“Tonight was the last ‘Tonight Show’ hosted by Jay Leno. Out of respect to Jay, I’d like to do the first joke he told on May 25th, 1992, when he took over the ‘Tonight Show. He said, ‘This, of course, is the ‘Tonight Show,’ the one TV program Dan Quayle hates even more than ‘Murphy […]
Last week, right-wing talk radio was all steamed up that most of the car dealerships being closed by Chrysler were owned by people who had contributed to the GOP. Keith Olbermann does a much better (and funnier) job than I could of explaining why this is so.
Just after meeting one-on-one with nominee Sonia Sotomayor, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Jeff Sessions, announced that he would like to delay the Supreme Court confirmation hearings until September. Some have theorized that conservatives want the delay because the recent murder of abortion doctor George Tiller will make it difficult for them […]
Obama does deadpan, only giving it away at the very end.
“Hey, last night at a fundraiser in Beverly Hills, people paid $30,000 to attend a dinner and a discussion with President Barack Obama. The subject of the discussion? The struggling economy.” – Jay Leno “Let me tell you something, if you spend $30,000 on dinner, aren’t you legally a Republican at this point? I think […]
Rachel Maddow points out that we have an ongoing and widely documented program of domestic terrorism going on that is achieving its goals using murder and bombing (including purposely bombing innocent people to spread terror), and we aren’t doing much about it: UPDATE: © Jimmy Margulies
“Even with the recession, the price of gas continues to go up. And some economists say that’s because speculators think the economy will turn around soon, and when things are good, gas prices are high. But you know, when things are bad, gas prices are high. I’m not an economist, but here’s a wild thought. […]
It is a rare day when I agree with Fox News, let along credit them with coming up with a good point, but Fox News reporter Steve Brown today accused Norm Coleman of judicial activism in his court case trying to overturn the election of Al Franken to the Senate: The five justices, five of […]
In the wake of the murder of a Kansas doctor who performed abortions by a pro-life zealot, isn’t it hypocritical that the same people who screamed about William Ayers being a domestic terrorist and attacked Obama for “palling around” with him don’t think of people who kill doctors or bomb medical facilities as domestic terrorists? […]
It was bad enough when Republican candidates in the presidential election invoked Jack Bauer from the TV show 24 as their model for how to deal with terrorists. Now the National Review has published an incredibly surreal list of the “Best Conservative Movies of the Last 25 Years“. Here’s the complete list: #25: Gran Torino […]