Good morning everybody. In an ultimate injustice, the Jersey Shore “kids” have not been welcome at Miami’s hottest spots. Now, your morning constitutional: Rep. Bart Stupak, mostly responsible for a compromise leading to the passage of the health care reform bill, has announced he will not be seeking re-election. Did President Bush, Vice President Cheney and Secretary Rumsfeld cover up the fact that they knew that hundreds of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay were in fact innocent? Lawrence Wilkerson, an aide to then-Secretary Colin Powell, claims that that Cheney and Rumsfeld knew that the majority of the initial...
Continue reading...There will never be an Arrested Development movie and that is fine
So, it looks like there won’t be an Arrested Development movie after all. Co-star David Cross said in an interview: I think what I will tell you, it’s not going to happen. It’s not official, but I just don’t think it’s going to happen. Way too much time it’s been (since the show ended). I mean, there’s so many people involved. Everyone’s doing their own thing, you know. And everybody’s aged. It’s just not going to happen. I’m sure I speak for everybody when I say we’d love for it to happen, we’d love to work on...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day – 8 April 2010
If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas Friedman, Gail Collins, Nicholas Kristoff, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy. Today’s is from Gail “The Colander*” Collins, in her column entitled “A Confederacy of Dunces,” in which she writes about Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell’s efforts...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – 8 April 2010
Good morning, everybody. If you lived in North Korea, you’d be hearing all about how the Dear Leader’s style is now in fashion worldwide because of his greatness. But, since you don’t, here’s your morning constitutional: President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a major nuclear arms pact this morning in Prague that will reduce the nuclear stockpiles in both countries. It still needs to be ratified by the U.S. Senate, where its future is uncertain, and the Russian Duma. The opposition group in Kyrgyzstan responsible for the recent unrest has apparently taken power, dissolved parliament,...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day – 7 April 2010
If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas Friedman, Gail Collins, Nicholas Kristoff, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy. Today’s Line of the Day comes from Thomas “Fried at last” Friedman, who writes in his column “Who’s Up for Building Bridges?” that: I’m no...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – 7 April 2010
Good morning, folks. George Lucas and Seth Green are going to make an animated comedy based on Star Wars. Now, your morning constitutional. Correction: Yesterday, we reported that the rules for Scrabble might be changing. Turns out that isn’t the case at all. A major 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra this morning, triggering two tsunamis and injuring several people. No casualties have been reported. Seventeen have been killed in anti-government protests in Kyrgyzstan as police clash with protesters in the nation’s capital. President Kurmanbek Saliyevich Bakiyev has declared a...
Continue reading...Decoy proms: Just like the good old days
Well, speaking of outrage: To avoid Constance McMillen bringing a female date to her prom, the teen was sent to a “fake prom” while the rest of her class partied at a secret location at an event organized by parents. Let’s see what led to this. Itawamba County School District in Mississippi was going to have a prom. Constance McMillen wanted to bring her girlfriend to the prom. Consequently, school cancels the prom. The ACLU sues. the court rules on the side of McMilllen, but gives the school a pass because some parents organized an alternative prom...
Continue reading...Forget sacrifice
I don’t tend to have a hard time getting outraged or upset about things. While walking around at the tea party protest a few weeks ago, one women proudly held a large poster of what I can only describe as a mangled fetus. I glanced at it, assuming it was another ridiculous “Obama=Socialist/Communist/Nazi/philatelist” sign, but it wasn’t, and I immediately had to turn away, as one more nanosecond of seeing it would cause some “projectile distress” from my stomach. I screamed “You should be ashamed of yourself!” and probably would have screamed more if Estes hadn’t had...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – 6 April 2010
Good morning, everybody. Butler only started one senior. Now, your morning constitutional: Prime Minister Gordon Brown has declared the UK general election will be on May 6, an election that may well lead to his ouster. The British National party sure is keeping it classy, that’s for sure. One hundred and fifteen Chinese coal miners were rescued Monday from a mineshaft that flooded eight days before. The Chinese announced Tuesday that five of the remaining 38 were discovered dead Tuesday morning. In a West Virginia coal mine Monday, a massive explosion left 25 coal miners dead, while...
Continue reading...Opening Day
Ah, yes, it’s Opening Day. The weather outside: delightful. The weather inside: oppressive. Regardless, baseball is started, there shan’t be more snow blizzards, and everything is back to being right with the world. In keeping with custom, President Obama took the mound today to throw out the first pitch at Nationals Park. The park, in keeping with recent custom, was already filled with more Phillies fans than those for the Nationals. Now, I can’t begrudge somebody for supporting their favorite team, even while taking part in a game between two different teams. And, I know that the...
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