Computer games don’t affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music. - Marcus Brigstocke
Andy Borowitz is pretty funny sometimes. There have been riffs on the name of the new Apple device, iPad. I think this is the funniest I’ve seen. Apple Launches Text-sharing Device, the CoTex Absorbs Heavy Flow of Data, Says Jobs See the link for the rest.
John Moe, in “The Dog Who Hated Me“, hits a lot of right notes. I liked the one about the hippie. It was the movie “Hotel for Dogs” that sealed the deal. My kids had been asking for a dog for years, promising to take care of it, arguing how our family wouldn’t be complete [...]
Troy Patterson nails it with regard to Beck. The setup: The CNN tenure was most notable for a segment in which he told Rep. Keith Ellison to prove that he was not, in his Mohammedanism, a traitor to his country, “no offense.” A logician would call that a fallacious argumentum ad ignorantiam. Money line: With [...]
Cribbed from Kos: Party leader Governor Mark Sanford of South Carolina says that accepting federal money for schools is a form of child abuse. And party leader Bill O’Reilly says people who use the internet are child molesters. Just a hunch, but I bet the dedicated medical and mental health professionals who deal with actual [...]
Slate has excerpts from Dick Cheney’s forthcoming memoir The other day, as Lynne and I watched a storm approaching over the horizon, we pondered the incredible journey that has been our lives. Until that moment, I never realized how much Dubai looks like old Wyoming.
The Bottom 10 – Jack McCallum sez: SARAH PALIN Fortunately, she resisted the temptation to name her youngest son Boo-yeah Having hung the moniker of Track on her oldest son because she was a runner, the former vice presidential candidate and presumptive hope-of-the-Republican party tells Esquire that her desire to be a sportscaster was so [...]
TBogg is the shizitz: Over at PJTV, (or as Roger Simon calls it: “Daddy’s Lil Sugar Tit”) JustJoe (formerly Joe the Plumber, Joe the Middle East Journalist, and Joe The Cockheaded Conservative Handpuppet) “reports” on the stimulus bill which, like many of the things that Joe reports upon, makes him “angry”, “upset”, “disturbed” and probably [...]
I haven’t linked to Matt Taibbi’s blog before, but I have read him a lot. This quote puts ‘paid’ on my indolence. Writing about Sarah Palin’s performance at the Republican National Convention: It was like watching Gidget address the Reichstag.
First, MoDo wrote part of her column in Latin. Brad DeLong said, ixnay on the igpay atinlay, and a commenter said: Actually, it was lipstick-on-a-pig latin. Ba-dum tisch!