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Headline: “Nolan is 1st DFLer to take on Bachmann“ Reaction: this video. (And please note: I am not at all suggesting that Nolan Ryan should brawl with Michele Bachmann, it is just that the words “Nolan” and “take on” automatically takes my mind to this event (which is why it is a “headline reaction.” This [...]
Doug Mataconis’ Thursday posting “Herman Cain Releases Bizarre New Video Involving Apparent Goldfish Murder” got picked up on that night’s edition of The Colbert Report.
Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, thinks Armed Forces Radio should stop carrying The Rush Limbaugh Show. The Hill (“Armed Forces Chairman Levin wants Limbaugh dropped from military radio“): The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee said Wednesday that he would “love” to see controversial conservative radio host Rush [...]
Movie theater snacks are expensive. This is not cause for a lawsuit.
The New Yorker’s cover has Rick Santorum in a doghouse strapped atop Mitt Romney’s car.
Was Return Of The Jedi the best of all the Star Wars films? One writer thinks so.
Barbara Boxer takes the Daily Show’s “The Vagina Ideologues” bit out of context and deconstructs it during the Senate’s Blunt amendment debate.
A discussion in the comments thread of my “Time Running Out For GOP?” post led me to a post from four-plus years ago by frequent commenter and erstwhile blogger* Michael Reynolds titled “Money, Bombs and Jesus.”
The iconic “Homer at the Bat” episode of The Simpsons aired two decades ago. Deadspin (The Making Of “Homer At The Bat,” The Episode That Conquered Prime Time 20 Years Ago Tonight): On Feb. 20, 1992, more American homes tuned into The Simpsons than they did The Cosby Show or the Winter Olympics from Albertville, France. A foul-mouthed cartoon on [...]
As James Joyner noted last week, Stephen Colbert’s Comedy Central show abruptly shut down production last week citing unspecified ‘unforeseen circumstance.’ Today, we learn that the show will resume production tomorrow, along with a small clue as to what may have caused the halt in taping: Stephen Colbert will resume production of his late-night show [...]
An object lesson in celebrity worship from the State of New Jersey.
Cal Thomas made a tasteless joke at Rachel Maddow’s expense. He describes the lesson in civility he learned.
There’s been a lot of buzz today on Twitter about “The Colbert Report” running a re-run last night and the show suspending production for tonight’s show as well. (There are no Friday episodes, for whatever reason, of either it or “The Daily Show.”) WSJ (“Stephen Colbert Suspends Production of His Show“) fills in the details: [...]
Buzzfeed’s Matt Stopera posts some Facebook updates from people who, for some reason, could not tell Oprah Winfrey and Whitney Houston apart. This one is may favorite: I’m really not sure what to say.
Whitney Houston, once one of the biggest stars in American popular culture, has died.
Tony Manfred at Business Insider reports on some statistics from the NCAA on the likelihood that a college athlete will become a professional athlete: Even if your kid is good at sports in high school, gets a scholarship, and excels in college, there’s almost no way they are going to go pro. Scott Soshnick of [...]
For the third year in a row, the Super Bowl was the most-watched television program in history: NEW YORK—For the third consecutive year, the Super Bowl set a record as the most-watched television show in U.S. history. The Nielsen Co. said Monday that an estimated 111.3 million people watched the New York Giants beat the [...]
Was Clint Eastwood’s Chrysler ad a political message, or just a well done commercial?
The NFL and NBC probably thought that hiring a headliner for the halftime show who was born before the Super Bowl even existed would keep the controversy to a minimum, but they were wrong: The NFL and a major television network are apologizing for another Super Bowl halftime show. There was no wardrobe malfunction, nothing [...]
As long as I can remember, George Will’s response to any question about the Super Bowl on ABC’s This Week has been some variation on pointing out that baseball season is just around the corner. Given that Will has written several books on the game, and has been a regular presence at Nationals games since [...]
This week we learned that even breast cancer can become politicized. Is there anything that can’t at this point?
One wonders why any Republican politician would want to be associated with this image.
