The recaplet by the wonderful Miss Alli is up for the most recent episode of TAR8: Television Without Pity | Season 8 Episode 5 The race heads out of New Orleans to Panama, where for the entire first half of the episode, absolutely nothing occurs to affect anyone’s placement that is the result of anything other than pure luck. Finally, after several bunches and unbunches that have nothing to do with anyone’s performance, there is one significant decision in the form of both the Paolos (in first place) and the Gaghans (in last place) deciding it is most advantageous to…
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Candidates Who Play Anti-Gay Card … might not be doing as well in the next election cycle as they expect: Here’s a press release from Ron Grignol, the Republican challenger for a House seat in the 43rd District in southeastern Fairfax near Fort Belvoir: Del. Mark Sickles, a Democrat, “sent a mail piece deliberately misleading the voters” by showing Sickles cradling a toddler in his arms. “The problem is Mark Sickles does not have a child or a family.” Grignol notes in the release that he indeed has children, which he says helps him understand how to improve schools, while…
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The happy news just keeps coming. Are things finally starting to unravel at the White House? Are they completely dysfunctional now? Are the more principled, more reality-based members of Congress finally realizing there’s no profit in supporting a morally bankrupt White House? Couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of unprincipled lying pocket-lining bastards. First, a selection from the Washington Post’s “20 most emailed articles” for today: Bush Aides Brace For Charges Vice President For Torture Harriet Miers Withdraws Nomination In Ottawa, Rice Seeks To Temper Bitterness About Bush Policies What Rice Can’t See Grand Jury Hears Summary of Case…
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I was up reading last night around 11pm when all of a sudden, somebody started firing off Roman candles, fireworks, and maybe guns. What the? Then I realized. The Sox must have won the series. Meh – I’ll never be a Chicago sports fan.
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Okay, so Harriet Miers has resigned. And now Charles Krauthammer is going to be insufferable to his friends and enemies, because he correctly called dibs on how the White House could “gracefully” get out of the nomination Nina Totenberg called a “disaster.” Nina dished some dirt; apparently in the WH coaching sessions for Miers, they couldn’t even get her to speak up loud enough to be heard; let alone get her to answer questions in a manner that would reassure Senate Judicial committee members as to her fitness. A previous story filed by Ms. Totenberg had detailed that “she’d flunked…
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For about a week and a half we’ve been trying to make our schedules mesh with Steve and Ruth’s so we could all see Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit. I heard an interview yesterday on the BBC World Service program that WBEZ now runs at the time I have lunch… I’ve learned all kinds of odd and interesting things in the weeks since the program change, and now I’ve learned that in Portland (in Dorset, England) it’s such bad luck to say “rabbit” that advertisements and posters for the film had to be modified. Locals prefer the term…
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False alarm. That doesn’t mean this issue won’t bust out again later. In a manner of speaking, that is. We haven’t heard the last of this.
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Britain is all a-twitter with news of the parrot that died of the avian flu – there are a lot of unanswered questions, such as “was it infected before it entered the British quarantine facility, or did it pick up the virus there?” I was considering doing the obvious “dead parrot sketch” comparison, but the staff writer for MedPage Today, an otherwise serious health-news site, has done it for me. Thanks, Michael Smith! Just as a correction, though, the “shifty pet shop owner” is played by John Cleese, and the timid but plucky erstwhile parrot purchaser is played by Michael…
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The Sunday Philosophy Club : An Isabel Dalhousie MysteryBy: Alexander McCall Smith Finished this one a few days ago. I had really loved the “Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency” novels by the same author, and I hope to encounter a new favorite series with this one. That wasn’t the case, but I did enjoy meeting Isabel Dalhousie and seeing a bit of her world. She’s a very deep person who spends a lot of time thinking about things philosophical, romantic, and mysterious. Ultimately it’s an unsatisfactory read, because philosophy gets in the way of logic. In the real world, a…
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You may disagree, but the current storyline at PVP sure looks like a classic shark-jumper. In a nutshell, Brent is dreaming about a possible future, because Jade thinks she might be pregnant. I’m hoping it’ll turn out to be a false alarm, with some plotty goodness that makes it all just a scary side-issue. But it may well be the next direction for this strip, because quite often strips follow a kind of life of their own that may more or less mirror their creators’ lives. Which means that the classic dictum “write what you know” works just as well…