God damn, I'm funny! Mark Twain Funny.  Lee Salem is the President of Universal Press Syndicate. They distribute Ann Coulter’s hateful columns, most recently Ann said thay she wished "John Edwards was killed in a terrorist attack. " She later defended this as her freedom of speech .  Mr. Salem wants to preserve his profit […]

With Cindy Sheehan "retiring, " I thought I would re-run this fantastic piece by our own Giles Weaver. Enjoy " Mother's Day: The Holiday to End All Wars"  Pardon the old Atari format.  -CP    

On BOX OFFICE MOJO, I ran across this self-righteous little piece  tying Hollywood Movies to real-life violence. Scott Holleran, a Drudge Report Flunkie, while discussing the Virginia Tech Murders states “Hot Fuzz adds a trigger-pumping leading man (dynamic Simon Pegg) who plays it straight. But it ultimately cracks the same, shopworn joke that limbs being […]

We're all talkingheads. It's unstoppable. In this great and glorious era when we all have ideological opinions about every piece of estorica, I am standing up and saying "I'm an idiot! And I want my share!" And you will be, too. The dialetics of the thing are too strong to ignore!

We're all talkingheads. It's unstoppable. In this great and glorious era when we all have ideological opinions about every piece of estorica, I am standing up and saying "I'm an idiot! And I want my share!" And you will be, too. The dialetics of the thing are too strong to ignore! The lash: The private […]

As Bloggers, we have been assigned the portentous titles of “Citizen Journalists” by people, people who should probably spending more time belching and picking their toes, instead of having technocratic fever dreams about the Future of Media and Its Distribution. I am wiling to indulge these types, and so here, in my role of journalist, […]

With FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS slipping into STUDIO 60 timeslot just two days before sweeps, it looks like Lights out on Set. The recent announcement that NBC was cutting expensive shows was a hint. If you look at the starpower,the above-the-line has to be outta this world. It doesn’t help that they aren’t on the main […]

Why do New Yorkers tolerate such swillish coffee? Can everyone in one of the largest cities in the world be better dressed than me, includingsmall children? Is the shambling comic book dork community that attractive women go to comic bookshops in New York City? 

King George W. Bush signed the Military Commission Act of 2006 into law today.  The provisions of the law officially make our country a banana republic ruled by a dictator, and creates a legal foundation to allow our nation to be ruled by dictators for decades to come.  

It’s a subject that I’ve been thinking about recently, thanks to to passage in the musician John Cale’s autobiography, “What’s Welsh for Zen?”, a book I re-read recently. Cale, of course, made up the nucleus of the Velvet Underground with Lou Reed, and so was part of the Factory scene in the late Sixties. In […]