If there’s a sign that Simpsons has become irrelevant, it’s this.  You’d have thought it was inevitable that Fox the network and Fox the news mall-kiosk would have collided.  I guess most politicians are smart enough to know that being satirized is like being approached by a brown bear.  Just lay back quietly and it’ll [...]

I have to give Christwire credit.  Normally, when people who hate gay people open their mouths, the most trenchant remark they make approximates, “Butt sex!  Eww!”  It’s usually Godshit, because paranoia about the national character and the debilitating effects effeminacy will have on the general population fell away after WWII.
Not so much this time.  This [...]

Via Joe.My.God.

It wasn’t even a debate, structurally or otherwise.  They didn’t really talk to one another.  I like Joy Behar and always have, but I don’t know that she’s the best moderator, disingenuous with her biases–in other clips I’ve seen, she’s certainly guilty of those smug I-get-the-last-word-because-I’m-the-host asides.   (She also told Joe the Plumber that [...]

It’s still technically summer until early next week (and in SF today it’s motherfucking hot outside) so there is still ample time for a number of famous people to kick it.  Something was in the air this year, tampering with the law of averages and mowing down one well-known person after another.  You could argue [...]

I just can’t get enough of her.
Penelope at traffic school.

“I am too….That’s my eye, on the pyramid.”
Penelope at therapy.

As Nancy Pelosi.

As Suze Orman.

And of course, as the Target Lady. I can’t believe how hysterical that is–and Justin Timberlake is apparently the only human alive who can stand on his or her own against her [...]

So Sarah Palin ain’t the governor of Alaska no more.  She didn’t exactly go out guns blazing, but with another blob of verbal protoplasm.  Her style of impromptu self-interruption littered with platitudes reminds me of the way people speak when they’re being grilled by their superiors–except she talks that way with prepared notes.  Palin did [...]

Not back to the Triassic period, like the protagonist’s psychological state in J. G. Ballard’s The Drowned World (which I just read and it’s quite well overwritten).  More like back to 1983.  Lately, all I do is complain about what a mediocre president Obama is turning out to be and all the rest of that [...]

I wonder how many vials of smelling salts Jo-Ann Fabrics sold yesterday, because blogger Marcy Wheeler/emptywheel said blowjob on the teevee.  This violated everything in the book.  It ranks up there with such grave constitutional crises as Bill Clinton’s receiving one, a notable episode from back in the days when pretty much everything was comparatively [...]

Glenn Beck must not have read Jorge Luis Borges, because his new conspiracy theory alleges that “everyone is on the list [of people the government is out to get].”  That’s how dire the situation is.  First Chrysler, then 6.6 billion other people.  Everyone is going to be rounded up, stripped of their guns, and herded [...]