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Monday, March 6, 2006 12:00 AM

Oscar castrates himself

The Academy celebrates niceness, bleeps out "bitch" and pats itself on the back for good behavior. And what did they do to poor Jon Stewart?

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  • Monday, March 6, 2006 03:37 PM

    KRD: GFY

    Jon Stewart is a national treasure. He is the streamside peppermint by a mountain stream amidst the hydrogen sulphide fumes of a neo-facsict state. I don't know which montage I loved more: the Good Night Good Luck piece, or the fruitcake cowboy sequence. Genius. All those closeted republikan chafing sounded like constipated crickets.

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