I was kind of happy to see (from mistermix) that Newsweek was ceasing print publication. Atrios had it right that for the last few months:
I can understand the business model that Newsweek is pursuing: trolling the internet. But they’re not actually all that good at it.
I saw a lot of people tweeting “And when the radical priest come to get me released, we’s all on the cover of Newsweek.” Made me think how much things have changed. Now a radical priest would be protesting against access to contraceptions or marriage equality (and make no mistake, that certainly makes him radical). A radical nun might get someone released, I guess.
Update. Does anyone know how I can view the SNL bit where Paul Simon plays Connie Hawkins one-on-one while “Me and Julio” plays? I could watch it all day, but I’m not adept with the Hulu and suck such.
Update. Commenter Napoleon:
Paul Simon also managed to kill Kodachrome and Joe DiMaggio as well by mentioning them in a song.
Just saying.
Mr Furious
This is long overdue. No news magazine that wants to be taken seriously or have any kind of credibility puts Tina Brown in charge and guts the brand by tying it to something called “The Daily Beast”
Count Ulster
Content isn’t the issue. It’s who gets to pocket the ad dollars. Certainly not the writers.
schrodinger's cat
Daily Beast’s days are numbered too, after all how many Huffpo clones do we need?
Mudge
Oh those Berrigans.
SFAW
I think you mean FOR access, ’cause protesting AGAINST access is the company/party line.
SFAW
@Mudge:
Phil, Dan, and Bunny?
maya
We may have lost Newsweek, but, thank the baby Jeebus, we still have our sanity.
Cervantes
I remember fondly reading a Newsweek cover story on the John Denver phenomenon, in 1975 or thereabouts.
What a lot of years ago that was.
Funny to think I aged somewhat better than Newsweek and JD did.
Brachiator
@Mr Furious:
Yeah. Thank the Deity we’ve got the Huffington Post. No, wait….
The Internet Age doomed Newsweek. Tina Brown just nudged it along.
Unfortunately, the demise of Newsweek as a print magazine will inevitably pull other periodicals down along with it. More news stands will shut down, taking jobs with them.
This creative destruction stuff is a bitch.
@Count Ulster:
Again, see Huffington Post.
People are trying to come up with new models. And you still have the odd Internet geeks who insist that everything should be free.
EdTheRed
Does Spud Webb count? (Bonus intro by Big Daddy Kane and the Biz!)
http://www.paulsimon.com/us/video/me-and-julio-down-schoolyard
Napoleon
Paul Simon also managed to kill Kodachrome and Joe DiMaggio as well by mentioning them in a song.
Just saying.
Southern Beale
OMG. This is a must-read. Mitt & Ann Romney personally gained at least $13.5 million from the auto bailout.
Mudge
@maya: They all played a mean trumpet, but Bunny was Berigan. Not sure he ever had the honorific “Father”..bet he’d have preferred it to Bunny.
Fouten
And you know they are just kicking themselves, “Why didn’t we put Jesus on the cover more?”
SatanicPanic
Sounds dirty
Southern Beale
Also, a federal appeals court just ruled DOMA is unconstitional.
BGinCHI
Remember when that Meacham dude was supposed to be the savior of Newsweek and the next intellectual giant from the journalism world?
Jon? Jon?
Good riddance. He’s perfect for a giant publisher who is also drowning in a world it can’t keep pace with.
justawriter
Internet took my Kodachrome away …
How many other S&G songs will have to come with a glossary to explain what the lyrics mean?
The radical priest line made me remember North Dakota’s own radical priest Father Sinner. (His real name!) He got arrested a few times in the 70s for protesting the nuclear missiles that buried all over the state. Last I heard he went to prison for trying to smuggle Central American refugees into Canada. The punchline is that his brother was the governor in the 80s.
RaflW
Totally OT, but wowza.
Breaking: NY Court tosses DOMA.
This spanking conclusion makes my day
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[They’re slightly wrong about same-sex marriage being unknown to history, but to mainstream history, they’re right. And They just blast the conservatrolls with snark!]
dmsilev
@Southern Beale: Isn’t this the second appeals court to find the same thing? Also, I assume this pretty much automatically gets appealed to the Supremes.
Still, nice to hear.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Southern Beale:
Curse those activist judges – except when the Republicans lose an election.
catclub
@Southern Beale: That was the most depressing read I have had in a long time. A little like all the worst parts of “The Peoples’ History of the United States.”
Culture of Truth
Nikon is still around, I believe, as is Graceland and the NJ Turnpike.
Schlemizel
FOR GAWDS SAKES STAY OFF THE 49TH STREET BRIDGE! !
its not feeling very groovy any more
peach flavored shampoo
DOMA DOA YO.
handy
@Schlemizel:
They moved it down 10 blocks?
Poopyman
@Culture of Truth: Yeah, but I think I’ll stay off bridges over troubled water for a while.
Omnes Omnibus
@Cervantes: Of course you aged better than JD and Newsweek. One is dead and the other is terminal.
eric
You libtards dont get it: this is Obama trying to silence the media so that there is no one left to stop him from declaring martial law and ordering the NAFTA Superhighway built to repay his friends in Mexico for hiding the evidence of Holder’s complicity in the cover up of the Fast and the Furious. Wolverines!!
BGinCHI
So much statistical goodness in today’s xkcd:
http://xkcd.com/
catclub
@eric: Not convincing. Martial was spelled correctly. Also, no amero’s
eric
@catclub: it is hard to spell like a moran.
schrodinger's cat
@Culture of Truth: Hell: Being stuck on NJ Turnpike in peak hour traffic. Why is it called the garden state, where are the gardens?
Villago Delenda Est
@Napoleon:
Yes, but it was a delayed killing.
When he mentioned Newsweek and Kodachrome in song, they were still going strong, and would for decades.
As for Joltin’ Joe, well, all things must pass.
BTW, he originally wanted to use Mickey Mantle, but the meter was wrong. DiMaggio fit in much better.
Villago Delenda Est
@eric:
OK, I call parody troll. Too many looney toons references in that post.
gogol's wife
@schrodinger’s cat:
But is it foggy and pouring rain at the same time? If not, you haven’t reached the lowest circle of hell on the NJTurnpike.
Rosalita
Big Dog and The Boss live on C-Span at Obama rally. Can it get any better?
SFAW
@Schlemizel:
Too late! The 49th Street Bridge is gone.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xox9BVSu7Ok&feature=related
Napoleon
@Villago Delenda Est:
I heard an interview with Paul where he mentioned that and about talking to Joe D. about the song. (I love Simon)
@Rosalita:
Thats about 10 miles from where I sit. I so whated to go to that.
handy
@SFAW:
I really resonated with that.
MikeJ
@BGinCHI: No white man who has ever been mentioned on twitter has ever won the presidency. That was the best.
I am curious about 1824 and 1876. And of course 2000 didn’t have a asterisk.
hueyplong
“You libtards dont get it: this is Obama trying to silence the media so that there is no one left to stop him from declaring martial law and ordering the NAFTA Superhighway built to repay his friends in Mexico for hiding the evidence of Holder’s complicity in the cover up of the Fast and the Furious. Wolverines!!”
This one is closer to a good parody, but someone taking care to ply his trade would have worked FEMA into the mention of martial law. And the appropriate number of exclamation points for “Wolverines” is three.
The absence of any mention of Libya nicely parallels the Romney campaign’s sudden disinclination to squawk that it’s The Worst Thing That Ever Happened To America. That’s a nice and subtle touch.
SFAW
@schrodinger’s cat:
Camden, of course.
Gus
Charles Barkley/Barnie the Dinosaur one on one is pretty good, too.
Rosalita
@Napoleon: Clinton said he’s had a lot of jobs but never imagined he’d be the warm up act for Bruce…
hueyplong
“OK, I call parody troll.”
Yes, the tell is that only we actual libtards include an invocation of “Wolverines,” always at the end.
SFAW
@handy:
Well, if they pour a million cubic feet or so of concrete on you, it’ll smooth you right out.
chopper
OT, i’m still laughing over the clinton ‘binders full of women’ pic. that has to be the absolute perfect political caption meme pic ever.
chopper
every time i think of that song i think of simon singing it on sesame street with the adorable girl ad libbing ‘dance dance dance, you can dance with me’ during the intro.
yeah, i have a 3 year old.
Ash Can
@eric:
I think I saw that you had reeled someone in on the last thread, so your efforts aren’t a total loss. I don’t think a real RW idiot would use Obama’s actual name, though. Obambi, Obummer, Nobama, Spearchucker-In-Chief, etc., yes, but not simply “Obama.”
Villago Delenda Est
@Rosalita:
I’ll bet that obscene fuck Christie is having kittens right now, his hero, The Boss, obviously endorsing the ni*CLANG*.
MikeJ
@hueyplong:
WP eats exclamation point triples.
rlrr
@MikeJ:
! ! !
mainmati
@justawriter: My favorite was the famous Cardinal Jaime Sin of the Philippines. Cardinal Sin was just such a great pun.
schrodinger's cat
@Villago Delenda Est: Speaking of kittehs, my lol made it to the front page of Lolcats one of the sites of the ICHC family. Does a happy dance.
Here it is, for anyone interested. I iz two_kittehs on ICHC
rlrr
@mainmati:
There was a cartoon that featured the characters General Specific and his aid Private Public.
Uncle Cosmo
@Napoleon:
“Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike,
They’ve all come to look for America,
All come to look for America…”
(yikes)
BGinCHI
@mainmati: Reminds me of Angel Pagan who plays for the Giants.
I love that name.
chopper
@RaflW:
which makes sense, as civil rights law should be based on fairness more than tradition. not that history doesn’t ‘color’ what is and isn’t fair, but the Brown court didn’t really rely very much on ‘history and tradition’ when chucking segregation either.
exciting! go second circuit!
R-Jud
Putting up the Kay Signal for this OT: University of Phoenix shuttering 115 locations (and Kaplan Education shutting some too).
mainmati
@Schlemizel: I think you meant the “59th Street Bridge” song, no?
PaulW
@Napoleon:
Didn’t Paul Simon also sing about America…?
OH CRAP…
PaulW
@schrodinger’s cat:
Bitch please. I made two Vladurdays!
R-Jud
@PaulW: He also wrote a Song About The Moon.
encephalopath
Paul Simon singing “Still Crazy After All these Years” in a turkey suit is my favorite.
burnspbesq
@Southern Beale:
Yeah, but I don’t like the opinion. It applies intermediate scrutiny. The First Circuit applied rational basis. This creates a circuit split on the proper standard of review, which is in invitation to the Supremes to take the cases – which, all other things being equal, I’d rather they not do.
Punchy
@Rosalita: I bet he has…
/wink
mdblanche
@Villago Delenda Est: Paul Simon also wanted to make the song about Eleanor Roosevelt. But he was behind on the new songs he was supposed to write for “The Graduate” and when Mike Nichols showed up asking where they were and what he was working on instead, Simon showed him his new song about Mrs. Roosevelt and was told that it was now about Mrs. Robinson.
@R-Jud: Good riddance to bad rubbish.
burnspbesq
@schrodinger’s cat:
Everywhere but along the Turnpike. Take a drive up Route 94 in Sussex County, or out where Maude lives. Gorgeous.
201 fa life!
Napoleon
@encephalopath:
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ck91gfTQ5Pc/TsWDKNYYoMI/AAAAAAAABHM/SUDn2Y2IDVk/s1600/PaulSimon-SNL-TurkeySuit.jpg
That still make me laugh.
PaulW
@MikeJ:
1824 was the second time the electoral college failed to select a President outright (first was 1800) thanks to four Democratic candidates (a second party was non-existent at this point as the Federalists died off and the Whigs not yet born), and the results were thrown into the House of Representatives. Jackson had a meager popular vote lead, but the third-place Henry Clay offered his electors in a trade-off which Jackson refused. When Clay sent his support to John Quincy Adams – and was later given the State cabinet post – the Jacksonians screamed Corrupt Bargain and had their platform for 1828 (which Jackson handily won).
1876 was another time the electoral college was unclear: Tilden had the majority vote but the electoral votes from three states – Florida and Oregon in particular – were tainted by charges of corruption. The House formed a special committee to clear out who really won those states… and the committee which tilted Republican 8 to 7 all voted for Hayes (R), which is why the joke about Hayes winning 8-to-7 outdates Dubya’s 5-to-4 win. As part of the bargain to prevent nationwide party riots, Hayes promised not to run again in 1880, and also ended the Grant-era Reconstruction efforts down South (essentially signalling the dawn of the Jim Crow segregation era).
Eric U.
@rlrr: of the people I met while serving, my favorite military names are Captain Kill, Major Cool, and Lieutenant Louie (i.e., Louie Louie)
amk
@Southern Beale: It’s a bone chilling read. Even the pirates would have some conscience.
RaptorFence
Don’t forget what he did to “The Capeman”
rlrr
@Eric U.:
Don’t forget Major Major Major Major
Another Halocene Human
@Southern Beale: OMG. This is a must-read. Mitt & Ann Romney personally gained at least $13.5 million from the auto bailout.
Sickening. Held a gun to GM and the USGov’s head, shut down all 25K US union jobs, got the government to take over their pension obligations?
FUCK! Why are we “exceptional Americans” TOO DAMN STUPID TO NATIONALIZE ANYTHING?
Take eminent domain on those bitches’ hides!!!
Why is this shit even legal?
Fuuuuuuuuck!
I can’t read Palast. That will end my Palast-reading for the month. Horrorshow.
SFAW
@rlrr:
You mean Caleb?
Phil Perspective
@Villago Delenda Est: Yeah .. and originally .. DiMaggio .. being DiMaggio .. was pissed about being mentioned .. until Simon personally explained to DiMaggio that it was a tribute .. and not a slight .. thereafter .. it become one of DiMaggio’s favorite songs .. especially later in DiMaggio’s life
Brachiator
OT but in the News
More here:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/10/boy-scouts-perversion-files.html
quannlace
Nah. Now that World Net Daily is getting tired of playing with it’s Birther toys, the new ‘scandal’ is Obama’s secret gay marriage.
SFAW
Re: Romney profiting from the auto bailout:
I guess I’m turning into a moran, but why is this a problem for Romney? He opposed the bailout, quite publicly. If I were Romney, and someone asked me about it, I’d respond “Look, I opposed this bailout – even though I’d stand to make a shitload of free money off it – because I believe it’s the right thing to do. Do you think I like screwing myself and Ann out of more than 10 million bucks?”
Seriously, outside of the general heartburn from Mitt getting even more money that he hadn’t earned, what’s the problem?
Regnad Kcin
And what happened w Chevy Chase’s career after that lameass trumpet fakery?
priscianusjr
@Schlemizel:
SFAW
@quannlace:
Waitaminnit – are you saying Michelle is really “Michael”? Shit. Another great-looking babe who ain’t really a babe. Maybe that explains why Neil Jordan has been at all the debates and rallies.
1badbaba3
@chopper: That were awesome. Obama’s expression says “okay, which one of you idiots said his name three times?” Or “holy crap, didn’t I tell you not to feed him after midnight?” So much awesomeness that I’m inclined to ignore my usual feelings of “meh” where BC is concerned.
Another Halocene Human
@RaflW: or cursory examination of history.
Juvenal wrote about same-sex wedding ceremonies in Rome and it’s well known that same-sex couples used Rome’s adult adoption laws to gain the same sort of property/inheritance rights that married couples had.
trollhattan
@hueyplong:
Sadly, wordpress doesn’t speak wingnuteze because it doesn’t allow triple exclamation points: !!!
Still working on the algorithm for cancelling random and all caps–which would silence 90% of wingnut trollers.
schrodinger's cat
@gogol’s wife: No it was warm and humid, peak summer weather, we were pretty miserable.
Persia
@Napoleon: Can he write a song about the Republican party next? Please?
schrodinger's cat
@PaulW: Lolcats are way more popular that Vladurdays. STN.
Another Halocene Human
@R-Jud: It’s more profitable to scam you online only.
ThresherK
@Schlemizel: Is my “Red Rubber Ball” under threat too?
Xecky Gilchrist
@BGinCHI: So much statistical goodness in today’s xkcd:
That’s beautiful. It reminds me of how in ’08 so many people were saying not to nominate a senator because senators rarely win, and then the race was between Senator McCain and Senator Obama and the people who somberly intoned that presumably sat there all looking constipated.
SFAW
“Red Rubber Ball”?!?
Sheeeee-it !Golly!Xecky Gilchrist
@ThresherK: Is my “Red Rubber Ball” under threat too?
Only if this turns into a Cyrkle Jyrk.
Davis X. Machina
Fr. John Dear SJ wants a word with you.
LongHairedWeirdo
Eh. I’d argue that the radical *priest* still comes to get one released, and that the *mainstream* priest protests things that would once have been radical for a priest to worry about. But it’s not worth arguing over. Some kid was with Julio doing something disgraceful down by the schoolyard, and something has to be done about it.
ding dong
Listening mofo Paul Ryan talking at some rally. The dumbass. Shows yet again he doesn’t know sheet about policy. Dumbass mentions dialysis uping the rates for a small biz forever if one of their employees ends up on dialysis. Dumbass should know dialysis is the one exception to people under 65 being on medicare. LBJ put it in the original law reportedly because his brother was on dialysis. Paul Ryan the fraud.
Schlemizel
@priscianusjr:
Perhaps – I’m old & forgetful. Either 49 or 59 work for me. Maybe its over troubled waters . . . best to just stay off bridges
Schlemizel
@trollhattan:
I had noticed that & was working on ways to defeat it
! ! ! ! !
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!-!-!-!
!11!1!
ETA – spaces between work so far gonna try one more
!!!
Xecky Gilchrist
@Schlemizel: best to just stay off bridges
Whoa, let’s not be hasty. Slow down, you move too fast.
Cuppa Cabana
I don’t know if someone else answered the query, but I just watched the Paul Simon SNL bit recently, via either streaming Netflix or Amazon Prime. You can Gazoogle to find the right episode–it was early (1st or 2nd season)
P.S. It doesn’t hold up (and it wasn’t that funny the first time
AA+ Bonds
Doug,
there are still radical priests getting thrown in the slammer for protesting war, the death penalty, Israel’s occupation of Palestine, etc., all such protests perfectly in line with the Church’s theology but still treated with disdain by the Republican bishops. I had dinner with one recently and he ain’t dead yet
Bex
Ann Romney’s going to use her half of the 13.5 million to put diamonds on the soles of her shoes.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Cuppa Cabana:
Season 1, episode 2. Most of the episode is music. Weird watching that one when I got the box set a few years back. Many of the early season 1 episodes are sketch-light, but this one stands out.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Cuppa Cabana:
Season 1, episode 2. Most of the episode is music. Weird watching that one when I got the box set a few years back. Many of the early season 1 episodes are sketch-light, but this one stands out.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
@Cuppa Cabana:
Season 1, episode 2. Most of the episode is music. Weird watching that one when I got the box set a few years back. Many of the early season 1 episodes are sketch-light, but this one stands out.
pluege
maybe dolts won’t get so confused now when hearing about the deadly serious concept of Newspeak and have to wonder why someone is bringing up Newsweek.
dance around in your bones
Ok, Mrs. Robinson seduction scene from The Graduate.
Also, Mrs. Robinson song from S&G.
PLASTICS!