Soylent Green & Corporations Are People Too

The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Let Freedom Ka-Ching www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Michael Moore “…corporations are people entitled to protection under the first amendment.” —Attorney Ted Olsen in oral argument before The Supremes The US Supreme Court is currently deciding a case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission , that …

Arizona Rep Calls Obama “Enemy of Humanity”

At the wingers’ How to Take Back America Conference last weekend in St.Louis, Rep. Trent Franks, [Rethug-AZ] ratchets up the hate rhetoric against President Obama, calling him “an enemy of humanity.”

The Great Brain Robbery

Last week ABC premiered a new one hour sci-fi drama series called Fast Forward. The premise involves a mysterious worldwide 2 minute 17 second long blackout. People driving automobiles, flying in airplanes, or undergoing shock therapy to remove all traces of Glenn Beck shows from their neural circuitry, die. The survivors awake with the ability to see their individual futures exactly 6 months in the future.

Afutilestan

The contents of General McCrystal’s top-down review of Afghanistan ordered by President Obama found its way into the front pages of the NY Times and Washington Post today. As expected, it paints a grim picture and calls for more of everything– more troops, more money, more nation building– on top of the $ 4 billion a month we’re already spending …

Apple Shoes

Louis Black, after a good nap. BOULDER — Louis Black was in Boulder last night, chatting up the locals. He looked and sounded a little tired of it all, you know— having to tell jokes about all the adult children who are happy to continue shitting on the levers of capitalism until their butt skin is raw— and made the …

Baby, We’re Back

I’ve been visiting my cousin, Fullbright. Sorry we’re late, but f*cking off takes time.  Thursday afternoon, our ISP locked down our site because of excess cpu usage, enough to destabilize the feeble server our data lives on. Uh, no, it wasn’t thousands of excited new visitors sucking up the bandwidth on our shared server, it was a renegade plugin. Everybody …

Henry Gibson 1936—2009

Henry Gibson, a wry comic character actor who was an original cast member of “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” graduated to the next world Monday, from his home in Malibu. He was 73.