Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXLV
The Race Card is Maxed Out:
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Categories: Politics
I Don’t Even Get the Joke That Wasn’t
James Delingpole:
On Any Questions I apparently told a joke so offensive that it had to be censored by the BBC. I say “apparently” because I wasn’t even aware I’d told a joke, let alone one worthy of censorship, till I discovered that the BBC had cut it out of [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
When It Might Be Time to Admit It’s Not That You’re Running Out of Reality TV Ideas, It’s Just You
In Caitlin Moran’s TV column this week (see, she writes a TV column):
Over on Channel 4, and another piece of respectable documentary-making was tarted up in the stockings and suspenders of a sensational title — Amish: The World’s Squarest Teenagers. The premise was simple: before officially getting their hats nailed [...]
Categories: Entertainment
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXLIV
Wheat & Weeds – Mad Men, Season 11
Categories: Entertainment
Two Annoying Hollywood Stars Do Top Gear
Well, Cameron Diaz is annoying. Tom Cruise is weird. But mostly he’s weird because he should be so very good. But then he’s weird and that makes him weirder. But when he’s on, he’s very good. Anyway it’s nice to hear this:
The Sunday Times – Jeremy Clarkson talks cars, fighter jets and biscuits with Hollywood [...]
Categories: Sports and Leisure
Modern Music: Uniting the World Through Postmodernism
What else could unite Trekkies, the Israeli Defense Force, and the Simpsons, all on the same day (honestly, the Simpsons one is the only one I came across because I was looking at the others; the other two were purely coincidentally and nearly sequentially discovered)
And, you know, just cuz, here’s the original Ke$ha “Tik Tok”:
Honestly, [...]
Categories: Entertainment
The Outside World Is a Strange Place
Here’s an article that Target might be expanding into Canada. They have Costco and Walmart and Sears, but no Target. I just find it interesting how some stores go across the border and others don’t.
And I heard on my free-for-six-months-satellite-radio-feed-of BBC Radio 1 that they’re allowing product placements on TV shows in the UK (but [...]
Categories: Business & Media
From Star Wars to Staring Contests
Ladies and gentlemen, observe the new Cold War:
President Obama and Russian president Dmitry Medvedev at Ray’s Hell Burger in DC (click for photo)
Like the Muppets!
Categories: Politics
The Ascent of Money Does Not Leave On a High Note
We finished our Niall Ferguson documentary on a financial history of the world. I love this show but of my lord I didn’t get so much of it.
Not to ruin the ending though, but basically the US is screwed, it’ll end up in hyperinflation like Argentina or else in a world war with China, or [...]
Categories: Business & Media
We’ve Started Watching Niall Ferguson’s
The Ascent of Money: The Financial History of the World. This show is such a good idea.
This is the guy who’s run away with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, btw. And, hey, could you blame her?
Categories: History
Mary Whitehouse Back On Her Horse
Telegraph Blogs – Ed West: As Joan Bakewell now admits, Mary Whitehouse was right about a lot of things
She wasn’t right about everything, certainly, but as someone who grew up thinking of her as a bogeyman I can see she was right about some of the long-term effects of media sexualisation, and her [...]
Categories: Entertainment
South Park Caved, So It Must Be Israeli Apartheid
The Corner – Mark Steyn: You Can Feed the Crocodile…
…but sometimes he’ll still eat you first. While the initial US reports on the Times Square car bomb concentrated on the by now traditional denials that this was anything to do with terrorism and, even if it was, it was “amateurish”, the Telegraph in [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Staying Topical As Always
The Simpsons stand behind their South Park brethren:
Categories: Entertainment
South Park’s Mohammed and Bill Clinton’s Oklahoma City
NRO – Not Too ‘Hip’ and ‘Edgy’ for Censorship Don’t worry about Iran’s nuclear program, but if you meet a tea partier waving some placard about the national debt, try not to catch his eye. By Mark Steyn
Hence, Bill Clinton energetically on the stump, summoning all his elder statesman’s dignity (please, no giggling) in [...]
Categories: Entertainment
Jeremy Irons As Sebastian: SCANDAL
Telegraph – Brideshead Reunited: actors reveal how acclaimed roles nearly never happened
The two men have revealed that before filming began on the 1981 screen adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s most famous novel, each was cast for the other’s role. They both had to battle to overturn decisions by the director and [...]
Categories: Entertainment
