EVERY SINGLE SOLITARY poll I've been able to find, on-line or off, shows a clear majority of Americans believe Imus should NOT have been fired.

Tom Reed serves a useful purpose. He - and I - feels that HH is a rather mediocre writer who understands television as a cultural phenomenon about as well as my great-great grandfather who died in 1946. Her "Polly Esther" column at good old Suck was very funny, but it would appear from both her blog and her work here that her editors were the real stars, because nothing she's written since has come even close.

It irritates both of us that such a person is held up by Salon as being some sort of "expert" on television, such that she gets her own weekly column. Having read real TV columnists - like Cleveland Amory at TV Guide years ago - both Tom and I are personally offended that this sort of dipshittery gets passed off as commentary.

So, KrazyKatt, here's a more accurate analogy:

The gay bar features ass-fucking out front, and each gay man - pitcher and catcher both - who engages in said activity is handed an envelope containing enough money so they don't have to get a real job. Tom Reed and I are the guys calling the police.

Ok, how about James Wolcott? Or Howard Kurtz?? Or the gold standard, Tom Shales at the Post? Those current enough for you?

And the notion that one cannot coherently criticize what one doesn't do (or can't do) is so junior high school. Grow up.

Ever since the Stockton, California school yard massacre. Everyone starts screaming "Gun control! BAN GUNS!!", while lawmakers lick their chops. It's sickening the way these tragedies get exploited.

..."chains on doors"?? That sounds like pre-meditation to me. Perhaps the first two victims in the dorm were intended as decoys. This is getting very intriguing...and scary.

And I would like to know how they could have missed this guy, moving across such a huge campus armed to the teeth. Somebody mentioned "two pistols", but gunning down 58 people as quickly as this guy apparently did requires a fully automatic assault rifle of some kind. I assume he walked the distance because of the two hour time difference, though I suppose he could have driven to the classroom building waited until everybody was settled into their 9am classes.

Like Bartlett and Steele over at The Philadelphia Enquirer, and the late, great Gary Webb at The San Jose Mercury News, Savage gets at the root of stories of grave national importance. I would write that I can't wait to read more from him, but then I shudder at what else he might uncover.

And one of them was a lousy .22. I've fired Glock 9mms, and I've fired my father's Browning .22. Though the Glock is indeed lethal at close range, the .22 is more or less a joke. You would have to score a direct hit on the brain or the heart to kill somone with a .22.

And Glocks have tremendous kick. Even with a lot of practice they are not effective from distances of more than 20 feet or so, unless one is a professionally trained, Dead-Eye Dick. What I don't understand is, considering how close this guy had to be when he was shooting these people, why someone didn't throw something at him and/or try and tackle him?? Why did they behave like lambs to the slaughter? I'm not blaming them - no, not at ALL. They are innocent victims and no one should have to go around all day tensed and ready for combat.

But still....I'm hoping there are more stories of heroism besides that Holocaust survivor who barred the door while his students jumped out the windows. I hope it comes out that SOMEONE tried to stop this guy, somehow.

I watch Bill Maher every Friday, and though his "New Rule" segment is often hit-and-miss it always includes at least one or two howlers. Perhaps if Video Dog would start featuring the howlers rather than the duds they wouldn't look so clueless. Besides, it would be much more fair to Maher.

Well...what about premarital sex??

Fucking choppers....

Hopkins is playing Hannibal Lecter to Gosling's Clarice Starling (right down to the mild Southern accent).

Every poll I have seen shows a clear majority feels he got burned, because he did.

I TOLD YOU SO.

I've been bitching about Video Dog almost from day one, though early on they at least seemed to be actively searching for decent videos. The amazing thing is that they actually hired someone whose job it was to spend all day surfing the web and monitoring certain TV networks to find material, and this is the result.

I have repeatedly posted here and/or e-mailed links to hilarious and creative videos on YouTube, Revver, Blip.tv, LiveVideo, iFilm and others. Except in one instance - the footage from John Cleese's eulogy of Graham Chapman - none of my suggestions have been taken up. Kerry, Heather and David are just tone deaf and without much taste.

So here we are. I agree with others here: Improve VD or get rid of it. Right now it's an embarassment...or at least should be.

"Bloom County" was funny right up to the last panel. It was that other comic strip he later created that was NEVER funny to begin with.

Several months ago Salon hired an "associate" or "assistant" for Video Dog named David Punier (sp?). But if you look on the VD masthead he's gone. Fired? Laid off?? Who knows? But with just Heather Havrilesky and Kerry Lauerman - both of whom are busy with other projects - this is what we can expect from now on. It's actually making me pine for the bad-good old days.