Ensign Crusher! Belay that Political Speech at Once!
From Sequential Tart comes this really cool interview with Wil Wheaton, late of Star Trek: The Next Generation: Not Just a Geek, part II. Even if you don’t care about Star Trek, and his recent writing...
View ArticleYour Photo Here: Kramer is Former Mayor of Phoenix
Props to my buddy Wess for pointing me to this AZCentral story about Phoenix Arizona having no pictures whatsoever of C.J. Dyer — the city’s 15th mayor (for 5 months in 1899). So, doing what few cities...
View ArticleCheevy: Sigourney Weaver for Queen of America
Janus/Onan was right: I did indeed like the following from Miniver Cheevy: Queen.
View ArticleCNN CEO Agrees with Jon Stewart, Fires Tucker Carlson
CNN CEO Jonathon Klein didn’t go so far as to publicly call Tucker Carlson a dick, but he did describe himself as “coming down more firmly in the Jon Stewart camp” in announcing the firing of his...
View ArticleHST, R.I.P.
From CNN: Hunter S. Thompson dead at 67. The writer himself, Hoag said, will be missed. “There’s no one in the world these days who writes the truth … as he seems to, to me,” he said. “He spoke to the...
View ArticleWil Wheaton Hears Voices, Does Drugs; Millions Watch
The CSI episode in which former Starfleet Ensign Crusher played a deranged killer aired the other day, though I didn’t watch it (I’ve seen about half of one CSI episode, ever; I have a high threshold...
View ArticleTriumph Thinks the Michael Jackson Trial is Great… for Him to Poop On!
So, I guess there was some sort of trial up the road in Santa Maria that ended yesterday? At least, I noticed that at one point in the afternoon the same dumb program, in which a swarm of helicopters...
View ArticleFred Brito: Con Man
I enjoyed this article in the LA Times the other day, and feel like I’d be remiss if I didn’t link to it from Lies.com, the weblog-of-record for shameless deception: Fred’s storied career (login...
View ArticleWalken: If Nominated, Will Not Run; If Elected, Will Not Serve
Sometimes I link to things that you wouldn’t think I would, and sometimes I don’t link to things that seem like they’re right up my alley. I don’t know why that is. It’s a complex equation. For...
View ArticleMore on Cindy Sheehan and Israel
Cindy Sheehan offered some additional detail about the alleged email to Nightline in her DailyKos diary entry today: Vigils. Another thing is that the Israel thing has not died. I did not say that my...
View ArticleJack White Admits Lying about Meg
Not really news, since Jack and Meg White’s (of the White Stripes’) marriage certificate was posted on the Internet years ago, and they had never publicly responded to the allegation that they weren’t...
View ArticleWeisberg on Politicians Being Celebrities and Celebrities Being Politicians
I thought this item from Slate was fairly thought-provoking: Condi, Hillary, and … Angelina?
View ArticleTyra Bank’s (Natural) Breasts
Hm. My fixation on Plamegate and Bush’s resulting facial tics has definitely left my coverage severely imbalanced. How else to explain my having missed this story? Model Tyra Banks gets nasty rumor off...
View ArticleGeorge Clooney Is in a Tight Spot
I’m a fan of George Clooney, so I found this article interesting, if worrisome: Clooney: film injury made me suicidal.
View ArticleColbert, Backstage with Kerry
I’m still more of a Jon Stewart man, but this Josh Marshall footage of Colbert out of character with John Kerry is pretty cool.
View ArticleObama’s Identity Struggle
I found this piece in GQ on Barack Obama, following and interviewing him on the campaign trail, to be an interesting look at the presidential election grinder. As the author describes it, Obama’s...
View ArticleColbert Does Dowd
It’s just a quick funny, but very much in keeping with the lies.com spirit: Stephen Colbert writes Maureen Dowd’s column, unleashing his double-ironic conservative fury on the NY Times Op-ed. My...
View ArticleColbert Perhaps Not So Funny Afterall
This may also be in the “lighten up” category, but I have to admit that Eric Boehlert makes a point about Colbert’s fake candidacy, and the enormous media coverage it’s received. The joke is indeed on...
View ArticleDrum on Excess Certainty
Kevin Drum is a very smart dude: Listening to the Talking Heads. (Note: not the David Byrne Talking Heads.)
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Court-appearance Fashion Back in the News
Stefanie Cohen at the New York Post has an article in today’s paper about starlets in New York taking advantage of their court appearances to get photographed wearing trend-setting outfits: Haute...
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