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I’ll be heading out to New York for a week in the morning.  But don’t worry - I hear they have computers there.
I’ll be seeing three Broadway shows.  It’s not often that I have a friend on Broadway… let alone four, all in (or responsible for) shows this very month.  They are:
- Our own Mo […]

Hey now!
“I listen a little to the Democrats and if one of them gets elected, we are going on defense,” Giuliani continued. “We will wave the white flag on Iraq. We will cut back on the Patriot Act, electronic surveillance, interrogation and we will be back to our pre-Sept. 11 attitude of defense.”
He added: “The […]

From the AP (via CNN), this morning:
Specter calls Gonzales testimony ‘very damaging’
WASHINGTON — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has hurt the Bush administration and the Justice Department with his poor handling of the firing of eight federal prosecutors, a leading Republican said Sunday.
Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, the top Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, […]

First off, “Czar Ridiculous” is a play off “Czar Nicholas.” I’m not happy with it, but it’s not the worst pun I came up with. The other was “Czar? Czar? Stinks!” I won’t even bother to explain that.
So the Bushes have yet to find any takers for the “War Czar” spot. The Washington Post defined […]

My sister, blogging for CourtTV, has found a vintage, unintentionally entertaining video, “Notifying the Hostile Next of Kin” over at The Smoking Gun’s new video section.
Dating the film is difficult but not impossible. While the narrator sounds like an early-’60’s presence, the countrified old man stereotype is clearly post-Uncle Jesse from “The Dukes of Hazard” […]

I’m heading to Chicago tomorrow for what promises to be an odd “Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me.” Finding funny things in the news in a week like this is… challenging.
Which brings me to the whole Virginia Tech thing. I’ve been trying to figure out a way to say this without seeming too nihilistic. […]

I don’t have any reaction to the shootings at Virginia Tech yet, other than to say that it’s a horrible, horrible thing.  Which you already knew, I’m guessing.
But I thought you all might want to discuss it, and perhaps on a thread that doesn’t involve a wacky screaming imitation German…

Perhaps you remember the famed “Angry Screaming German Kid.” He’s a YouTube celebrity - one of those pieces of “candid” video that found its way onto the internets and created fame where it was least expected or deserved.
[Warning: If you haven’t seen the Kid, turn your sound way down before clicking the above […]

If you can take a break all take a break from rending your garments over the departure of Don Imus, there’s actual news here.
Beginning next week, my friend and recently-former-Fanatical Apathist Mo Rocca will be hitting the boards on Broadway. His engagement will last but a month, but from next week ’til mid-May you […]