Sure, this seems damning.  But

—You’ll do what, exactly?  Boycott him?  C’mon.  He’s like smack to you people. Speaking of which, just two nights ago we held an intervention to help the little fella get the monkey off his back.  Which, I’ll be the first to admit, was one of the most emotionally draining experiences of my life. Still, it was the right thing to do—even if it meant sedating the wretched simian with horse

Breitbart / AP: “Israel Massing Troops on Lebanese Border”: Israel massed tanks and troops on the border Friday and warned civilians to flee Hezbollah-controlled southern Lebanon as it prepared for a likely ground invasion to set up a deep buffer zone. An Israeli envoy said it will allow aid supplies into Lebanon, a day after the United Nations warned of a growing humanitarian crisis in the country. Hezbollah militants fired

Speaking of the Fatty Arbuckle scandal and it’s similarities to the execrable Duke “rape” scandal (yes, we were), here’s James Thayer, writing in the Weekly Standard: Roscoe Arbuckle was billed as Fatty, though he hated the nickname and his friends never called him by it. In 1921–back when a plumber earned about $2,600 a year–Fatty Arbuckle signed an unprecedented million dollar per-year contract with Paramount Pictures Corporation. More Americans could

“What do you mean ‘we’re out of Rice Chex?’ How can we be out of goddamned Rice Chex?” update:  “You know what?  No big deal.  Just toast me up a Pop Tart, instead.”

Tuscany’s Castello di Gabbiano Estate was established in 1124—the year Alexander I was buried at Dunfermline.  And yet here I sit in my underwear nearly 900 years later, drinking the very same wine that had Pope Benedict VIII slurring his way through apostolic constitutions—and finding myself every bit as shitfaced as the old coot must’ve been before ordering some hill country hooker drowned as a witch, or some posse of

To Terry Hindshaw for both the Alfred Hitchcock Signature Collection DVD set (Strangers on a Train; Foreign Correspondent; Mr and Mrs Smith; The Wrong Man; Dial M for Murder; North by Northwest; Suspicion; I Confess; Stage Fright), as well as for Hitchcock’s Lifeboat.  I’m a big Hitchcock fan, and I look forward to seeing several of these films for the first time. Thanks also to Michael Evans for the great

From the Jerusalem Post: The Lebanese Minister of Defense warned Israel Thursday that if IDF ground forces are sent into southern Lebanon, Lebanese troops will fight along with the Hizbullah against Israel. So wait—if Lebanese troops join the fight by defending Hizbullah (and wasn’t the Lebanese story up until now that they couldn’t control Hizbullah in southern Lebanon?), does this not mean that the Lebanese government will have in fact

Annan:  “I repeat:  Hostilities in Lebanon must stop. But while they continue, it is imperative to establish safe corridors for humanitarian workers and relief supplies to reach the civilian population.”** mallrat: “Whatever, bro.  You forgot my straw.  And that’s my 83 cents change you just slipped into your apron pocket, too.”

From All Headline News: According to South Korean reports released Wednesday, North Korea has issued an order of high readiness to its armed forces following the launch of its missile tests two weeks ago. Citing the South Korean government sources in Seoul, the Yonhap news agency reported that the alert was issued to North Korean forces on July 5 as the country fired seven missiles into the Sea of Japan.