Damn, I just found out that Jack Wrangler died about two weeks ago - apparently of emphysema. He was 62 ( Read more... )

Charlton Heston, star of such immortal classics as Soylent Green, Airport 1975, Bowling for Columbine, and numerous somewhat less than viral NRA videos, is dead at 84.


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As is customary on MSNBC when some D-list celebrity explodes in public, Rita Cosby was wheeled out of the freezer to bemoan the loss of Anna Nicole Smith and interview a legion of experts in skank mortality, while endless loops of the late Playmate's fat ass ran in the background, preempting just about everything else. Over on CNN, Smith's "tragic ( Read more... )

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I just finished watching President Bush's Fifth Anniversary Address. I don't believe I have ever loathed another human being so much in my life. Beyond that, I cannot express my feelings about the man or his administration without resorting to a lot of profanity ( Read more... )

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy;
that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

John Kenneth Galbraith's The Affluent Society, about post-war America and the growing disparity between the public and private seector, was one of the formative books of my youth. He ( Read more... )

Today, the real seasonal holiday came and went without much note. Yeah, well ( Read more... )