4.03.2009

Drag Me To Hell trailer: do NOT watch late at night

Oh this looks good.

And by good I mean that I think I have brown flecks in my shorts right now.

4.02.2009

It's not a golf shot, it's a seige weapon

(Yahoo! Sports)
The bonus 19th hole at the brand-new golf course at the Legends Golf & Safari Resort in South Africa is a par 3 -- a par 3 whose tee is atop a cliff on Hanglip Mountain, more than 1,400 feet above a green carved like the continent of Africa. You've got to take a helicopter to get to the tee box, and from there it's more than 630 yards to the pin. Once you tee off, it takes nearly 30 seconds for the ball to hit the ground.

Man, you'd need a shovel to repair the ball marks left if you hit the green from that high up. It'd be like a grenade! Plus, you'd better make darn sure the group ahead of you has cleared the green. I don't think yelling "fore" would be enough to prepare somebody for a golf ball dropping from a quarter-mile up.

Video of Padraig Harrington and Raphael Jacquelin (designer of the hole) playing the monster

Bruno red-band trailer out

4.01.2009

Colbert eviscerates Glenn Beck

(Huff Post)
Stephen Colbert ripped apart Fox News host (and New York Times cover boy) Glenn Beck Tuesday night, mocking his 9-12 project, meant to conjure the spirit of compassion and camaraderie Americans felt on September 12, 2001.

"We weren't told how to behave that day after 9/11, we just knew," Beck says to describe the project. "It was right, it was the opposite of what we feel today. Are you ready to be the person you were that day after 9/11, on 9/12?"

"Ready!" Colbert shouted, decked out in a gas mask, holding a gun, and wearing adult diapers.

Colbert then used a classic "Daily Show," exposing the hypocrisy of Beck's 9-12 project by highlighting comments he made on September 9, 2005.

"This is horrible to say, and I wonder if I'm alone in this," Beck said on his radio program that day, "you know it took me about a year to start hating the 9/11 victims' families? I don't hate all of them. I hate probably about 10 of them. But when I see a 9-11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh, shut up!' I'm so sick of them because they're always complaining. And we did our best for them."

"The 9-12 project is not for families directly affected by 9/11, just people building their careers on it," Colbert said.

Colbert went on to mock Beck's now infamous tendency to cry, and to launch his own "democratic experiment, the 10-31 project."

"It will be scare and balanced!" he joked.

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3.29.2009

Pearl Jam: because you should

Faithful


Red Mosquito


Breath (Camden '03 - I was there)


Hail, Hail (same Camden show)

Christian-owned conservative website calls Michelle Obama a bitch, suggests Oprah fetch mint juleps

Burt Prelutsky writes a column for Townhall.com, the popular website owned by a Christian radio network and the Internet home of culture warriors Dennis Prager, Bill Bennett and Michael Medved.

Here's some of his latest:
Take Michelle Obama...please. Every time I turn around, there she is on a magazine cover. Now, normally, like the Mafia, I lay off the spouses, but inasmuch as this particular spouse attended the same racist church as her hubby for 20 years, I'll make an exception in her case. After all, in spite of the fact that affirmative action got her an Ivy League degree and a $7,000-a-week salary and, moreover, has sent billions of dollars for no particularly good reason to Africa, she insists this is a mean country. The burning question in my circle is: if the First Family gets a female dog, will she be the First Bitch or will she have to settle for second place?
Or:
Naturally, the left-wing media is now trying to convince us that this James Brown-look-alike has all the allure, glamour and fashion sense of Jackie Kennedy.
Or:
If we were a racist society, Oprah Winfrey, your fairy godmother, certainly wouldn't be a billionaire; she'd be fetching someone's mint julep. And Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice wouldn't grow up to be secretaries of state; they'd be sweeping out the stables. And Will Smith and Denzel Washington wouldn't be movie stars; they'd be in the fields picking cotton.
Sound off here.

So why didn't the right embrace Krugman when he went after Bush?

I like Paul Krugman, and I think it's a good thing to have a national discussion about the economic crisis, the bailout, cleanup of toxic assets and the range of our problems.

I respect the hell out of Paul Krugman and when he criticizes Obama and challenges Tim Geithner, I want to know why.

My question is, why wasn't Newsweek putting him on the cover when he went after Bush for 8 years, which a lefty like Krugman certainly did with regularity? Why weren't the wingnuts bending over backwards to embrace Krugman when he ripped the Bush White House for mismanaging us into this mess? As Bob Cesca correctly points out, this is all about ratcheting up the drama.

Brick Tamland and the GOP analysis of America's financial crisis

It appears that our man Brick Tamland (Steve Carrell in Anchorman) is actually a GOP member of Congress. Here is his analysis of the financial problem and his solution to it.



And here's a link to the Best of Brick