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Tuesday, February 7, 2006 02:49 PM

Actually...

Having worked behind the "scenes" there are a lot of women who work in more than just make-up and hair in the film industry. Of my experience most film crews have been about 60/40 mix of men and women.

You're even starting to see women in the all boy's club of grip/electric. Not to mention one of the major studios is run by a woman (Amy Pascal at Sony)

I don't really understand the protest. I personally see plenty of women and minorities behind the camera. Admittedly not the many female directors but almost everywhere else.

Wednesday, February 8, 2006 12:43 PM
Original article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily

Yeah, but will the games get better?

The reason I started to tune out Monday night football was the games were lacking (generally speaking) and accompanied by twenty minutes of "Are You Ready for Some FOOTBALL" music videos. As a general rule if you need entertainment for your football games your games aren't that entertaining.

It is the same reason I never watched Sunday Night Football. 95% of the time the games were terrible.

And Tony Kornheiser is an awful idea. He is the personification of the kind of guy you want to shove in a locker and forget about. I could see maybe (maybe) Keith Oberman. But, nah...

Thursday, February 9, 2006 04:11 PM
Original article: The baby industrial complex

Again, More Marxist Farce

Once rumored that Robin Williams in the 70s or early 80s said that, Cocaine is God's way of telling you you make too much money. One wonders if Infertility treatments aren't Evolutions way of telling you you make too much money.

Friday, February 10, 2006 10:30 AM
Original article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily

In Other News...

The New York Knicks were talking about trading Jaylen Rose and most of their starting line up for the cast of "Toy Story" until Isaih Thomas was informed that the cast of PIXAR isn't real...

Thomas response was to reportedly shout, "YOU'RE LYING TO ME! BUZZ IS SO REAL!" and run off into his Parents walk-in closet where he was comforted by Irving "Magic" Johnson.

Monday, February 13, 2006 02:17 PM

Right After The Shooting...

Dick Cheney and Scooter Libby drove the dying man to Quentin Tarantino's house where he loudly complained about not having a posted sign that said, "Wounded Lobbyist Storage".

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 12:57 PM
Original article: The losing generation

In the Spirit of Tyler Durden

You are not you're Credit Score, you're not your student loan payment, you are not the car you drive or the car you want to drive, you are not the $200 date with your girlfriends, you are not you're job,you're not your credit cards, you're not you're fucking Khakis.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 01:01 PM
Original article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily

Invoking South Park..

The fight between Davis and Hedrick is much like picking between a Giant Douche and a Turd Sandwich. Neither is very appealing. Oh, wait, its a proccess server knocking at my door; Shani's Mom just sued me.

Wednesday, February 22, 2006 10:14 PM
Original article: The new Amos 'n' Andy?

Hollywood Shuffle

Kind of said to see that state of "black cinema" nowadays. Shrill black women, the same dry stereotypes, the below par flimmaking. Nevermind Racist Stereotypes, just bad all the way around.

To read Tyler Perry and see his "success" makes you long for the days of John Singleton and "Do the Right Thing Era" Spike Lee, or hell even the days of "Badasssss" and "SHAFT".

Thursday, February 23, 2006 04:36 PM

Wow --

This reminds me of the old Usenet days. Day-um. How many more posts before someone invokves Nazis and Hitler in regards to leg-shaving?

Thursday, February 23, 2006 04:45 PM
Original article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily

Doping a Biathlete?

Anyone point out the whole "sport" of the Biathelon is sking and shooting? Can someone please explain how having a chubby Austrian coach shoving syringes in some poor marksman's penis improves his ability to hit a clay pigeon with a .22 rifle?

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 04:38 PM
Original article: Singles going steady

Truly Amazing...

That the human species managed to propigate itself for nye on 10,000 years without seminars, Rules, finding out what planet men and women came from, work books, radio talkshows, and Doctor Phil. How did we ever get by?

Tuesday, March 7, 2006 09:58 PM
Original article: She is JT LeRoy

To Steal Ruthlessly from South Park...

Dude, we don't care.

Monday, March 27, 2006 11:01 AM
Original article: I Like to Watch

The Doctor

And ... whatever you do, Heather, don't show the gals over at Broadsheet "Doctor Who" lest we are cursed to read a five page ambling article on Billie Piper's physique, culture perceptions of woman's hips, combined with the author's own rambling experiences with a pro-lapsed TARDIS after pregnancy.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 02:40 PM
Original article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily

Since When ...

...is being an ESPNRadio Jock (in the truest sense of the word) qualify you as a journalist? With the possible exception of Dan Patrick and Keith Olberman I find it stretching to call anyone on ESPN Radio a journalist.

ESPNRadio is nothing but wall to wall color commentary. Its a wall of sound comprised soully of Dick Vitale and John Madden and Rush Limbaugh Wish-They-Weres bellowing about Barry Bonds and why Duke will when the Final Four.

Don't get me wrongs. It is all very entertaining -- you'll find me listening on a mundane workday -- but to anyway shape or form equate Cowherd's fratboy antics to the profession of Edward R. Murrow is insulting and silly.

Let us at least try and preserve what litte integrity and crediblity that journalism has left.

Tuesday, March 28, 2006 02:49 PM

Makes You Wonder

Is this a Bush White Shake-Up, trying to head off the envitable lame duck Presidency or a quiet preempetive strike to head off something much worse we don't know about?

The whole affair strikes me as too random a political move to signal anything to the public. Not like, say, firing Donald Rumsfeld.

However Andy Card sudden bow makes sense if you look at it in terms of a cover your bare ass and duck manuever.

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 02:08 PM

Peter LaBarbera

Was Peter LaBarbera having sex or attending a Gallagher show?

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 02:27 PM

Yeah, that'll work...

While our Leftist friends are planning a "winter green revolution" between sips of lattes and messages on their Blackberrys the Christian Right is inciting riots (see Salon's current cover piece).

Hence the great dichotomy. Progressives are a bunch of pussies and conservatives are a bunch of assholes. We -- Progressives -- talk a great game about democracy and equality while someone steals an election out from under us. The Conservatives talk about deomcracy and safety as the steal an election right under our feet.

July 14th? Yeah whatever. For me remember, remember the 5th of November.

Wednesday, March 29, 2006 09:14 PM
Original article: Free Katie Holmes!

Trapped in the Uterus

Katie Holmes' Fetus, This is John Travolta, you got to come out of the womb, Oh Ma GAH!

Thursday, March 30, 2006 01:04 PM

Ash Heaps

Schlafy's place in history will be along such luminaries as George Wallace and William Rehnquist as great roadblocks to any sort of meaningful progress.

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