Byt now most of you have heard the story about the librarians censoring the children;s book that features the word scrotum. If you have not, here is a link. At anyu rate, in the student newspaper today, a guest columnist had a piece titled: Librarian Censorship of Scrotum is Just Nuts Awesome!
Archives for February 2007
Congrats to Scorcese
Congrats to Martin Scorcese. It is strange to me that he is finally recognized as the Best Directror for a film that, while entertaining, was not his best work. It is not unlike the recently departed Anna Nicole Smith, who received wide acclaim for Playboy spreads, but whose genius in Skyscraper is often overlooked. Consider …
Academy Awards Open Thread
Just watched The Departed this afternoon, and one thing is for sure- there won’t be a sequel. I am really surprised that is a favorite- it really was not one of his best. Hell, it was no Goodfellas, which I still think set the standard for the modern gangster movie.
Open Thread
Because I care what you think.
Is There A Payment Plan Available?
We have to do something about skyrocketing energy costs: Perhaps his $24 billion electric bill will teach Richard Redden not to leave the heat running. Thanks to a printing error, Redden and more than 1,300 Weatherford utility customers this week received billion-dollar electric bills marked as late notices. Irving-bases DataProse, which prints customer bills for …
D’nouncing D’Souza
You would think that rightwing pundits would take exception to terrorist sympathizer* Dinesh D’Souza’s claim that he is a perfectly mainstream conservative pundit. After all, the idea that terrorists are right to hate America isn’t just edging into Ward Churchill territory. It is exactly the Churchillian sin that got these same pundits worked up into …
Spoof Magnet
Let me be clear, I think that intentionally misrepresenting somebody’s viewpoint as a form of ridicule is morally and rhetorically wrong. So please don’t take this as any sort of official encouragement. But, ye gods, are these guys begging for it. From their “about” section, which appears to be down at the moment: Tired of …