Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Just because
A preview of the Quitbull’s new (ghostwritten) book:
A random schmuck mouthing off about the state of the world.
A preview of the Quitbull’s new (ghostwritten) book:
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How is it that a comedian who hosts a fake news show is more of a journalist than the “real” journalists?
So, I had lunch with Dad today at a Chinese restaurant here in Austin. The fortune in my fortune cookie was rather appropriate in light of the Quitbull’s recent speech in Hong Kong. It read as follows:
Do not listen to vain words from empty minds.
It seems a fair number of people there were (unwittingly, perhaps) heeding that advice.
The latest masterpiece from Funny or Die:
Humor, with a purpose. Imagine that! (Bonus: Hiro Nakamura Masi Oka gets a couple of lines!)
And now comes the time on JABbering Stooge when we PARODY!
Over at The Grist, David Roberts explains why now-former Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Van Jones is not the scary bogeyman that Glenn Beck makes him out to be. The rest of the piece is a good, serious read, but I could help but laugh at this line:
A while back I lampooned a Glenn Beck segment on Van Jones, who’s an advisor to the White House Council on Environmental Quality. According to Beck, Jones is the man on the inside for a vast cryptosocialist conspiracy involving the Apollo Alliance, Color of Change, the Center for American Progress, George Soros, ACORN, Al Queda, and the Trilateral Commission. Everything that goes bump in Beck’s closet at night.
Back then I still thought the Gomer Pyle meets Father Coughlin shtick was harmless, too clownish to be taken seriously. Ah, those innocent days before the nation was locked in a room with frantic teabaggers.
Thanks, Dave. After Glenn Beck’s high-tech lynching of Van Jones, I needed some levity.
Keith gleefully mocks Glenn Beck’s General Ripper-esque paranoia about the artwork in Rockefeller Center in NYC:
Well played, sir. I bow before your comedic might.

JJ, in her own comments section, on Professional Outrage Maven Bill Donohue’s predictable reaction to a recent episode of Penn & Teller’s Bullshit.
Does Bill Dohohue have a side other than paranoid?
Alison S — “Paranoid” is his good side. “Psychotic incontinent screaming red rage” is the other side. It’s a toss-up as to which side is dominant.

Comedian Rob Paravonian ranting about Pachelbel’s Canon and Gigue in D Major at Penn State (circa 2006):
In case you were wondering, the songs referenced are as follows:
Graduation (Friends Forever) by Vitamin C
Cryin’ by Aerosmith
the folk song One Tin Soldier
Hook by Blues Traveler
Basket Case by Green Day
Push by Matchbox 20
Good by Better than Ezra
Machinehead by Bush (No, not that Bush!)
With or Without You by U2
Torn by Natalie Imbruglia
Sk8er Boi by Avril Lavigne
We’re Not Gonna Take It by Twisted Sister (used as top-of-the-hour bumper music on The Stephanie Miller Show before Obama was elected President)
Making Our Dreams Come True (Opening Theme for Laverne & Shirley)
No Woman, No Cry by Bob Marley
Let It Be by The Beatles
Or you could check Ye Olde Wikipedia.
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