What is with people who are constantly worried that American manhood is under threat? It seems like anything that seeks to make people safer or expects people to treat others with respect and dignity and not act like a jerk, is taken as evidence of the increasing wussification and feminization of America. [Read more…]
Every year we have the same sequence of events. There will be a few days in succession when temperatures fall far below average values, combined with fairly heavy snowfall. This is what we who live in the northeast call ‘winter’. And sure enough, this will be followed by amusement among some members of the media that this conclusively proves that global warming is some gigantic hoax being perpetrated on the US by a conspiracy of scientists, liberals, and the rest of the world. [Read more…]
The Daily Show marveled at Fox News’s obsession with this topic and and had fun with Bill O’Reilly’s weird beliefs about the dangerous joint addictions of young people with marijuana and texting. [Read more…]
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart hails from New Jersey and knows something about its hardball politics. He is disappointed in governor Chris Christie’s behavior over the bridge closings, saying that it is far below the state’s extremely high standards of political retribution and vindictiveness. [Read more…]
Cartoonist Tom Tomorrow provides a good example of the form monomania takes, in this case with one particular Republican obsession.
A clever little sketch from A Bit of Fry and Laurie. [Read more…]
During these holidays, I watched quite a bit of light stuff on the internet. Being partial to British comedies, I enjoyed watching some that revisited some of the well known ones, with the writers, producers and stars talking about their early lives and how they came together on these shows. [Read more…]
One of the things I dislike about the end of the year are the endless retrospectives of the year gone by and the innumerable lists of the year’s best and worst. I skip over almost all of them. [Read more…]
The Onion’s head film critic Peter K. Rosenthal reviews It’s a Wonderful Life. He is just like me. I too hate it when people in films do something mind-bogglingly stupid just in order to drive the story along. (Language advisory) [Read more…]
Barrett Foa as Mitt Romney sings his version of the song I Believe from the show The Book of Mormon. (This performance is from October 29, 2012, just before the last presidential election.) [Read more…]