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Friday, August 15, 2008 02:59 AM
Original article: The beast

Competitive Sports and the Olympics are abuse.

That is why they are so popular. It is a sickness. See if any other members of the great ape family do this to themselves and each other.

The bitterness, the anger, the intolerance, the being a jerk - all of the result of the most abusive aspect of this cultural madness - everyone who doesn't win is a loser.

Hertz Donut?

Sports is about as healthy as self flagellation, self-cutting, drug abuse and vomitophilia.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

I am not watching any of it.

Sports kill, cripple, maim and produce mental illness - BUT IT IS JUST A LEGAL AS INHALANTS!

Go ahead, have a huff. Pretend that is you are the one that have had their life sacrificed for a chance to win a shiny medal. Bring on the agony of defeat!

Friday, August 15, 2008 02:43 AM
Original article: Happy days are here again!

@Xrandadu Hutman

That's a tell.

She is quite amusing.

Friday, August 15, 2008 02:33 AM
Original article: "Star Wars: The Clone Wars"

grow up and go to film school.

It is a star wars cartoon and you are actually writing about it as if it were worth watching simply because Lucas has enough money to blow millions on promoting this PRODUCT for children.

Perhaps you should change your entire focus and concentrate on Saturday morning fare for kids.

Watch THX 1138 and then wonder how such a genius could have ended up making feature cartoons with dialog that makes Johnny Quest seem deep.

Thursday, August 14, 2008 08:21 PM
Original article: Happy days are here again!

Much ado about BS.

Have you ever watched a political campaign before?

In other AMAZING news, the sun will rise tomorrow.

No matter how much gold paint you apply, a gilded turd is still a turd,

Cannot you, Joan Walsh, find something other than this political excrement to write about?

Don't you have a college degree? If you do, use it.

You could write about WWE contests, as the costumes and dialogue are more colorful and less vacuous.

SMACKDOWN!

Thursday, August 14, 2008 08:11 PM

Pay no attention to the video.

Yes, we control your brain with sound, don't worry about your television set at all. Those little animations at the bottom corner of the screen and those scrolls have no effect on your brain whatsoever. No teams of behavioralists have tested people's response to specific stimulus and all those anxiety producing shows are just free speech and not mind control and all the money spent on advertising is just to inform you about a product not persuade you or manipulate your mind into buying something or believing something about a political candidate.

Now move along, go home, watch television and stop listening to music.

Those beats are evil. It's the devil's music I tells ya!

Colored flashing dots of conformity illuminate, guide and teach the minds of the future generations!

Don't change that channel folks!

Thursday, August 14, 2008 07:59 PM

Journalsim! PErsonal advice for the candidates and former candidates

Ann Landers and Miss Manners, STEP ASIDE!

You should do, BLAH BLAH BLAH.

Am I getting paid by the word or the click?

BLAH BLAH BLAH!

Thursday, August 14, 2008 12:14 PM
Original article: Johnny, I hardly knew ye

Journalsim! Go for the underwear!

John Edwards has a willy!

Shame for Shame for Shame!

Journalsim - for when a three digit IQ is aiming way too high!

Reporters misjudge candidates!

Journalsim - naughty naughty, he's been a very BAD boy!

Journalsim! SPANK SPANK SPANK!

This underwear STANKS!

JOURNALSIM!

Smell the nooze!

Wednesday, August 13, 2008 12:25 PM
Original article: "Tropic Thunder"

It has Ben Stiller and Jack Black in it.

I shall wait until it is on television and then watch only what I can bear.

Genius ain't what it used to be.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 06:47 PM

"Russian Television" on cable

Nice to here what the other side has to say. Most amusing was the complaint about CNN's footage described as devastation wrecked upon a city by the Russian military - they had the fellow who shot the footage explain that it was taken of the results of the attack on Russian peacekeepers which is what started this little war. They showed the wide shot and the context of the scene. They stole his footage and lied with it.

We know that CNN are liars, so until shown otherwise, "Russian Television" is more credible.

ZB is playing some world chess.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 06:46 PM

"Russian Televison" on cable

Nice to here what the other side has to say. Most amusing was the complaint about CNN's footage described as devastation wrecked upon a city by the Russian military - they had the fellow who shot the footage explain that it was taken of the results of the attack on Russian peacekeepers which is what started this little war. They showed the wide shot and the context of the scene. They stole his footage and lied with it.

We know that CNN are liars, so until shown otherwise, "Russian Television" is more credible.

ZB is playing some world chess.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 12:29 PM

I prefer a more scientific approach to divining the successor

Can't we have a priest of some religion remove the livers from both candidates and give us the inside scoop after some good old fashioned splanchnomancy?

I know I would feel better about the election if we could have this procedure done as soon as possible.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008 05:46 AM

blog_tourist

Zbigniew Brzezinski is Obama's foreign policy advisor. Renewing the cold war is more profitable for the war industry than this "al qaeda" nonsense. It isn't Obama's fault - it's the people and groups he is fronting for.

Monday, August 11, 2008 08:40 PM

Two words:

Zbigniew Brzezinski.

Enjoy Obama's foreign policy.

Monday, August 11, 2008 08:34 PM

Is "Fatigue" the rosicrucian word of the month?

First Obama fatigue, now blockbuster fatigue, and quite frankly I am getting tired of it.

You know, there are movies which don't get any hype that you COULD write about - that is, if you get tired of the hype.

Monday, August 11, 2008 08:28 PM
Original article: The 1960s' gayest show

O'RLY???

Godfrey Freaking Daniels!

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