Grown-ups Vs. Gramps
Did anyone notice the sharp difference in tone and approach between John McCain and Barack Obama’s statements this morning on solutions for our Trillion Dollar financial crisis? You should have....
View Article40+ Debates Not Enough?
If Wednesday night’s debate left you wanting more of Obama and McCain going at each other, then tonight is your lucky night. They’ll be appearing together in New York City at The Alfred E. Smith...
View ArticleWill There Be Comedy Post-Bush?
Yes Virginia (and the rest of you States) there will, there will be Teh Funny! As some of the nation’s most successful comedy writers comiserated in the Post-Inaugalypse drought of easy POTUS...
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Tweeting @ The Gates
I’m beginning to detect a certain resistance by the new media folks to the really new media. Long form bloggers are finding that instead of merely a promotional tool, Twitter is now competing for...
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Wingnuts Practicing Their … Love … For Obama
This really is all they’ve got, isn’t it. Allahpundit tweets that a fraction of a second’s stutter while the President was delivering a speech in France today was “Comedy gold” because Obama allegedly...
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Enemy Emboldened … Check
They should be afraid. So why did the Bush administration decide to declare war on terrorism after 9/11? Partly because, as Carr documents, military overreaction is the historically most common...
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Lost Their Way, Losing Their Minds
Pam doesn’t mince any words when it comes to describing the GOP’s self-evaluation in the wake of Arlen Specter’s defection and atrocious poll numbers: “We’re F*cked.” Columnist Mark Morford is much...
View ArticleChaplin’s timeless call for the people to rise up against “the machine men,...
The Great Dictator (1940) is a comedy film written, directed, produced by, and starring Charlie Chaplin. The film is a classic “mistaken identity” story with Chaplin in a double role as the Jewish...
View ArticleKenneth Mars, 1936-2011 (VIDEO)
He may be best-remembered for his roles in several Mel Brooks films: the insane Nazi playwright Franz Liebkind in 1968’s The Producers, and the relentless Police Inspector Hans Wilhelm Fredrich Kemp in...
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