Last week, I was on vacation in the Great State of Maine, where cell phone coverage is spotty, internet is mostly dialup, and the governor boasts the brightest intellect of the Precambrian era. Which means I was unable to chime in on the Google/Fox News debate. But I think this Saturday Night Live spoof of […]
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Real Life Is Boring
Killer Elite: Starring Jason Statham AND Clive Owen’s Mustache!
Killer Elite: Not the operatic Owen-vs.-Statham-vs.-Owen’s-moustache action thriller you’ve been waiting for.
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Bachmann Continues Her Brave Fight Against Vaccination
Michele Bachmann commits another crime against video in this washed-out statement that was apparently recorded on a RAZR in a busy airplane hangar. In it, she stands her anti-vaccination ground, and tries to coin the phrase “Perrycare.” Everybody dig the crazy-eyed vacuum: Bachmann is starting to make Sarah Palin look like Abraham Lincoln.
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Barry Manilow Is a Big Fan of Ron Paul
Today in celebrity endorsements: Grammy award-winning musician Barry Manilow told The Daily Caller that he agrees with “just about everything” 2012 Republican presidential candidate Rep. Ron Paul says, calling him a “solid” contender for the highest office in the land. “I like him. I like what he says, I do. I like what he says. […]
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Newt Gingrich Wins!
Newt Gingrich has hopped in front of Michele Bachmann for a blistering-hot fourth place showing in a new Public Policy Poll, according to Republican election blog The Primary Event: Full results from the poll: Rick Perry (31 percent), Mitt Romney (18 percent), Ron Paul (11 percent), Gingrich (10 percent), Bachmann (9 percent), Herman Cain (8 […]
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Why Does Anyone Listen to James Carville?
Here’s histrionic piece of shit James Carville on CNN today: People often ask me what advice I would give the White House about various things. Today I was mulling over election results from New York and Nevada while thinking about that very question. What should the White House do now? One word came to mind: […]
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Funny/Sad Borders Photo of the Week
Thomas Jefferson has never been so unintentionally funny.
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Microsoft Unveils Windows 8: What Do You Think?
So Microsoft showed off Windows 8 for the first time today. It’s supposed to be one unifying OS for phones, tablets, and desktops. This Is My Next has the best explanation of how it works, but Gizmodo’s description is pretty good, and they posted a nice video of what it’s like to flip through a […]
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Teabagger Debate Roundup
Mitt Romney is still sailing along, looking presidential. He got a couple great shots in on Rick Perry without seeming like a creep. Rick Perry wants to smash Mitt Romney’s sneering face in with his best pair of baby-otter-skin cowboy boots. He does not take direct criticism well, and he got nothing but direct criticism […]
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Amazon to Launch Subscription E-Book Model?
This rumor erupted over the weekend: Amazon is reportedly in talks with publishers to turn a selection of Kindle books into a Netflix-like content library as an added bonus for Amazon Prime customers. Under the rumored plan, Prime members would get to read a limited number of books for free every month from a library […]
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Hooters Vampire Attack Too Depressing to Think About
MSNBC delivers what might be the most fucked-up news to come out of Florida today: A self-proclaimed vampire attacked an elderly wheelchair-bound man outside a Florida Hooters Restaurant just before midnight on Thursday, leaving him bloodied and in need of stitches, police said. Milton Ellis, 69, had fallen asleep on the porch of the deserted […]
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Jon Stewart on Mitt Romney’s Job Creation Plan
This is really something. I read Mitt Romney’s job creation plan, but I didn’t watch it. It looks like a disaster! Jon Stewart has been getting on my nerves lately—his centrist, fuck-the-media schtick feels like, well, a schtick to me—but this is classic Daily Show: