HEY KEITH
From one of the links in Michael’s post aboutGlenn Beck: “A couple days after Kelly’s wife, Terry, had a miscarriage, Beck called her live on the air and says, ‘We hear you had a miscarriage,’ ”...
View ArticleMembers of Congress: Not Rocket Surgeons
I think today I shall refrain from posting anything butGAH GAH GAH GAH GAH over and over: Yesterday, Rep. Buchanantweeted, “If the public plan is so great, why shouldn’t members of Congress be required...
View ArticleSo Do The Sick Kids You Stalk
Aww, Michelle has feelings! Unsurprisingly, in Lloyd Grove’s attempt to outdo Time in the random conservative psycho knob-polishing event in this week’s Stupid Olympics, there’sscant recounting of...
View ArticleMonetizing the News
If only there was a way to do it: Katie Couric’s annual salary is more than the entire annual budgets of NPR’sMorning Edition andAll Things Considered combined. Couric’s salary comes to an estimated...
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Friday Ferretblogging
They really do like each other. Riot thinks Bucky makes an excellent mattress. A.
View ArticleLetter From New Orleans: Michel
Okay, it’s time to introduce another recurring feature from the new guy. It’s sort of anhommage to my favorite magazine, The New Yorker. They’ve been running “letters from” various places for eons. If...
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Friday Cat Blogging
It’s time for the current generation of my kitties to make their First Draft debut. They’re the latest in a long line of knuckleheads that Dr. A and I have had over the years. The first picture...
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Quitting Time Booster Shot
Welcome to the Booster, where we enjoyed a simple ride to clear our head today and make us glad to be alive. – Had an experience today that mirroredthis article from the NYT. I was making a rather...
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Care Packages
I was JOKING about needing a forklift, but it might be useful in getting all of this to the post office: It’s hard to see under all of the everything but for the record that is 25 pounds of coffee (at...
View ArticleBored Now
Josh: Interestingly, according to the poll, support for a public option has jumped 5 points since late August andopposition to it has dropped 8 points. Emphasis mine, because of course it has. I mean,...
View ArticleLetter From New Orleans: Comfortably Numb
It’s time for more recycling from the new guy. I posted this on July 13, 2006 and I wish I could say that we’re no longer comfortably numb in New Orleans but we’ve had a bit of a relapse. That’s what...
View ArticleBoundaries… Like the corners of your crotch…
(It’s like this and like that and like this… So please stop talking…) I’ve never been accused of being a prude, and I’ve never really had people worrying that they were offending my delicate...
View ArticleToday on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Duck Soup Edition
Good morning, gentle people – My favourite Marxist philosopher (Groucho) once said (when asked to explain the plot of their new movie)“Take two turkeys, one goose, four cabbages, but no duck, and mix...
View ArticleUncomfortable Plot Summaries
True, but reductive: BATMAN: Wealthy man assaults the mentally ill. CUJO: Family neglects to give family pet rabies shots, pays price. HIGHLANDER: Elderly immigrant destroys property. PRETTY BABY:...
View ArticlePractice City
Amanda: Yes, it’s surprising that traffic on the sidewalk is coming and going, which indicates that people using the sidewalks may not be going in the same direction as you. This isn’t like Disneyland,...
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My Primary Vote, Ladies and Lolcats
Allow me a moment here. AWW HELL YEAH BITCHES IT’S FUCKIN’ ON NOW WHO WANTS SOME HUH WHO WANT SOME YOU YOU AND WHAT ARMY I SAID WHAT ARMY DROWN THE KIDS AND SHOOT THE NEIGHBORS WOULD YOU GET A LOAD OF...
View Article‘That Distinction Doesn’t Really Count for Shit Anymore’
I am buried in work this week, just buried. I would have missed this entirely but apparently I’ve trained you all so well that you find me things I like on your own. Pretty soon this blog will be...
View ArticleThe Jim Abbott Of South Louisiana
I rarely post uplifting items but there was afront page story in Sunday’s New Orleans Times-Picayune that melted my icy blue heart. It’s about Timmy Ruffino who is an eight year old little leaguer with...
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