The best comedians have kernels of truth interspersed in their routines. From the controversial (Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Lenny Bruce) to the more sedate (Bob Newhart); the best all take a look at humanity and tell us something about ourselves. That said, The Onion is and always has been hilarious. I am on their website […]

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I know some people who grew up in Arkansas, and while I always smile when they talk about the place, I must admit that I can’t get excited over the place. Many times, I can’t come up with a reason; today, I got one. An Arkansas State Senate panel rejected a bill that would allow […]

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Hurray for The Tennis Channel. The network has canceled plans to broadcast the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships because Shahar Peer, the 45th-ranked women’s player according to the World Tennis Association from Israel, was denied a visa by the United Arab Emirates. The channel’s web site posted the following notice: “Tennis Channel recognizes that this exclusion […]

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I feel for Eddie Curry. I feel for a lot of professional athletes who, too often, think with their penises than with their brains. If you live outside of Chicago, you may not have heard this story. Curry, former number one draft pick now a benchwarmer for the New York Knicks, has a 3-year-old boy […]

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There was a report yesterday on various sources (Huffington Post; Yahoo) that reported fascist, backwards asshole Rush Limbaugh slammed Republicans hoping for new President Obama to succeed, saying that they are “drinking the Kool-Aid… they’re afraid of being called racists.” Limbaugh went on, saying he was “suspicious” of Obama, Limbaugh said the facial expressions of […]

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I’m not going to write much here – the mainstream press and the bloggers are covering the all of the angles of the inauguration of the 44th President of the United States Barak Obama. But I was choked up when he took the oath of office (when I wasn’t laughing at the mix-up between Obama […]

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As you might know, I firmly believe that the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has become as insane and irrational as the worst fundamentalist religious sect. My opinion has been: if you want to be a vegetarian, so be it; make the slaughterhouses as humane as possible, but leave my […]

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