So zombies... their taste for human flesh began with Night of the Living Dead, right? What's the origin of their taste for brains specifically?

No fucking excuse. We're the wealthiest nation in the world. There's no excuse for this.

I won the prize!!! The dork prize is mine! w00t!

So I was listening to NPR today and on News and Notes, Eric Gordon spoke with Rick Santorum a little bit about homosexuality and marriage. The tired, old argument came up of a slippery slope that starts when you allow (as a government) two people of the same sex to marry: if you allow that, what's to stop people from polygamy (or polyandry), or ( Read more... )

Not a good week for the boy scouts. I mean my god!

I have a lot of respect for the members of The State as comics, or at least as funny-people. One of my favorites has always been Thomas Lennon (Jim Dangle in "Reno 911!", and monkey-torturer), but something I found out just cut him down a bit. I wanna believe there's a good reason behind it, but he and Robert Ben Garant (Officer Junior in "Reno ( Read more... )

Looks like I won't be getting Air America radio anymore. Seems they're an XM exclusive (as far as satellite radio goes anyway). That sucks, though I'll only really miss Morning Sedition and The Al Franken show. Sirius has its own left-leaning political talk station with Ed Schultz, but it isn't the same ( Read more... )

"My Doorbell," White Stripes = Way too catchy!

I can't believe we're two years into this thing and people still say the phrase "support the troops." As much as it hurts me to hear people say that like it even means anything anymore--like someone would say "NO, FUCKING DON'T!! THE TROOPS ARE BULLSHIT AND DON'T DESERVE ANY SUPPORT" even if that's what they thought, which NO ONE EFFING DOES--as ( Read more... )

For those of you who don't know about the Downing Street memo, it is a documentation of the minutes of a meeting in July of 2002, before the war in Iraq, between Tony Blair and his ministers. It was published in The Sunday Times in the UK and the British gov't has neither confirmed or denied its authenticity. It in no uncertain terms states that UK ( Read more... )