Archive for June, 2007
Posted: Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 @ 1:13 pm in Daily Links | No Comments »
In case you missed it last week, readers, I want you to head over to Appletree and watch the amazing four-part video of a trial lawyer, drunk in court, trying his best to talk his way out of all the trouble he’s gotten himself into. The lawyer tried to blame the fact that he [...]
Posted: Wednesday, June 27th, 2007 @ 12:59 pm in Political | 3 Comments »
Two of the most pathetic clowns of the far right are at it again, readers. Here is a double whammy from Michael “Darth” Savage and Ann Coulter, clowning around as they try to smear Scary Secret Muslim Barack Obama.
Exhibit A: Michael “Darth” Savage repeats the debunked lie that Barack Obama was “indoctrinated” in [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 @ 6:26 pm in Daily Links, Literature | No Comments »
A new feature, readers — the Daily Link.
I really enjoyed “How I Spent the War” by Günter Grass. It appeared in the New Yorker several weeks ago, and I’ve been meaning to link to it here ever since.
Günter Grass, 1999 Nobel laureate (for Literature), shocked Germany and the rest of the world when he [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 @ 6:07 pm in Misc | No Comments »
Readers, have you ever seen a creepier human being than this?
That’s Curtis Michael Allgier, a prison inmate who allegedly killed a corrections officer during the course of an escape attempt yesterday.
I like tattoos, and have three of them myself, but come on — who would do this to their face? Only somebody who felt [...]
Posted: Thursday, June 21st, 2007 @ 8:05 pm in Cinema | 7 Comments »
The American Film Institute has released the latest version of its Top 100 American Films list.
I’ve seen only 42 of them, and four of those I remember so dimly and vaguely that I really might as well never have seen them at all. How many of them have you seen, readers?
What do you think [...]
Posted: Tuesday, June 19th, 2007 @ 5:37 pm in Misc | No Comments »
Michelle Malkin has revamped her blog. Her RSS feed now consists of nothing but hyperlinks (“Read this post >>”) to the blog posts themselves, so that you have no choice but to visit her site if you want to read her dreck. That is an incredibly annoying practice.
Posted: Monday, June 11th, 2007 @ 3:23 pm in Political | 10 Comments »
The doctor is IN, readers, over at Liberal Quicksand, where our sometimes friend/sometimes enemy Dank Hagny seems to be trying to start a blogfight and indulging in sub-Krauthammerian wingnut armchair psychoanalysis:
[L]iberals want government to do everything for them. They have no confidence in their abilities, and hence are unhappy people.
Before I get railroaded with [...]
Posted: Monday, June 4th, 2007 @ 11:19 pm in Misc | 4 Comments »
Even though I live in Pittsburgh now, I still keep an eye on the Washington City Paper for its feature stories, which are sometimes fascinating. You should check out the latest cover story, “Letters From An Arsonist”. Here, a serial arsonist reveals some of the reasoning behind his choices of properties to burn [...]