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So, that brilliant SNL skit with Tina Fey as Sarah Palin is sexist according to the McCain campaign. Seriously, that's what their spokesperson Carly Fiorina is saying on all the cable talk shows currently ( Read more... )

I decided to put my belief that the writer/director of a movie is a better indicator of quality than the actors to the test. Southland Tales, a movie starring 'The Rock' and Justin Timberlake, is not the sort of movie that I would normally consider renting. Still, after discovering that it was written and directed by Richard Kelly who wrote and ( Read more... )

Jon Stewart once more manages to cut directly through the bullshit. The only unfortunate thing is that none of this blowhards will ever be called to account for their hypocracy since they all exist within an echo chamber of pro-right wing news outlets.

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In other news I think that the attacks by the GOP on Obama's time as a community organizer did ( Read more... )

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Watching the closing ceremonies in Beijing and I'm quite impressed with the pagentry and elaborate extravagance of the opening and closing ceremonies. This is clearly a coming out for the Chinese regime, where they announce themselves to the world in grand fashion. I can only think of one other Olympics that was anything like it ( Read more... )

Last night I was watching this show on the Discovery channel called 'Destroyed in Seconds'. It was a stupid show, but all we have is basic cable and I couldn't sleep. About halfway through the show there was a segment that almost perfectly summed up the war in Iraq for me ( Read more... )

It's always AFTER the baby shower that you start seeing the stuff you should have asked for. Click through to read the whole article, funny as HELL!


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Our son has decided that the outside world is a big scary place, and he'd rather stay put. Melissa's labor never made it past the early stages and now it's stopped entirely. Tomorrow we go in for some testing and decisions will be made regarding the timings of inductions. At the moment they have scheduled her induction for Saturday, but Melissa ( Read more... )