being negotiated behind closed doors by the Harper government and the Obama administration, essentially tantamount to formation of a Customs Union? From … Continue reading
Paxo v. Boris
Jeremy Paxman’s interview with London Mayor Boris Johnson on yesterday’s Newsnight program: What promised at the outset to be a testy confrontation over Johnson’s controversial support of City bankers turned into a surprisingly amiable discussion about the lost morality of … Continue reading
Filed under British Politics, Economy, Humour
Instapertise
Remember back to the 2004 U.S. election when a dubious report by CBS’s 60 Minutes program questioning President Bush’s military record became the subject of heated debate on the Intertubes? Key to the assertions implicit in that report was the … Continue reading
Filed under Humour, Idiot Bloggers
Decoy Muslims
The ONN exposes Al Queda’s latest terror plot – planting millions of normal, hard-working Muslims throughout the nation to get Americans to lower their guard. The promo for Concurrence Roundtable at the end of the bit is priceless.
