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While Susan Boyle seems to be overshadowing the Tax Day Tea Parties, she also managed to out-hit "Do Re Mi" in Antwerp in the YouTube stakes. Kudos to Susan and her populist charm, but Antwerp is still more awesome. Okay, it basically rips off the T-Mobile Dance, it's still pretty freakin' hot. And gayer.

In solidarity with the Tax Day Tea Party protests, I am currently typing this while sitting on my partner's face. Seriously, though, how naive are these people? I haven't been watching cable news in a few weeks, but apparently derisive "tea-bagging" references have become part of Rachel Maddow's regular schtick (along with Ana Marie Cox - neither ( Read more... )

From Bill in Portland Maine at DailyKos:It seems odd that members of the Republican netroots, who act like they're the badassest badasses on the planet, would get so excited about organizing little tea parties. (Pinkies up, girls!) When I stage my tax revolt against the government it's gonna be a fuckin' Whiskey Rebellion!

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Glenn Beck is apparently peeved that Fox News is no longer setting national policy - at least, not as overtly as it used to. So he's doing something about it, goddammit. In what sounds like a prelude to Mussolini's March on Rome, he is attempting to organize the sort of ignorant saps who put George W Bush in office with a campaign unnervingly ( Read more... )

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In response to my comments on Watchmen, rpeate raised a number of good questions. My original post can be found here. His comment was as follows (and I'd like to thank him for his reasoned response):

First, let me thank you for this reasoned review. You like the film, but you analyse it rationally, which enables me to take you seriously and to ( Read more... )

Sean and I and a couple of friends caught Watchmen last night. If it hadn't been the last screening of the day, I would have been very tempted to have turned around, bought a second ticket, and watched it again. In my opinion, it is the best comic-book/graphic novel/pulp fiction/superhero adaptation that has ever reached the screen. Period. It ( Read more... )

Barack Obama's Faux State of the Union Address was pretty so-so. Remarkable mainly because the rhetoric seemed to appeal equally to Republicans and Democrats. But Bobby Jindal - ! Jesus.I thought the Boy Governor of Louisiana was supposed to be the GOP's Golden Boy, some sort of Conservative Savior who could walk on water even as it breached levees ( Read more... )