I saw For Your Consideration last night, and I consider it awful. Not relatively awful, in a “Christopher Guest is off his game, but this is still better than most movies” kind of way. It’s just a bad, bad, bad, bad movie. No one involved with it should have agreed to its release. The degree [...]
Way back in May, I wrote that Pennsylvania’s Primary Election Day had been “a good day for right-wing bedwetters in my parents’ neighborhood,” thanks to child candidate Mark Harris’ victory over an incumbent Republican state representative. Not surprisingly, especially in Democrat-friendly 2006 and extra-especially in a district that has been trending Democratic for years, young [...]
There is a container of pretzel rods in the office kitchen. I eat a lot of the pretzels. When a container is empty, someone replaces it with a full one. There is also a water cooler in the office kitchen. I drink a lot of the water (on account of my taste for the pretzels). [...]
Since the Cleveland Browns rejoined the NFL in 1999 (after a three-season interruption caused by the original team’s move to Baltimore), the Pittsburgh Steelers have beaten them in 11 of 14 regular-season games and a 2002 playoff contest. Last season’s 41-0 Christmas Eve rout was particularly enjoyable. Among the highlights of the game was James [...]
How about this fucking guy. A week after Democrats picked up at least 29 seats in the House of Representatives and six in the Senate, James Carville and his big mouth have decided that the guy who oversaw the effort did a bad job. Said Carville, of Dean: “I would describe his leadership as Rumsfeldian [...]