The New York Times is reporting that CBS is using some Enron-style accounting to pay Michael Jackson $1 million for last Sunday's "60 Minutes" interview. Since such a payment flies in the face of journalistic ethics, CBS managed to get its entertainment division to write the check, according to the Times. Another black eye for […]
James Taranto's "Best of the Web Today" yesterday highlighted Democrat presidential hopeful Howard Dean's interview last week in the Boston Globe which I also mentioned. Well, when I saw that, I thought to myself, Taranto hasn't seen anything yet, and pointed him to my post and the related Dean blog post on Christmas Day. Today's […]
On the day the NASDAQ closed above 2,000 for the first time in 21 months, The New York Times' most irrelevant columnist, Paul Krugman, comes out with a column designed to show that the economy is not improving. To quote, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Krugman's point is: Everything you know is wrong Black is white, up […]
I finally got a chance to see final installment of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy. If you haven't seen it yet, you should make it a point to see it. The three-plus hours are well spent. My favorite line of this movie is from Gimli, following up on the extended DVD edition of […]
The Right Reverend John Bryson Chane, bishop of Washington, D.C.'s National Cathedral gave one doozy of a Christmas sermon. The subject of the sermon was miracles. The Wrong Reverend listed some of God's miracles. Some would say that God does not exist, Jesus was a dreamer and that Christmas and Christ's birth and living presence […]
Some perverts people find Hoystory using the oddest searches, and I'm proud to declare that according to Yahoo's search engine, Hoystory.com is the #1 site for: Naked club parties for New year's Eve in Chicago that don't prohibit nudity You'd hate to got to a naked club party that prohibited nudity, wouldn't you?
Caught this on the wire, but the article containing them by The Denver Post's John Henderson should make an appearance on the Web soon. The quotes, both courtesy of Blake Elliott of St. John's (Minn.): Best In-Your-Face-Trash-Talk comeback: Blake Elliott, St. John's (Minn.) wide receiver. After catching a pass and being told by a defensive […]
I've never really tried this, but if it works for Howard Dean, maybe it'll work for me. See, on Dean's blog, he has a big long post where every link takes you to his contribute page -- and there are nine of them. So, for those of you who are recovering from all of that […]
The Boston Globe has a piece on Democrat presidential candidate Howard Dean's own "Southern Strategy" to emphasize his Christianity. Now, I try to do my best not to judge other people's faith, so I won't really comment on the substance of what Dean says in the Globe article. However, Dean did post his "holiday" message […]