• Archive for February, 2010

    Falling Short: Hip-Hop Parody from Dr. Niles Crane

    by  • February 5, 2010 • leisure

    This parody falls flat on its face. (h/t Gotcha Media) It’s because he is parodying the Black Eyed Peas, who are pop stars by way of hip-hop, dance and R&B music. The BEP’s music is already catchier than most and once you see it on network TV, they have already re-tooled it for a...

    Read more →

    Caffeine + Alcohol = Trouble

    by  • February 4, 2010 • leisure

    Sounds bad like a night of Red Bull and Vodkas. Perhaps it is its special caffeine-and-sweet-wine recipe, which allows overly enthusiastic consumers to be tipsy and bouncy at the same time. Perhaps it is its array of snappy nicknames, including “Wreck the Hoose Juice” — hoose being a Scottish pronunciation of house — or...

    Read more →

    Some people in GWB’s White House wanted us in 3 wars

    by  • February 4, 2010 • politics & money

    Unbelievable. President George W. Bush and his senior aides considered — and rejected — a military response to Russia’s 2008 invasion of Georgia, according to a new history of the conflict and interviews with former officials in the Bush administration. With desperate Georgians begging for American help in closing down the key route through...

    Read more →

    Democrats and Deficits

    by  • February 3, 2010 • politics & money

    This is an all too cynical and dangerous approach to governance. The second problem is that, even if Democrats could reduce the deficit on their own and somehow could be insulated from the political harm, they have no incentive to do it. Why should they, when the Republicans don’t share the goal? I strongly...

    Read more →

    Baucus cannot be trusted and neither can Reid

    by  • February 3, 2010 • politics & money

    Sens. Byron Dorgan of North Dakota and Dick Durbin of Illinois have been working intensely on a jobs bill for more than a month, talking with relevant committee leaders and other members and dispatching aides to dozens of other meetings in the hopes of crafting a bill that could get through the Senate quickly....

    Read more →

    Classless Mel Gibson

    by  • February 3, 2010 • leisure

    “I think I’ve done all the necessary mea culpas” – Mel Gibson to WGNTV reporter while promoting his new movie before he curtly ends the interview and calls the reporter an asshole. What pushed Gibson over the edge? The entertainment reporter had the unmitigated gall to ask if Gibson was worried that audiences may perceive him...

    Read more →