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Wednesday, October 14, 2009 09:27 AM
Original article: The St. Louis Limbaughs?

St. Louis Pilonidals

Rush could be the first NFL owner to avoid the draft!

Wednesday, October 7, 2009 12:51 PM

Maybe an ammendment is in order

Post a list and details of men being prescribed Viagra, and men who purchase various "enlarging" products, and why.

Monday, October 5, 2009 08:08 AM

"What the hell is a disco stick?"

Madonna had the only good line in the sketch.

If they could have built the bit around them mocking one another's shtick, it could have been comedy gold.

Maybe they should have used cast members.

As for seeming "so boring," I wouldn't put the blame on SNL.

Madonna and Janet Jackson beat the lip-synch/burlesque/pep- squad-as-concert-spectacle formula into the ground a few years before Britney got her implants.

Given how obviously canned Gaga's performances are, with smarter lyrics, she could be the Wierd Al Yankovic of that genre. But I think she might only be the late arriving heir apparent.

Some might be impressed when she sits at the piano for a few bars, or when a few syllables of live singing escape between gyrations. It's sad how just low the bar's fallen for eliciting the term "musical prodigy."

Actually, for either word.

Wednesday, September 30, 2009 10:11 AM

"Solution to the Obama problem"

"Unthinkable? Then think up an alternative, non-violent solution to the Obama problem. Just don't shrug and say, "We can always worry about that later."

I have one.

AMERICA- LOVE IT, OR LEAVE IT.

Turns out that slogan goes both ways.

Thursday, September 24, 2009 10:19 AM

"He's forced us to think?"

But what if, due to watching too much idiotic commentary, you aren't equipped to do so?

Did anyone else hear a jingly sound throughtout that clip?

Beck's loose screws, maybe?

Thursday, September 24, 2009 05:54 AM

Cameron's Top 50

Can Salon publish a list of Cameron's concept of the Top 50 colleges?

Perhaps if enough of us show up on a nearby campus, on 11/21, we could intercept these free books, tear out the 50 page "intro" and hand it back to the God squader.

I live near Yale. But I wouldn't be at all surprised if even George W Bush's Alma-mater met Kirk's definition of "Top."

Monday, September 21, 2009 10:42 AM

Anti-prosperity?

Buying a POS MIC bike at WalMart or Sports Authority might be anti-prosperity.

Hoping one will turn out to be reliable transportation might be foolish.

But c'mon, CEI.

Some bikes cost multiple thousands of dollars.

Monday, September 21, 2009 09:19 AM

Tune in, turn on...

... and dumb down.

The devolution is being televised.

Friday, September 18, 2009 10:33 AM

Values?

I heard her values were implants, the only crown the Lord will give her will be a veneer, because her faith is the spray-on kind.

What a wacky world, where being judged by Perez Hilton can be a springboard to iconhood in Michelle Bachmann's illusion of American.

Friday, September 18, 2009 08:19 AM

Tears vs guns

If Nancy Pelosi wasn't a Democrat she could have gotten away with making that statement with a rifle slung over her shoulder and a red, white and blue backdrop with a slogan-as-pattern, "Tears, THIS TIME."

Monday, August 31, 2009 01:13 PM

She was kind of an innovator

As near as I've been able to figure out, Whitney Houston was the first major singer to routinely keep time by tapping her last three fingers on the outside of the mic.

She should get credit for that, because now every wannabe diva and melismatic butcher does it.

She also may have come up with jaw vibrato, wherein she appears to execute vibrato on sustained notes by wagging her chin.

Both of those may have actually been suggested by a video director, to make her singing more visual, since she's not a dancer.

Aside from those two visual oddities, nothing about her registered with me. She was an is and attractive woman, but the music was a non-event.

There was the powerful voice and the substantial range, but the content and style that she deployed them for were like a slight room temperature breeze, barely noticeable, not capable of inspiring dislike.

Monday, August 31, 2009 12:41 PM

When can Malia weigh in?

What's the minimum legal age for pundits?

She's 10 or eleven now. I'm sure she has opinions. and her dad or his associates could tell her what to say, if they wanted to go the standard route.

Malia's dad was legitimately elected, plus she's soooooo cuuute.

Imagine her countering birthers and deathers and the Obama's-a-fascist-ers.

It could be cable news gold.

Thursday, August 27, 2009 12:32 PM

Dick Panels

I can see why Rush would be concerned.

On someone his age and size, for the desired benefit, doing the surgery correctly would leave him a with a stump pudgy sticking out of his collar.

Where would he stick his cigar?

Friday, August 21, 2009 10:56 AM

Hollywood "Elites" vs Fox-friendly hacks

The kind of actors and singers the right wants silenced are ones who are good at what they do.

The kind that are actually up to the challenge of portraying another person credibly, or singing something beyond trite, moon/june/spoon/mama/truck lifestyle odes.

The level of empathy and curiosity, the willingness to walk in a another's shoes required to do that well would nearly guarantee that the person doing that work would either be, or become what we call "liberal."

The modern conservative outlook is much more like that expressed by Craig T. Nelson to Glenn Beck. "I've been on food stamps and welfare, did anybody help me out?"

He played a selfish oaf of a college football coach on a sitcom. There was no onfield action on the show, so he didn't have to dig into that part of his character. The selfish oaf was natural.

Who knows what's happened to Jon Voight?

Joe Buck, Luke Martin, where are you?

Thursday, August 20, 2009 06:18 AM
Original article: The jiggle is back

Behooved

Is modern day Jell-o made from the hooves of factory livestock who spend most of their time standing ankle deep in their own antibiotic laced shit, and that of the entire herd on an industrial feedlot?

Mmmmm...

Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:59 AM

What a crazy concept

Imagine, televising journalism, and telling the viewing public right up front, that it would last an entire hour.

Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick...

RIP, Don Hewitt.

Wednesday, August 19, 2009 07:06 AM

Right on , Barney!

It's about time a senator or member of congress had the friggin' jewels to state the obvious to one of these idiots.

I wonder what the MSM will do with the fact that it took an openly gay liberal to be MAN enough to do so.

Though in defense of furniture, at least a dining room table will seem to listen.

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