Thursday Afternoon: I see a story about the stray shots at the Capitol Building. Realizing that anyone who thinks they can seriously harm congress by doing a drive-by on one of the most heavily guarded buildings on the face of the Earth is not exactly a criminal mastermind, I (correctly) assess that no congressmen/women were…
Category: Thursday
Petty Issues: Capitol Shots, Tea Party (Brain)farts, Bitcoin Drops, London NFL Team Scoffs
The bad news: Shots were fired outside the U.S. Capitol building…The worse news: No Tea Party members were hit. Bitcoin was apparently used on a black-market website called The Silk Road, and since the authorities raided the site and arrested its founder it has dropped Bitcoin’s valuation nearly 20 percent. Right…uhhh…I totally understand how Bitcoin works and…
Petty Issues: “Wheel” of Misfortune, Fairweather Mayweather, Dropout Jaden, Alaska Bucks
Floyd Mayweather won another fight in a decision against a handpicked opponent most people have never heard of, and now the big question turns to who he’ll fight next. My guess? His toughest opponent yet: a new form of Gonorrhea. Wheel of Fortune recently denied a man a chance at a million dollars because he…
In Syria, Let’s Do What We Do Domestically: Nothing
Let’s not bomb Syria. Wouldn’t that be great? What if——and I know this will sound so radically crazy it will be hard to comprehend at first—–the United States did nothing in Syria? What if we didn’t take the bait every time? What if we remembered that we’ve been involved in a war for 217 out of our 237…
Petty Issues: 50 Shades In, True Blood Out, Drugs are Mixed
After months of casting hype, the 50 Shades of Grey movie finally has its two lead stars…Is it Rob Pattinson and Kristen Stewart (as E.L. James originally wanted, these books started as Twilight fan fiction, after all)? Nope…Is it Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt? Nope…Is it Chris Evans and Shailene Woodley at least?! Nope…It’s…drum roll…
Miley Shocks, Trump Swindles, and Some REALLY Don’t Want Affleck as Batman
Miley Cyrus made “news” (celebrity news) this week when she danced erratically on-stage with an understandably uncomfortable Robin Thicke while making Jim Carrey-circa-1995 faces with an enormous drunken teddy bear in the background. Somewhere, Billy Ray Cyrus is wondering why he wasn’t asked to play the teddy bear. Against all odds, Donald Trump’s online University,…
Depressing Week as Rutina Divorces, Leonard Dies, and Manning Becomes Woman
Some weeks just seem a little drearier than others, and this week certainly took the cake… 5. Bradley Manning, the whistle-blower who leaked all those documents to Wikileaks announced that he’s really a woman trapped in a man’s body, and he now wants to be called Chelsea Manning. I swear I’m not making this shit…
Live-Blogging the “Real Time” Season Finale @realtime #realtime
All year long, I’ve been struggling with a case of political fatigue. I just can’t get too excited about the same issues as last year (Republican’s blocking Obama, drone attacks, the endless debate about the economy) without the stakes of an imminent election. That’s why most of the articles this year have been geared more…
Larger Editorial: Why, Sadly, George Zimmerman is a Symbol of Our Times
By now, everyone and their brother has weighed in on the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman “incident” (or hate crime, depending on your perspective) and I wrote more than a couple articles about it all those months ago when it was just getting started. Since then, Zimmerman has been officially acquitted, the stand your ground law isn’t…
Larger Editorial: The GOP’s New War On…Overtime Pay?
One of the big issues people aren’t even aware of (it’s not entirely their fault, it’s not getting nearly enough media coverage) is the GOP’s plan to radically change the way you receive Overtime Pay. They’ve proposed a bill that would give employees a choice (and anytime they want employees to have a choice…it’s between a…
Petty Issues: Hotmail is Gone, Ice Cream Wars, and Disney Pulls Out
Angus T. Jones of Two-and-a-Half-Men infamy (although approximately no one was watching the show because they were such a fan of him…even fans of the show would probably say “Angus T. Who?”) was let go from the show and demoted to a possible recurring character instead of a series regular, most likely because he made…
Petty Issues: How Did the Other Late Night Hosts React to Leno Leaving The Tonight Show?
And now for something completely different…a run-down of how all the big late night hosts reacted to Leno leaving The Tonight Show…[In order of preference] 5. Jimmy Kimmel’s response was surprisingly not-nasty, and even a little tame… “It is a big one for the world of late-night television. As you probably heard, it was announced officially…
Petty Issues: Central African Republican, HIV Dentists, Confederate Flag Coming Down
The Central African Republican experienced a coup by rebels last week, as their president fled to Cameroon (although some reports say he didn’t stay there long and will eventually seek exile in Benin). And yet the media barely covered it. Although I can see where they might not have time to talk about it, what…