Day: September 17, 2005

Lascivious and funny

So, it’s a pretty well-known fact at this point that I think Veronica Mars was the best thing on TV last season. So how is it that I’m finding out only now that Kristen Bell starred in a musical version of Reefer Madness? Image 1 Image 2 Image 3 Update: The DVD of this appears to be available for pre-order.… Read more →

Narrow focus, broad focus

My favourite paragraph about post-Katrina reconstruction on the internets today comes from author John Scalzi: Bush wants to spend $200 billion to rebuild the South, which is good in theory, but I expect his administration to do a good job at the effort about as much as I expect my cat to whip up a light and tasty souffle. Word… Read more →

Can I get a little more me in the monitor?

Every time I think I’m getting whack-o paranoid, the Bushies come along and double down on the unsubtle machinations. Like Thursday night’s speech, where Bush calls for ‘more power for me, and less restrictions on me’. Well, maybe not in those words, but he did actually say: “It is now clear that a challenge on this scale requires greater federal… Read more →

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