Posted 9:45 PM by Gene

One thing Ah-NULT had on Ralph: he appeared on Leno. (Not to say Meet the Press can't be funny too.)

My prediction: he runs. Let's see if I can go two-for-two. Only this one's much easier.

Posted 9:29 PM by Gene

Agence France-Presse, the news service famous through bad Babelfish translations, reports you-who-know is lurking as usual around northwest Pakistan, so we have one reason not to believe it.

Posted 9:24 PM by Gene

All this proves is that after having seen (and raved) thousands of movies the way to get to these two multimillionare publicists is to hit 'em on the head -- and they, like Mr. Mark, know (or think) a big payday's comin'.

I am getting sick and tired of hearing about this stunt, but the M.O. of modern public relations (and NEWS HACKERY) is TOTAL SUBJUGATION AT ANY COST.

P. S. EisnerCorp calls these bozos "renowned," perhaps thinking there might be some doubt -- especially after the conflict-of-interest stink.

Posted 8:17 PM by Gene

I'm listening to Mrs. Miller -- yes, that Mrs. Miller -- and I'm thinking, almost forty years ago, the same kind of people who are about to flagellate themselves in movie houses by the millions for their religion would have taken Mrs. Miller seriously. She probably would have plugged the movie.

On second thought, no. That's insulting the memory of a great lady.

Posted 6:54 PM by Gene

Technorati serves a useful purpose! It found me this story of another ham-handed attempt by Dubya's administration at CONTROL. Of all the ways to go about trying to make TV less offensive, this is the WORST, because you're picking on people with a disability -- in this case a large constituency that can speak deafeningly though it's DEAF.

Posted 6:14 PM by Gene

For once I have a GOOD THING to say about LEGENDARY WELCH: It seems the former boss of NEUTRON JACK'S GHOST has STAYED UP NIGHTS worrying about "THE LACK OF DIVERSITY IN NEWS." The LEGEND shot back: "Steve, get a life."

JOHN A. BYRNE DID.

Posted 6:07 PM by Gene

Gory action movies are okay -- so long as they're OUR KIND of gory action movies -- thus saith MR. FOCUS ON THE FAMILY.

I'm beginning to wonder if P. R. MEL'S masterpiece is a Hollywood plot to destroy the Christian movement.

Posted 6:04 PM by Gene

Thank GOD you helped elect Legacy -- and thank GOD there are editors COURAGEOUS ENOUGH to put stories like this on PAGE A17.

Posted 3:55 PM by Gene

"I have no doubt when all is said and all is done, we'll find coach Barnett to be a man of character."

Make that a man of CHARACTERS, I'd bet.

Posted 3:52 PM by Gene

Hey Mr. and MS. Times! We wouldn't expect YOUR favorite candidates to be LIKABLE.

Posted 3:49 PM by Gene

DIPPITY-DO might not be able to live down his past -- if he were a CONSERVATIVE.

And lest we forget, NewsMax is full of it too.

Posted 3:45 PM by Gene

Jail -- Ya Re-Know It!

Posted 3:42 PM by Gene

Mugabe, 80, tells of murder bid

I can believe someone would try to murder him. On the other hand, I can believe he would try to murder somebody -- by the ones or twos, or the thousands.

And that "80" isn't cause for hope either. Look at the Ayatollah Khomeini, or Fidel Castro.

Posted 3:40 PM by Gene

Media civil war over decency

I'm all for civil war -- so long as both sides lose.

Posted 3:36 PM by Gene

I've a hunch telemarketers may be trying to get around the FTC's Do Not Call list by annoying people at work, where they wouldn't think to block sales pitches. Yesterday for the second time in a week someone pestered me on the job to buy something, and after eight increasingly firm "I'm not interested"s would not stop the palaver I hung up. It's one thing on a job like mine where such nuisances merely season a not-very-busy day, but in other places the pleadings may interfere with business, and in the worst cases, keep emergency calls from getting through.

Oh, and the outfit that was trying to sell to me? The Philadelphia Inquirer. I would not want to guess how many bawdy satirical pieces Knight Ridder dishrags have run about the depredations of telemarketers. Nonetheless, as the employers of NEWS HACKS demonstrate yet again, they're not afraid to be hypocrites.

Posted 5:29 PM by Gene

52% in poll of Haitians say Aristide must stay

Who else is there?

Posted 5:26 PM by Gene

I'm surprised we haven't heard terms like COURT PACKING, UNDEMOCRATIC, EXTREMIST, etc., etc. etc. -- from NEWS HACKS.

Let's see PRESIDENT DIPPITY-DO appoint some judges.

Posted 5:17 PM by Gene

I wish IE6 would support flashing type -- as in
CONSERVATIVES
Poised to Win Disputed Iran Election

You know what I mean?

Posted 5:14 PM by Gene

Audit: Atlanta Hedged Crimes in '96 Bid

HEY WE GOT THE GAMES, DIDN'T WE?????

Posted 5:12 PM by Gene

How typical: Kinsley.com thinks it's damning hip-hop by calling it CORNY.

Hey that blase irony gag of yours is getting to be a little long in the tooth also.

Posted 5:06 PM by Gene

I guess domestic disputes now qualify as "terrorism."

Posted 5:05 PM by Gene

Greenspan noted that, in recent years, new technology has helped businesses produce more with fewer workers, while globalization has led to an increasing flow of U.S. jobs moving overseas.

This process is good for the broader economy in the long run, he said, helping to raise standards of living....

Has Al been running the Fed too long?

Posted 1:57 PM by Gene

WAAAAAAAAAH!!!!! Dey TWICKED HIM into de INTEVWIEW!!!!! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!

P. R. MEL WANTS IT BOTH WAYS. AND HE'LL GET IT FROM NEWSMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted 12:10 PM by Gene

Sen. PANDER says, "ME ME ME! I WANNA BE VEEP! I WANNA BE VEEP! PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE, MAKE ME VEEP!!!!!"

You already campaigned. YOU LOST.

Posted 8:49 AM by Gene

Extra care in CHEHRMUN engineering!

Posted 8:33 AM by Gene

Reye's syndrome: Children and teenagers should not use this medicine for chicken pox or flu symptoms before a doctor is consulted about Reye's syndrome, a rare but serious illness reported to be associated with aspirin.

Posted 6:55 AM by Gene

The difference between the faked masterpiece and the fake masterpiece is that the faked masterpiece is relatively without guile.

They do have one common attribute: an ability to part fools from their money.

Posted 5:59 PM by Gene

It may be an obvious match-up, but Johnny Cash's classic "Ring of Fire" won't be used to sell hemorrhoid-relief cream anytime soon.

Somewhere, ol' Johnny's laughing.

Posted 5:53 PM by Gene

This is FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!News, and this is a conservative activist, but when the fingers in the wind on a lower level want to reopen HISTORIC DECISIONS, something's afoot.

I don't want abortions, but I don't want judges making our law, in abortions, gay marriage or anything else. Let the people decide -- and given the wealth of scientific argument for life, they will vote against abortions of convenience.

Posted 5:48 PM by Gene

It is painfully obvious now that P. R. MEL'S MASTERWORK is nothing more than Lucas Spielberg's Private Ryan-brand castor oil aimed at righties. Let's see how audiences that normally don't go to the movies react.

Posted 5:37 PM by Gene

Even in TRIB SYNERGY CITY, where every exec is licking his chops over the airing of SLUTSVILLE despite it being unsalable without the jackhammering of corporate-partner TWXSTERS and further being heavily censored and going full bore into the teeth of a fierce regulatory gale, even THEN, a TRIB HACK admits, well, maybe it wasn't the greatest thing since the sun and the stars:

For every successful one of the scores of "Seinfeld"-esque attempts to coin phrases ("manthrax," for a toxic guy; "modelizer," for a serial dater of models), there were, seemingly, hundreds of really bad puns, back-of-Reader's-Digest material presented as clever (Carrie to Big: "If you're tired, you take a nap-a, you don't move to Napa").

For all the saving grace of Parker, who can go from pratfall to emotional devastation in a New York minute, and for all the less sparkly, more subtle talents of Nixon and Davis, there was Cattrall's Samantha. The problem was the actress' inability to truly inhabit her character, a disservice to the idea of a sexually aggressive woman; against three relatively realistic counterparts, Cattrall, with her fakey-fake voice and slapstick bedroom contortions, forever seemed to be playing a caricature rather than a person.

And every time the series seemed to welcome you by approaching some universal truth about dating (Carrie discovering she has become so jaded about love that when then-new guy Aidan won't sleep with her right away, it never enters her mind that he's being romantic), it pushed you away with its insularity, shocking even by the usual standards of New York celebrants.

This is not only a show that kept insisting - desperately, really - on the greatness of New York, it's a show that, in the trademark Woody Allen manner, stripped the city of that greatness by taking away minorities, the outer boroughs, people who consider tossing a few hundred dollars at a pair of designer shoes stupid or, worse, unaffordable. Instead we got Carrie, at the end of Season Four, season four, happily telling viewers about transvestite hookers: "Don't worry, they have a very lovely, happy life."

Of course they do. Hooking is like that.

AND SO IS NEWSPAPERING.

Posted 5:31 PM by Gene

For Europe it's oil or Jews, and guess which usually comes first.

Posted 5:26 PM by Gene

The biggest winners of state lotteries are wasteful, bloated bureaucracies. Surprise, surprise.

Posted 5:21 PM by Gene

And speaking of assaults, here's one suit the LOUDMOUTH must have KNOWN he couldn't win.

Posted 5:17 PM by Gene

Six sex assaults by a football team? Were we trying for Guinness?

Posted 5:15 PM by Gene

How many of Larry Kudlow's heroes have been convicted?

Posted 5:11 PM by Gene

This classic PRNewswire release should prove that, for all the COMMIE ORGANIZING on America's campuses, there's a lot of upscale, high-toned Babbittry too -- and one can rest assured that most of the authors of studies on inventory management and the like are probably NOT raging liberals.

P. S. These professors took money from a big company to do their study, so they're DEFINITELY NOT raging liberals.

"The global leader in distribution facilities and services," ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Sorry DAVID HOROWITZ!!!!!!!!!!!!, not EVERYTHING in ACADEME is ANGELA DAVIS.

Posted 5:06 PM by Gene

Several days ago the TRIB revealed that it views its readers as turnips to be squeezed for whatever SYNERGISTIC GAIN comes down the pike. Today its OMBUDSPOOP reveals he views its readers as bigots to be DESPISED -- and if not bigots, certainly INFERIORS to the WISE and NOBLE HACKS of NEWSDOM. (That "tolerance" should be the end-all and be-all of NEWS HACKS is a dead giveaway of the OMBUDSPOOP'S true feelings.) To be sure, media can survive without an audience; witness how long TV has. But it can't go on forever, and while the HACKS may keep their jobs for a while, they may not be PERMANENT.

Posted 4:58 PM by Gene

GOD gives up HIS throne to find ANOTHER ONE.

Look out behind you, God; I see others coming, and some make MOVIES.

Posted 4:56 PM by Gene

Iran is further along building the NUKE-ISRAEL bomb than it's let on. Surprise, surprise.

Posted 9:24 AM by Gene

The success of TWX's urban mall gives an indication why those government lunkheads must ditch THE SHARDS and start over.

Posted 8:26 AM by Gene

What matters to me is not that fifty years ago Ike "met" space aliens, what matters is that fifty years ago the AP reported Ike died of a heart attack, and it's been proudly inaccurate ever since.

Posted 8:21 AM by Gene

All right, ALL RIGHT PROF, you were RIGHT, you're ALWAYS right, it WASN'T ricin.

Yet.

Posted 8:19 AM by Gene

And we couldn't have built THE ISLAMIC BOMB without a little help from our -- friends.

Posted 8:17 AM by Gene

Sighhhhhhhhh, the tone-deaf are financing the record industry again.

Posted 6:35 AM by Gene

PROF performs another INVALUABLE public service: he discovers that NEWSMAX runs -- MISLEADING HEADLINES.

Where would we be without you, PROF?

Posted 6:26 AM by Gene

The cretinous coach of Colorado's cretinous football team has been placed of administrative leave not because he runs an anything-goes program, not because he looks the other way at possibly criminal conduct, not because he believes winning is first and ethics are last, but BECAUSE HE CRITICIZED A FEMALE PLAYER. Can you see that university's Faculty Senate? It could go on the march for Commun -- for THE COACH'S HEAD!

As I've said before, the idiots of higher learning can't see the forest of corruption for the trees of "insensitive" remarks.

Posted 5:47 PM by Gene

Looks like P. R. MEL'S DAD has THE SAME FIGHTIN' SPIRIT OF CRASS PUBLICITY as the SON!

Posted 5:42 PM by Gene

It figures: California won't honor same-sex "marriages" because of the PAPERWORK.

Score ONE for bureaucracy.

Posted 5:35 PM by Gene

Unlike Bob LaFollette or John McCain, Howard Dean....

No, NO, I must restrain myself. I'll let loose a PRIMAL SCREAM of my own if I don't control myself. No! It's impossible!

Unlike Bob LaFollette or John McCain, Howard Dean....

...went YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!

Although Johnny boy has come close on occasion. So did Bob LaFollette.

Posted 5:29 PM by Gene

AstroTurf maker files for bankruptcy

Where will we seek the fresh, clean smell of new-mown AstroTurf?

Posted 5:27 PM by Gene

If the Web is so great for political fundraising, why did PSYCHO's campaign go YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!?

Posted 5:09 PM by Gene

Ooooh, SCIENTISTS! Let's all bow at the feet of SCIENCE! "INDEPENDENT" SCIENTISTS think BUSH is EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL. INDEPENDENT LIBERAL SCIENTISTS who include the laureates of the awards whose recipients have included such distinguished humanitarians as Jimmy Carter and Henry Kissinger and YASSIR ARAFAT think our PRESIDENT is EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL. LET US ALL BOW AT THE FEET OF SCIENCE! SIEG HEIL!

OR:

COMPARING PRESIDENT BUSH WITH HIS FATHER, GEORGE H.W. BUSH AND FORMER PRESIDENT RICHARD M. NIXON, THE STATEMENT WARNED THAT HAD THESE FORMER PRESIDENTS SIMILARLY DISMISSED SCIENCE IN FAVOR OF POLITICAL ENDS, OVER 200,000 DEATHS AND MILLIONS OF RESPIRATORY AND CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE CASES WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN PREVENTED WITH THE SIGNING OF THE ORIGINAL CLEAN AIR ACT AND THE 1990 AMENDMENTS TO THAT ACT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

POLITICAL? Nah.

Posted 3:22 PM by Gene

Does Sen. Goodhair Grisham really want to go YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRGGGHHH?

Posted 3:15 PM by Gene

Great. The Orbiting Jalopy won't fly again until next year, if then.

I've said it before: junk the Jalopy and think up something else.

Posted 3:12 PM by Gene

The Assassination of Howard Dean

...was self-inflicted.

Posted 12:34 PM by Gene

Just what we need, Jeff Katzenberg on a reality show. Maybe he could start by hiring MICKEYMOUSE NIXON, pffh-hh-hh.

Posted 10:20 AM by Gene

Sri Lanka, Malaysia -- sure the project to build AN ISLAMIC BOMB is kaput?

If we MUST have a World Court, THIS is what it MUST exist for.

Posted 10:18 AM by Gene

Screw and be screwed

I must write for Playboy again bzumbzumbzumbzum....

Posted 10:11 AM by Gene

SLY STALLONE wants to do a REALITY SERIES about BOXING?!?!?

Is this guy punch-drunk?

Posted 10:05 AM by Gene

GASP! Another conservative opposes the ROBBER-BARON ROBERTSES' POWER GRAB!

What's going on here? CALLING LARRY KUDLOW! CALLING BOB SAMUELSON!!

Posted 10:00 AM by Gene

Arlen Specter would be the perfect choice for John Kerry's veep.

Ommmmmmmmmmmm, he would.

Posted 9:52 AM by Gene

PSYCHO! QUITS!!!!! YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGHH!!!!!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGHH!!!!!

Posted 6:59 AM by Gene

The National Religious Broadcasters reintroduces the V-CHIP!

It didn't work before; it won't work NOW.

Posted 6:41 AM by Gene

If Comcast can afford Disney, it can pay state, local taxes

SEZ WHO?

Posted 6:22 AM by Gene

A $41 Billion Telephone Deal, but What's in It for Consumers?

I think we know the answer: higher rates (to pay for the deal), worse service (as the "infrastructure" gets neglected and customer service moves to Madagascar) -- and a lower price for those unlucky enough to own stock in it.

Posted 6:13 AM by Gene

WOWWWWWWWWWW!! WE HAVE A HORSE RACE!!!!! ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz.

Posted 6:30 PM by Gene

There is no doubt now: movies are turning into TV programs -- and computer programs.

Posted 6:05 PM by Gene

JACK'S Alphabet Soup, the videogame biz' alphabet soup, six of one recipe....

Posted 6:00 PM by Gene

Chilean spy now says he made up story about CIA

Alas, it's too easy to make up stories about the CIA, but then the CIA counters by making up stories of its own.

Posted 5:58 PM by Gene

NEWS HACKS grow ever more obstinate:

Few Americans see caskets come home

For one thing, that's because few Americans have died in the war, MORONS.

Posted 5:39 PM by Gene

And we'll believe all this talk of "freedom stirring" in young Arabs when they finally STIR.

Posted 5:36 PM by Gene

We'll believe all this talk of revolution in Iran when they finally rebel.

Posted 5:34 PM by Gene

Can't we assume most of these bombings in Iraq are inside jobs?

Posted 5:31 PM by Gene

The states are getting $2.3 billion to "upgrade" their election technology.

With that kind of money we're talking electronic chads.

Posted 5:26 PM by Gene

And here comes ANOTHER OSAMAMOBILE!

And it's made in Meh-HEE-co, figures. Home of the soccer fans who cheered our athletes.

Posted 5:22 PM by Gene

The Osama Channel staff gets to daydream again.

"Fears are that September 11 could be repeated." You? FEAR?!?!?

Posted 5:20 PM by Gene

RCN to seek bankruptcy protection to stay in cable business

Here's another big chunk of biz the ROBBER-BARON ROBERTSES can look forward to.

Posted 5:17 PM by Gene

Surprise, the Walter Mitty who ran Phoenix' Catholic church and turned the other cheek to molesters was convicted of hit-and-run driving. Yawwwwwwwwwwwn.

Posted 5:10 PM by Gene

Great. Now the International Orbiting Rust Bucket is falling apart.

ABANDON SHIP!

Posted 5:06 PM by Gene

Eli Noam: Market failure in the media sector

Translation: You get what you pay for.

And HOWARD STERN is "most depressed" -- because his TWX shares could be worthless TOO. FAT CHANCE.

Posted 5:04 PM by Gene

Legacy's favorite TV news hack gets to run THE MESS, and while it might not improve its ratings it should help improve its bias.

Posted 1:19 PM by Gene

A Democratic president would NOT have intervened in Iraq -- but he WOULD INTERVENE IN HAITI.

WHY?!?!?

Posted 1:15 PM by Gene

GOODY! IF the ROBBER-BARON ROBERTSES withdraw their MISBEGOTTEN CABLE-RATE-INCREASING BID, this means EISNERCORP'S STOCK COLLAPSES, which means -- goodbye to MICKEYMOUSE NIXON either way!

Who wants to bet the ROBBER BARONS DROP THEIR DEAL?

Posted 6:03 PM by Gene

If one huge corporation controlled both the production and the dissemination of most of our news and entertainment, couldn't it rule the world?

BILL SAFIRE IS NOT A CONSERVATIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

How are the media covering their contraction? (I still construe the word "media" as plural in hopes that McCain will get off his duff and Bush will awaken.) Much of the coverage is "gee-whiz, which personality will be top dog, which investors will profit and which giant will go bust?"

Thank you AGAIN, KEN FELATTA.

Posted 5:59 PM by Gene

No no NO Mick, you're SUPPOSED to DRAW MICKEYMOUSE NIXON.

This came from PRAVDA's site, figures.

Posted 5:57 PM by Gene

"At some point, you'll have many voices -- and one ventriloquist."

And guess who the ventriloquist's DUMMIES are.

Posted 5:55 PM by Gene

Another Times moron -- oh why is the Times full of them, oh rare PUBLIC EDITOR? -- confirms what I've been saying since I started blogging: MOVIE-AD-BLURB COPYWRITERS BELIEVE IN THEIR HEARTS OF HEARTS THAT MOVIES ARE BETTER THAN EVER.

Posted 5:52 PM by Gene

If publishers are putting out so many new books, why can't I get published?

Posted 5:47 PM by Gene

PSYCHO'S NOT quitting, and anyone else who DARES to say he is gets a YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Enough of the governor's primal yells for today.

Posted 5:43 PM by Gene

Among the noxious gases that wafted up between the fillers of the SUPER UNBORE (that is to say, the game), one particularly toxic one sailed under everybody's radar but Tom Shales's, and of course it came from JACK'S CONSPIRACY, and unfortunately for JACK! Tom writes for the Washington Post, so now JACK'S CONSPIRACY will have to spend more money producing umpteen TV commercials rather than saving the money by making movies that wouldn't require producing umpteen commercials.

Posted 5:36 PM by Gene

Who wants to bet NEWS HACKS try to keep this story alive for days and days and days, even though this former mayor and crook has cancer?

There must be something behind it, there must ALWAYS be something behind it. Of course there was nothing behind Legacy and HIS pardons, because he was a liberal Democrat.

Posted 2:35 PM by Gene

"Paying about $40 a month for cable television, including ESPN, is the best entertainment value in America."

Who says it'll stay at $40?

Posted 2:31 PM by Gene

WAAAAAAAAAAH!! De're picking on us becauwse we wun a cablwe channel! WAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!

Posted 2:17 PM by Gene

Dey won' wet us wun da White House day-cawre centerw wike dey used to! WAAAAAAAH!!!!!

Posted 2:14 PM by Gene

It's OUR kind of gory action movie!

Pat, go back to nuking Foggy Bottom.

Posted 2:12 PM by Gene

Paul Bremer wants to keep Islamic law out of Iraq's constitution, which may be enough to rush the League of Nations in RIGHT AWAY.

Posted 2:11 PM by Gene

PSYCHO's chairman got YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGHHHHED!

Posted 2:08 PM by Gene

Halliburton does not seem to be run by the swiftest of people; happily, we can blame all its errors on its founder, DICK CHENEY.

Posted 10:06 AM by Gene

Mickey D's gets in THE DELI BUSINESS!

I don't think America's delis have reason for concern.

Posted 9:51 AM by Gene

Legacy goes Ka-CHING!!!!!!!!!!!!! and one of his many many little helpers in the press is busy laying the groundwork for America's NEXT GREATEST EX-PREZ.

Posted 9:46 AM by Gene

THE NO-SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN SPIN ZONE SPINNNNNNNNNNNNNS AGAIN!

You're making us dizzzzzzzzzzzzy, No-Spin!

Posted 4:12 PM by Gene

Frankly my dear, I don't care if we never hear of you and your fellow soft-core-pornsters again.

Posted 3:58 PM by Gene

The affirmative-action bake sale won't go away. Now it's become the affirmative-action scholarship (whites only need apply).

To their credit, college conservatives have a sense of humor -- something that CANNOT be said of college liberals.

Posted 1:31 PM by Gene

John Leo parrots DAVID HOROWITZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!' line. Clearly there's a problem in the teaching of the arts and the soft sciences (or rather the non-science sciences), where scrambled eggheads blaze with sheer intolerance, and their pernicious influence is amplified by their natural alliance with news hacks and show-biz. But one could argue the problem is less political than simply an abandonment of standards; witness the growth quackery of pop-culture studies. And to reiterate, many college students don't major in these contentious areas, they're in the hard sciences and the business and accounting departments, which I suspect aren't so politically lopsided. The fact that Republicans are in the majority must mean the influence of the scrambled lefty eggheads, however gross, is not infinite.

Posted 1:20 PM by Gene

The GLIBERAL tries the ironic-satiric approach. Glibby, I'd rather have you planted in front of that mirror, your head three times normal size and your face beet red, your brain teeming with lightning and thunder over the EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVIL of Dubya. Jonathan Swift you ain't.

Posted 1:10 PM by Gene

The GEEKS just got their Oscars®. Without the GEEKS there'd be no movies, as there'd be no character or plot or acting or writing.

Posted 1:02 PM by Gene

Kerry - Good Night, Concord! We Love You!

We love you too guys! Next stop -- 1600!!!!!

Posted 11:42 AM by Gene

You can judge a government by how well it fixes potholes, and most governments don't fix them well.

Posted 11:30 AM by Gene

You wonder if they thought of it last year.

Oh, and UK singles sales were down by a third last year. GOOD.

Posted 11:27 AM by Gene

Proof that today's "music" may not outlive its creators:

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club have been forced to cancel the remaining dates of their UK & Ireland tour after guitarist Peter Hayes broke his thumb.

P. S. He was drunk when breaking it.

Posted 11:23 AM by Gene

Is YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!'s campaign going
YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH??????????

Posted 11:20 AM by Gene

IN YOUR FACE!

TRANSLATION: This is just an action movie with Bible verses.

Ya think all those Bible Belt yahoos -- I mean, moviegoers will appreciate this?

There's something churning in P. R. MEL, and it's not pleasant.

Posted 11:13 AM by Gene

Here is why NEWS HACKS will retain a glowing nostalgia for Slick's White House until the sun burns to a black hole: he let their first cousins of SHOW-BIZ into every cranny, and since the only difference between, say, an anchorpoop and an actor is that the anchorpoop's script comes hot off the AP, he was de facto letting them in too. Bush tried evicting them to a defeaning chorus of boos, but once they esconce DIPPITY-DO they'll be back with a vengeance, bringing their cruddy old baggage too, just like the Beverly Hillbillies, and they'll never leave.