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When I saw that John Ratzenberger, the actor who played Cliff Claven on Cheers, was going to appear at last weekend’s Faith and Freedom Coalition conference, I kind of chuckled. Turns out he was there to introduce Allen West and his comments were a bit…unusual. Read more

I think Patton Oswalt is one of the five funniest comics working today. He’s one of those rare comedians who has a truly unique voice. Like Louis CK, he is capable of doing something that very few comics have ever been able to do, create an entirely new special/cd/dvd every year without the quality slipping. And that’s because his act isn’t really an act, it flows from who he is and from his particular way of looking at the world. And if you don’t already love him, I suggest reading this very long essay about stealing material, heckling and rape jokes. He tells this great story about a comedian stealing material: Read more

Apparently the Virginia Republican Party doesn’t think they look quite crazy enough for nominating Ken Cuccinelli and E.W. Jackson for governor and lt. governor respectively, so they’ve now named Rev. Joe Ellison as their “Director of African-American Engagement.” Ellison is so crazy that he believes the big earthquake in Haiti a few years ago was caused by voodoo. Read more

It’s Father’s Day, so I’d like to reprint something I wrote when my father turned 70 years old. He’s about to turn 78 and he is still the best man I know. Everything good that I am came from him, though unfortunately I failed to follow his good example in far too many ways. This was originally written as a toast that I gave at his birthday party. Read more

If you haven’t seen it already, you really must watch this entire video of a woman in Florida recording herself throwing a hissy fit at a Dunkin Donuts to an incredibly calm and polite kid who graciously gives her what she wants despite her obnoxious behavior. The woman simply loses her mind, telling other customers about it and being completely oblivious to the fact that she’s making them profoundly uncomfortable and then, just for good measure, launching into a racist attack on the woman who waited on her the night before, calling her a “complete cunt sand nigger whore.” Read more