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Recommended Reading 21 May 2013 | 02:24 am
Fred Kaplan on a disturbing trend — government prosecution of reporters who are involved in the leaking of classified information. I didn’t like it when other administations did it. I don’t like when ...
Today’s Video Link 20 May 2013 | 08:01 pm
Stephen Colbert delivers the 2013 Valedictory Address at the University of Virginia. Back in 2011, I was very impressed with this speech he gave at his alma mater, Northwestern University. If you didn...
Recommended Reading 20 May 2013 | 06:42 pm
The new hysteria seems to be the assumption that if you’re a conservative or you voted for Mitt Romney and your income taxes were audited, that’s the Obama administration harrassing or intimidating yo...
Babbling Brooks 20 May 2013 | 03:22 am
Ruben Bolling, the talented cartoonist behind Tom the Dancing Bug, writes to suggest that Marc Maron’s recent podcast interview of Mel Brooks was in the ballpark of what I was talking about. I haven’t...
Set the TiVo! 20 May 2013 | 01:18 am
Just a reminder that PBS is debuting an episode of American Masters all about Mel Brooks tomorrow in most cities. I hear it’s real good. I’m not sure why but the TV Academy, which does these great ora...
Today’s Video Link 20 May 2013 | 12:15 am
Today, your Stooge Sunday brings you the sequel to last week’s Stooge Sunday. This is I’ll Never Heil Again, where once more we compare Moe Howard to Hitler. This was released July 11, 1941, a year an...
Supervising Superman 19 May 2013 | 10:03 pm
Larry Tye (Hi, Larry!) writes an interesting essay about the origins and enduring popularity of Superman. I might take issue with one thing he says in it… If [Superman] thrived in the hands of a coupl...
Yesterday’s Tweeting 19 May 2013 | 08:05 am
Would everyone in the San Fernando Valley please keep the noise down? Some of us on this side of the hills are trying to sleep. 18:20:48 Coming in 2014: The next O.J. Simpson trial…in which he claims ...
Today’s Video Link 18 May 2013 | 07:11 pm
Cole Porter’s oft-revived musical Anything Goes debuted on Broadway in 1934. Twenty years later, they did a one-hour adaptation of it on TV’s Colgate Comedy Hour with Ethel Merman, Bert Lahr and Frank...
Recommended Reading 18 May 2013 | 05:27 pm
I kinda/sorta agree but not really with Michael Kinsley: Opposing Gay Marriage in and of itself doesn’t make you a bigot or a homophobe. That said, there are opponents out there of Gay Marriage who ha...
