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May 7, 2013

RIP Ray Harryhausen [Darleen Click]

The legend is passes away at 92 Way before movies like Star Wars and The Lord of the Rings inspired the imagination of film lovers everywhere, audiences were enraptured by the sword-wielding skeletons of Jason and the Argonauts, the great ape of Mighty Joe Young and the dinosaurs opposite Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. The man responsible for all those and much more, Hollywood special-effects pioneer Ray Harryhausen,

Best Tweet of the Year [Darleen Click]

That’s gonna leave a mark!

“The Great Refrainer” [Darleen Click]

Linguistic nostalgia

Or, Thou’s momma is so hot, the bitch spits ashes and sets fire to bark.         

By the way, a bunch of GOP Senators? Voted for an internet tax.

To give you an idea of where we are, politically — and linguistically — the measure was supported by the American Conservative Union. I guess they figure John Boehner and the boys, solid conservatives with an iron-fisted control over any taxation schemes, will save them in the House (from Enzi, a Republican in the Senate), where staunch, eye-on-the-ball fiscal growth hawks like Paul Ryan are open to the idea of

Mitch McConnell’s bird flip to the TEA Party

Before we get started here, let me note that Marco Rubio should have recognizing how he was being played by the establishment Republicans, who cynically used his popularity with many conservatives to give cover to an awful piece of legislation, while simultaneously knee-capping the Florida Senator’s future political ambitions in the eyes of many in the GOP base.  Having said that — and Rubio is culpable, though naivete can be

“Obama’s message to the Class of ’13: So much is wrong with America”

Andrew Malcolm, IBD: Seventy-five months into his perpetual campaign to transform America into something else, Barack Obama is still talking about all that’s wrong with the country he’s spent almost $2 billion of other people’s money to lead. You might think by now the unhappy warrior would be capable of touting some progress in his annual string of commencement addresses to inattentive audiences sitting in hot sun. But, No. Obama