Archive | June 2011
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Now playing in my personal Hell
A Christian Jim Carrey impersonator. Ack! “You’re not making Christianity any better you’re just making comedy worse.” HRH (slightly paraphrased) (via Christian Nightmares)
Grifters never change (cont’d)
First came the kickbacks. Now, the patronage. Gov. Nathan Deal’s choice to be the state’s mental health ombudsman is dating the governor’s chief spokesman and was chosen without following procedures outlined in state law, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned. Deal named Corinna Magelund to the position earlier this month at a salary $25,000 above what her [...]
Shirley Franklin hates the media (cont’d)
According to a colleague, Atlanta’s former mayor was on the radio this morning blaming the media for the resignation of the city’s scandal-plagued schools superintendent, Beverly Hall. Franklin and Hall have a lot in common. Their tenures as mayor and superintendent, respectively, started strong but ended poorly. It’s the media’s fault.
Kucinich the shameless stooge
There’s no rationalizing the Ohio congressman’s spirited defense of dictator Bashar al-Assad who, according to Kucinich, is “highly loved and appreciated by the Syrians.” Nearly 1,000 Syrians killed by al-Assad’s thugs in a little more than two months of opposition protests beg to differ.
Sarah Palin: Celebrities want to kill my children
Surprise: The drama queen plays the victim card while strolling the red carpet at the Iowa premiere of the *Palin propaganda opus. “What would make a celebrity, like you saw on screen, so hate someone that they’d seek their destruction, their death, the death of their children?” So David Letterman wants to murder Bristol, eh [...]
Achingly stupid media rehabilitation du jour
From Grantland staff writer Chris Ryan: Bay steals Hitchcock’s look We’ve got plenty of auteurs working today. We’ve got Johnnie To’s and Tarantino’s and Cholodenko’s and Refn’s. But when you walk into a dark theater on a hot summer day with a soda big enough to power a used Prius and your hands are already [...]
Junior Samples would’ve been 85 this year
The 20th Century’s most overrated figure (she actually touched poor people and once hugged someone with AIDS!) gets the 50th birthday treatment from Newsweek. It’s the UK’s most embarrassing fetish, as illustrated by Newsweek editor Tina Brown’s vacuous profile of the late princess: “Diana would have been 50 this month,” she writes. “What would she [...]
Glenn Beck in wine-soaked imbroglio
Nothing to say, really. Just wanted to use the word “imbroglio” and make fun of Glenn Beck (clip here). Will the persecution of rich, doughy conservatives ever stop?
The (allegedly) sexy schoolmarm look
Coach Palin originated it and Michele Bachmann is stealing it, claims Palin daughter Roger Clinton. I think she dresses a lot like my mom. But a lot, a lot of women have done that the last few years. I do think it’s odd, you know, seeing people with red blazers with their hair up with [...]
