'Best of TBH Politoons'
But Untrue
Strangely Believable
The president's Christmas wish list this year included world peace, an end to hunger, and a big-ass bottle of Stetson.
~Jeff Crook
Jeff Crook is the Ceci Connolly of the Left - J. Howard Tuft
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Reader Comment
Re: NetZero
hey marty,
you said "Guess we can figure out the audience NetZero is going after with Dennis Miller shilling for them."
that's exactly what my thoughts were, too. First time I saw the ad, my reaction was "bet me". Not that I'm planning on changing ISPs, but if I do, it won't be to net zero.
btw, you're getting neater weather down there than I am up here in oregon. I moved here specifically for the rain, but are we getting much rain? nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooo. sheesh.
have a happy and safe new year. thanks for all you do.
ducks
Thanks, ducks!
Whoopi can't sell diet crap, but Dennis' followers are web savy? Ack.
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
The Buzzflash Interview: Nat Hentoff Has His Eye on Our Eroding Freedoms...But Do the Rest of Us?
The problem with Bush is I don't think he's ever had much interest or education in the Constitution, let alone the first ten Amendments, the Bill of Rights. Since he has people around him who either don't know either, or don't care to know, well, that's the problem. ...unless the resistance succeeds in telling people what's going on, and gets Congress and the courts to exercise the separation of powers...we can have a generation of kids growing up into adults who will think that these kinds of restrictions are the normal course of events. And that will be very dangerous.
Ed Kilgore: Lessons Learned, Part III
What did Clinton do that Al Gore and John Kerry couldn't do on cultural issues? He did two simple things: (a) projecting a message that acknowledged the legitimacy of cultural concerns, and found common ground, as in making abortion "safe, legal and rare," and defending both gay rights and the right of states to define marriage; and (b) directly addressing concerns about cultural threats to the traditional family by advancing a limited but family-friendly agenda of proposals (derided by pundits at the time) like expanded family leave, youth curfews, school uniforms, and V-chips. And had the issue fully emerged during his presidency, there is almost zero doubt that Clinton could have found a way to support public partnerships on social projects with faith-based organizations in a way that honored religious communities' contributions without abandoning separation of church and state.
Lara Riscol: 2004: Year Of Perversion
It was a year when conservatives made sexual perversion an art form.
Annalee Newitz: Brand X
The Brand X case could change - dramatically - the cost and availability of broadband cable Internet access across the United States. It could also help government spies wiretap your online communication.
Roger Ebert: Arthur C. Clarke from Sri Lanka
The best-known Western resident of Sri Lanka is alive and well, but devastated, after the tsunami tragedy.
Top Movies of 2004 And Film Year in Review
Sarvodaya is a "well-organized, countryside relief effort, well above ethnic and other divisions, according to" Arthur C. Clarke
Creators Syndicate Columnists
Froma Harrop's Current Column
Bush Versus Jesus
Reader Comment
tomorrow's news.....
Not true yet but could be......
"Bush gives Halliburton no bid contract for US Tsunami aid"
Maybe I should start a site too? LOL
Pete
Thanks, Pete!
And Arthur Andersen could keep the books....
Purple Gene Reviews
New Orlean Jazz Band featuring Woody Allen
Purple Gene's review of the New Orlean Jazz Band featuring Woody Allen playing live at the Palacio in Barcelona, Spain on December 28th, 2004:
I remember back in August of 2001 (before the planes hit New York) that Eddy Davis and his Jazz Band featuring Woody Allen ("Annie Hall" - "Zelig" - "Manhatten") on Clarinet were playing a benefit for MUST (MUsic for Schools Today) at Yoshis' in Oakland California. But the other reason they were playing here was to promote Woodys' movie "Curse of the Jade Scorpion" - mixed reviews for the "Wood" Man back then - same for the movie - of course Woody had gotten more headlines in the tabloids for supposedly molesting his live with some of the time lover Mia Farrows' adopted son Dylan and then marrying her adopted daughter!!!!
I figured he was a talented CREEP and Mia was just WIERD (adopting 9 kids????)
Well, I fly over to Barcelona for a get away and who is following me????????? Fucking Woody Allen....and now he has his own New Orleans Jazz Band and they are playing here at the Palacio theater in the square downtown. I can't avoid this guy.....so I have to check it out....
So here's the line up.....Robert Garcia on Bass....Cinta Sayer on Piano.....Simon Wetenhal on Trumpet.....Jerry Zigmont on Trombone.....Conal Fowkes on Banjo and Woody blowing his Clarinet!!!!!!!! There's a lot of people here to se this guy....some Americans (Spaniards feel sorry for us Americans living under the Bush regime) and a lot of Europeans - it cost 35 Euros to get in (over $50 American) and what do you get????????Dixieland Jazz - I forgot that this is music I HATE......when I was in high school, I worked in a pizza parlor called the Straw Hat and on tuesday night it was banjo night....50 fuckin' banjos playing "Down by the Riverside" well.........Woody blew and the eclectic crowd crapped their pants and I left early (Like I did when he played in Oakland) and....he's a wierd dude........
Purple Gene give Woody 5 woodies out of 10 for his jazz band in Barcelona.
Purple Gene
Reader Review
Re: Rockin' Regis
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Lots of rain in the morning, but tapered off in the afternoon.
Great moment in broadcasting - during the Faux (KTTV) 10pm 'news'cast, the blonde newsbabe doing a live remote from Orange County uttered the phrase: "Streets are more safer in Fullerton."
Not that long ago she would have been laughed off the air & lucky to be working at a Radio Shack in Torrance.
Donated to French Museum
Comic Books
Spiderman, Captain America, the Incredible Hulk and Daredevil have bounded across the Atlantic in a single leap - a giant donation of almost 300,000 vintage comic books to a French museum.
Jean-Pierre Mercier, who manages the collection for France's National Center for Comic Books and Images, said he was "flabbergasted" when he learned in March that Marvel Enterprises wanted to donate the huge quantity of comic books dating back as far as the 1950s.
The museum, in the western city of Angouleme, didn't know what a superhuman task it was in for.
For the rest, Comic Books
New Year in Iraq
The Vandals
While Saddam Hussein spent a second New Year's Eve in a jail cell, a Southern California rock band known for such albums as "Hitler Bad, Vandals Good" and "Look What I Almost Stepped In" played in the heart of his former empire.
The 3rd Brigade of the Army's 1st Cavalry Division got a one-hour show by punk perennials The Vandals during a modest Friday night party in the Green Zone. The show was one of the few entertainments provided for U.S. troops in Iraq on New Year's Eve, a day marked chiefly by a relative lull in violence.
"It's pretty cool to be asked to come out and go right in the middle of it - it's like we stepped inside our television," Vandals bassist Joe Escalante, wearing a flak jacket he borrowed from the Army for the tour, said before the show.
While soldiers bounced and bobbed their heads, The Vandals reeled off favorites like "Oi to the World" and "Anarchy Burger (Hold the Government)," a ditty that earned them brief fame - and $22,000 - when it was quoted in the 2002 Vin Diesel movie "XXX."
"You rock out to the band you have, not the band you wish you had," guitarist Warren Fitzgerald said, riffing on Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld's comments to troops in Kuwait who complained the Army was not getting them enough armor.
The Vandals
Filmmakers Survive Tsunami
'Open Water'
Husband-and-wife filmmakers Chris Kentis and Laura Lau escaped being pulled into a real-life version of their shark thriller "Open Water" while vacationing in Thailand.
Kentis and Lau were among hundreds of foreign tourists on the resort island of Phuket when the tsunami that has killed more than 117,000 people struck Sunday. They recounted their story to The Associated Press on Thursday by telephone from a Singapore hotel.
The family was awakened by the initial magnitude 9.0 earthquake, and Kentis was returning to his hotel after running morning errands when he saw the huge wave headed toward him.
"I heard people yelling, 'Run, run!'" said Kentis, who wrote and directed the 2003 sleeper hit about two scuba divers stranded in shark-infested waters. "I looked behind me and I thought, 'This is what happens in a movie when there's a tidal wave.' You could hear the rumbling and this wave was coming right at us."
For more, 'Open Water'
Bought Out of Tribe Casino
Donald Trump
The Twenty Nine Palms Band of Mission Indians is buying Donald Trump out of its casino.
The tribe has announced an early $6 million buyout of its partnership with Trump Hotels and Casino Resorts Inc. The initial $11 million deal two years ago renamed the tribe's Spotlight 29 Casino the Trump 29 Casino. Daily operations were turned over to Trump's company as part of a $60 million expansion.
The buyout announcement comes after Trump Hotels filed for bankruptcy last month. A bankruptcy judge this month signed off on a $100 million loan that will keep Trump's casinos in New Jersey and Indiana open while the bankruptcy case is resolved.
Donald Trump
Wedding News
Mangan - Damon
Red Sox center fielder Johnny Damon, still sporting his trademark long locks, married Michelle Mangan in a ceremony in Florida this week.
AC/DC lead singer Brian Johnson, celebrity chef Todd English and Damon's Red Sox teammates Doug Mientkiewicz, Mike Timlin, Kevin Millar, Bronson Arroyo and Kevin Youkilis were among the 175 guests who attended the ceremony Thursday at Orlando's Ritz Carlton Grande Lakes Hotel.
It was the second marriage for the 31-year-old Damon, whose 5-year-old twins, Madelyn and Jackson, served as flower girl and ring bearer.
Mangan - Damon
Shot Stray Cat on Manager's Orders
Wal-Mart Employees
Two Wal-Mart employees who police say followed a manager's orders to shoot and kill a stray cat have been charged with federal animal cruelty.
The men, both assistant managers at the Supercenter, were arrested and released after a court appearance Wednesday. Christopher Anderson, 29, and Jeffrey Hardin, 21, told police the store's manager ordered them to get rid of the animal that was living in a storage trailer behind their store.
A truck driver who reported the incident said he saw store employees placing what he believed to be a dead animal in shrink wrap a day after he heard workers joking about shooting the cat.
Store manager Darrel Weitzel told police he had told some of his employees to get a gun and get rid of the cat after attempts to coax it from the trailer failed, according to a police report.
Wal-Mart Employees
Joining Napa Land Trust Committee
Robert Redford
Actor Robert Redford has agreed to join the advisory committee of the Land Trust of Napa County.
Redford, who owns property in Calistoga, spoke during the trust's "Feast of Eden" fund-raiser earlier this year and helped raise more than $200,000, said Kate Merriman, development director for the trust.
The nonprofit group's Web site said it protects about 33,000 acres through easements, property transfers and donations.
Robert Redford
'The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979-2005'
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Forklifts were expected to begin moving 15,000 steel bases into place on Monday for a public work of art that will allow visitors to Central Park to walk through 7,500 gates hung with panels of saffron-colored fabric.
The temporary work, "The Gates, Central Park, New York, 1979-2005" by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, will consist of 16-foot-high gates placed along 23 miles of footpaths, usually at 12-foot intervals. Fabric will be suspended from each gate, falling to 7 feet above the ground.
The gates will be held in place by the steel bases, which were brought to the park beginning in December and will be moved gradually to designated spots along the park's footpaths on Monday afternoon, weather permitting.
In the next stage of installation, set to begin on Feb. 7, weather permitting, vinyl poles will be attached to the bases to form frame-like gates from which the fabric will be suspended. The fabric will be unfurled on Feb. 12, 2005, and the work will remain in place until Feb. 27.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Exhibit Of Portraits
Andres Serrano
Plaster flakes shower past the scaffolding as a worker chisels away at moulding. Sixteenth-and 17th-century religious works sit wrapped in protective plastic sheeting.
You almost imagine you're seeing the restoration of an English church, complete with oak double door, until your eyes confront a large colour photograph of a black Jesus in dreadlocks cradled by a white Mary.
The 2001 picture is The Other Christ. Its creator, and the owner of the apartment in which it hangs, is Andres Serrano, described by some as "the enfant terrible of the Culture Wars."
The 54-year-old photographer landed in the centre of those wars in 1989, when his picture of a crucifix submerged in urine drew outrage from Christian conservatives and politicians who pressured Congress to slash funding for the National Endowment for the Arts, which had supported the project.
For a lot more, Andres Serrano
Kidnap Attempt In '74
Princess Anne
Britain's Princess Anne was so enraged when a deranged gunman tried to kidnap her that she nearly lost her temper and hit him, secret documents revealed on Saturday.
But she decided that discretion was the better part of valor and instead showed exemplary sang froid, refusing to get out of her official limousine and telling gunman Ian Ball that there was no way his ransom demand could be met.
Dramatic details of how Queen Elizabeth's daughter risked her life on the night of March 20, 1974 were revealed when official documents were released for the first time by the National Archives.
On reading the official version of the kidnap attempt, Prime Minister Harold Wilson scribbled in the margin: "A very good story. Pity the Palace didn't let it come out."
Princess Anne
First Snow - Ever
United Arab Emirates
Snow has fallen over the United Arab Emirates for what is believed to be the first time ever, leaving a white blanket over the mountains of Ras al-Khaimah as the desert country experienced a cold spell and above-average rainfall.
Dubai airport's meteorology department reported that snow fell over the Al-Jees mountain range in Ras al-Khaimah, which is the most northerly member of the UAE federation.
The English-language Gulf News reported that the mountain cluster, 1,737 metres above sea level, "had heavy night-time snowfall for the past two days as a result of temperatures dropping to as low as minus five Celsius" and stunned the Emirate's residents.
United Arab Emirates
Faces Troubles
Vocal Group Hall of Fame
Six years after it opened, the Vocal Group Hall of Fame has shut its doors and canceled its 2004 induction amid financial troubles and, most recently, two lawsuits filed by its original benefactor. The hall's operators, however, insist the woes won't sink the hall for good.
"There's a place for it, and it exists in the minds and hearts of all the vocal groups we've touched already," said founder Tony Butala, also the founding member of the vocal group The Lettermen.
Located in the small town of Sharon on the Pennsylvania-Ohio border, the hall was founded by Butala with help from James E. Winner Jr., owner of a hotel and the company that makes The Club vehicle anti-theft device.
For the rest, Vocal Group Hall of Fame
Tsunami Adds to Belief
Animals' 'Sixth Sense'
Wild animals seem to have escaped the Indian Ocean tsunami, adding weight to notions they possess a "sixth sense" for disasters, experts said Thursday.
Sri Lankan wildlife officials have said the giant waves that killed over 24,000 people along the Indian Ocean island's coast seemingly missed wild beasts, with no dead animals found.
"No elephants are dead, not even a dead hare or rabbit. I think animals can sense disaster. They have a sixth sense. They know when things are happening," H.D. Ratnayake, deputy director of Sri Lanka's Wildlife Department, said Wednesday.
Animals' 'Sixth Sense'
