Stephen Colbert rips into a new reality show called Stars Earn Stripes.
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For those who are suffering from Olympics withdrawal, Jason Jones anchors another games right here in the USA in the town of Hebron, Maine that is as diverse and exciting. They supposedly even have my favorite event, dressage, though Jones did not show it. [Read more…]
I know that the readers of this blog depend on me to keep them updated on Rafalca’s progress in the dressage event, an event that I had never heard of before this Olympics, but which has captured my imagination. [Read more…]
Some time ago I wrote about cereal maker General Mills coming out in support of same sex marriage. Their policy resulted in a protest demonstration in front of their corporate offices, where people were asked to empty their kitchens of all their GM foodstuffs and bring them to the protest site, where it would be collected and donated to food banks and shelters. [Read more…]
Stephen Colbert has more on the Tony Robbins fire-walking fiasco in which many people got burned while trying to show the power of mind over body. I had no idea that people pay thousands of dollars to attend his programs. These things seem to be quasi-religious in nature and it is curious the kinds of things that people put their faith in. [Read more…]
I said in the previous post that I suspected that Mitt Romney may do something splashy to give his campaign a badly needed boost and break out of being stuck behind Barack Obama in the polls. One action that he has at his disposal is his choice of running mate. [Read more…]
Update: It looks like I was premature. There are apparently more dressage rounds to go so Rafalca is still in there though unlikely to medal.]
You have to hand it to Mitt Romney. Thanks to his candidacy, people like me, who had never even heard that there was an Olympic event called dressage, now know more about it than we could have ever imagined, even to the extent of pronouncing it correctly. [Read more…]
The Olympics turns out to be mixed blessing for Mitt Romney’s candidacy. On the one hand, he touts his role in running the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City as if that were a major accomplishment and, for reasons that escape me, the media seem to take it at face value though it is not clear what running the Olympic games has got to do with one’s ability to be a good president. [Read more…]
Samantha Bee interviews the head of the organization of American Catholic nuns that has earned the ire of Papa Ratzi for their emphasis on helping the poor instead of focusing their efforts on the things the Vatican considers far more important, like upholding the church’s doctrine against contraception and abortion and same sex marriage. [Read more…]
