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April 12, 2013

RIP Jonathan Winters [Darleen Click]

Winters passed away Thursday evening. He was 87. The Ohio native died Thursday evening at his Montecito, Calif., home of natural causes, said Joe Petro III, a longtime family friend. Petro said Winters died surrounded by family and friends. Winters was a pioneer of improvisational standup comedy, with an exceptional gift for mimicry, a grab bag of eccentric personalities and a bottomless reservoir of creative energy. Facial contortions, sound effects,

California’s True-Blue Dream Nightmare [Darleen Click]

How’s that “The Bigger the Government the better” stuff going? Well, as Gov Jerry Brown is in China to ride their bullet train (which has its own corruption scandal), Moonbeam’s “Prison realignment” program (AB109) enacted to save money, allegedly is producing more dead bodies The case of a convicted felon who allegedly stabbed a woman to death at a California park-and-ride has exposed flaws in Gov. Jerry Brown’s controversial plan

The opposite SEKs

Several people have emailed / Tweeted me to bring to my attention the latest bit of tiny dick waving by the self-styled smartest man on the intertubes, Scott Eric Kaufman, he of that rather exclusive fraternity of self-evidently brilliant men who have been “christened” with a Doctor of Philosophy in English. His target this time is Stacy McCain, who Master Dr Kaufman assures us is a rank homophobe. This is