Odishon

I tend to forget, with how much gore is permitted in R-rated films these days, how much more gory they can get when they are unrated.  Good grief. Read more »

Bad Catholic

“Bad Catholic!  Bad catholic!” scolds the Vatican, hitting Catholic politicians on the nose with a rolled-up newspaper.  “No human flesh for you!” If they’re going to be dicks about it, excommunicate the guy and deal with the fallout. But the Pope’s not going to do that. He’s just going to let Arinze grandstand, because maintaining [...] Read more »

The Coors Klan

Thursday’s New York Times misidentified GOP Senate candidate Pete Coors as a Ku Klux Klan member who murdered a black sharecropper. The Coors campaign found the error “so outrageous it’s kind of funny,” said spokeswoman Cinamon Watson. “It could have been worse,” she joked. “Pete could have been identified as John Kerry.” Lynn Bartels, Rocky [...] Read more »

The Love Song of J Alfred Crew

The Love Song of J Alfred Crew.  Note that the site goes on to explain the joke. Just a heads up, guys: The reason they’re not laughing is not that New Yorker subscribers don’t read their Eliot. It’s because the joke’s not funny. Read more »

Onion complaint

Two weeks ago, Weird Al’s parents died of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning in their home.  They had been burning a fire with the flue closed. Today I read a “joke” article in The Onion: Weird Al Honors Parents’ Memory With ‘Tears In Heaven’ Parody FALLBROOK, CA?Zany, mourning entertainer “Weird Al” Yankovic has parodied Eric Clapton’s [...] Read more »

10/17

I won ten of the 17 games of Magic I played tonight, which is cool, but of those 17 games, three were against the new deck my friend Nathan was proudly showcasing. I won all three of those games, which is not cool. I felt like a jerk — I always do when that happens. [...] Read more »

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