Category: Entertainment
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Hallmark’s New Idea: Sympathy Cards For The Unemployed
File this one under there’s a market for everything: Greeting card companies have taken a cue from the nation’s 9 percent unemployment rate. In a six-by-four inch envelope, someone can send a friend who lost his or her job a pre-printed message of encouragement and sympathy. Though not available at every corner store, layoff greeting…
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Oxford Comma Cartoon
I’m not sure when “the strippers, JFK, and Stalin” would be used in a sentence given that Stalin died in 1953, when JFK was in his first year in the Senate and thus unlikely to be invited to parties with heads of state, but this is amusing nonetheless: via Brian J. Noggle’s Facebook
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Saturday Night Live Does “Either The 7th Or 8th” Republican Debate
Saturday Night Live was back last night and, not surprisingly, their cold open dealt quite nicely with the Republican race for the White House:
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Photo Op FAIL Of The Day: International Not-So-Much Diplomacy Edition
Yesterday in New York, President Obama posed for a photograph with an International Open Government Partnership event: The gentlemen who was blocked is apparently a representative from Mongolia.
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What’s Really Behind The Netflix/Qwikster Split?
The decision to split Netflix into two companies makes no sense. Unless you look behind the scenes.
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Quote Of The Day: Get Off My Lawn, Kid Edition
“It’s our forebears,” said Malia Alexander, 24, interviewed on a recent night at the Black Lodge, an all-ages club next to Interstate 5. “It’s kind of my dad’s music.” – From a New York Times article on Seattle 20 years after the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind
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Navy’s Nike Pro Combat Uniforms
While most of the Nike “pro combat” uniforms that college teams have worn over the last few years have been garish one-offs never seen again after their debut game, their revamp of the Navy unies is actually an upgrade
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No Football On 9/11?
Was it wrong for the NFL to schedule its opening Sunday on the anniversary of the September 11th attacks?
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Russian Hockey Team Plane Crash Kills 43
Horrible news: A Russian jet carrying a KHL ice hockey team crashed into a river bank Wednesday while taking off in western Russia, killing at least 43 people and leaving two others critically injured, officials said. The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the Yak-42 plane crashed in sunny weather immediately after leaving an airport near…
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Maryland Football Uniforms Ugly, Attract Needed Attention
The Maryland Terrapins upset the Miami Hurricanes 32-24 last night in college football’s opening weekend. But all anyone is talking about is the ugly uniforms.
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George Lucas To Continue Killing Star Wars In Blu-Ray Release
George Lucas is once again “enhancing” his epic films for the upcoming Blu-Ray release.
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Obama Speech Scheduling Follies
How hard is it to schedule one measly jobs speech?
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Starbuck and Starbuck in a Starbucks
Dirk Benedict, who played Lt. Starbuck in the classic Battlestar Galactica, with Katee Sackhoff, who played Kara “Starbuck” Thrace in the modern Battlestar Galactica, in a Starbucks coffee shop.
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Earthquakes and the Internet
When an earthquake hits, people flood the internet with posts about it–some within 20 or 30 seconds.
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Psychic Benefits of Sports Team Ownership
Money isn’t the only benefit some receive for their work.
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CNN Can’t Find Tripoli On A Map, At Least Not The Right One
CNN correspondent Sara Sidner is in Tripoli, Libya reporting on the rebel advance into the city. Unfortunately when she was interviewed recently whoever was in charge of graphics at CNN must’ve been someone who flunked geography: There is a Tripoli, Lebanon, of course, but it isn’t currently under rebel assault, and presumably not the hideout…
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Star Trek Free Streaming
Every episode of every live action Star Trek series is now free for streaming from Amazon.
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Interview with a One-Year-Old
Arturo Trejo conducts a hard-hitting interview with his son, Jose Luis
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Stephen Colbert Treasurer Goes to Rick Perry (with an E)
The treasurer behind “Rick Parry with an ‘A’ for America” has left to work with Rick Perry
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Is Ames Straw Poll Meaningless? Or is it Iowa?
The Ames Straw Poll is like the first scrimmage of NFL training camp.
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Sesame Street Producers: Bert And Ernie Won’t Be Getting Married, And They’re Not Gay
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
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The Receipt Is Too Damn Long
Rebecca J. Rosen explains why “Ridiculously Long CVS Receipts Will Remain Ridiculously Long.” And Mitch Hedberg ponders why they give you a receipt for a donut.
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Password Strength FAIL
Through 20 years of effort, we’ve successfully trained everyone to use passwords that are hard for humans to remember but easy for computers to guess.
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Are The Good Times Really Over For Good?
Watching the news and reading the op-eds makes it clear: America is doomed.
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Fear of a Black Spider-Man
Marvel has created an alternate universe in which Spiderman is a half-black, half-Latino teenager. Some people are angry.
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Kurt Vonnegut on the Shapes of Stories
Kurt Vonnegut on teaching a computer to write a story.
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Headline of the Day – Debt Deal Edition
“Anders Breivik’s crazy list of demands is being kept away from President Obama because Obama loves giving crazy people everything they want” – Fark
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Milton Friedman v. Michael Moore on Pinto
Fascinating exchange from the late 1970s.
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Playing the Victim Card
This is simply brilliant. The Daily ShowGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook
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NFL Lockout Should End Tomorrow
“Essentially the deal is considered a formality at this point in time.” Players should be back in locker rooms Wednesday. New league year, including free agency, would begin next Saturday.
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Amy Winehouse Dead at 27
TMZ (“Amy Winehouse Found Dead“): Amy Winehouse was found dead in her apartment in London today … this according to several reports. A press release from the Metropolitan Police, which doesn’t specifically name Winehouse, says: “Police were called by London Ambulance Service to an address in Camden Square NW1 shortly before 16.05hrs today, Saturday 23…
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It’s Pretty Sad When A Headline From The Onion Reads Like Today’s Front Page
Read it and weep H/T: John Cole
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Eat Your Peas!
If you don’t eat your peas you’ll grow up to be a Congressman!
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Michele Bachmann: President Obama Doesn’t Have Any “Choot-Spa”
This would be why people from Minnesota shouldn’t try to get all ethnic:
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Roger Clemens Mistrial
A mistrial has been ruled in the Roger Clemens perjury trial and the judge may rule that a retrial would constitute double jeopardy.
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New Dallas Series Coming from TNT
What I find amusing is less that there is going to be a new version of Dallas (the mega-hit 1980s prime time soap), but that it made the front page of the BBC News page: New Dallas series given go-ahead. Of course, as I recall, the show was quite big in Europe (especially Germany).
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Derek Jeter Passes 3,000 Hits For The Second Time
Jeter’s 3,000 hits now “official.”
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Film School Bubble
More people are chasing careers in film than there are careers in film. And not just in front of the camera.
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American Independence: Time to End the Experiment?
British professor Julian Lindley-French offers a tongue-in-cheek essay for the 4th of July: “American Independence: Time to End the Experiment.”
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Wimbledon’s Lines
Tennis’ most aristocratic championship is also its most democratic.
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Marilyn Monroe Was NOT a Size 12!
It’s often said that 1950s sex symbol Marilyn Monroe was a size 12. It just isn’t so.
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Ann Coulter Calls Princess Diana ‘Anorexic, Bulimic Narcissist’
Ann Coulter explains why she’s not a fan of the late Princess Di: “”I find it a little baffling when Americans get so gaga-eyed over a princess. In particular Lady Di, who was just this anorexic, bulimic narcissist.”
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Stephen Colbert PAC Authorized by FEC
The Stephen Colbert Super PAC that began as a satire has now been blessed by the real FEC. What exactly this means is not yet clear.
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Why Can Kids See Violence But Not Porn?
Is it worse for a child to see pornography or graphic violence?
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John Lennon, Closet Republican?
While his best-known solo effort was “anti-religious, anti-nationalistic, anti-conventional, [and] anti-capitalistic,” John Lennon became a Reagan Republican a few years later, his assistant claims.
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Does ‘Go The F- To Sleep’ Encourage Violence Against Kids?
Some people have no sense of humor.
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Jack Kirby’s Heirs Suing Marvel
Jack Kirby’s heir are trying to posthumously renegotiate half-century old deals with Marvel.
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Brooks Brothers Selling College Gear
The venerable Brooks Brothers is getting into the college apparel business, selling sweaters and polos for Boston College; the U.S. Naval Academy, Auburn, Cornell, Harvard, New York, Ohio State, Princeton, Stanford, and Vanderbilt Universities and the Universities of Alabama, Georgia, Notre Dame and Virginia.
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Michigan Basketball Recruit in Coma after Second Plane Crash
A horrible tale: A standout Indiana high school basketball player with the promise of playing at the University of Michigan is fighting for his life after surviving the second plane crash of his young life. Austin Hatch, 16, of Fort Wayne, Ind., remained in critical condition Sunday in a northern Michigan hospital after the Friday…