Some celebrities, eh? Whaddya gonna do. Poor, crazy, mixed up kid. I say we just give her some space to heal. Also: PICTURES BELOW OF BRITNEY LEAVING MALIBU REHAB FACILITY TO FIND SOME SPACE TO HEAL! (seriously, this time).
February 22, 2007
Dialectical Materialism: What could be less material? [Dan Collins]
Dialectical materialism offered a weak substitute for transcendent belief. I’d start quoting, but I’d end up quoting most of it. So just go read it, if you’re interested in this sort of thing. Yet another thing to do while in Cleveland.
February 22, 2007
The “if my sixth Pimm’s and ginger ale were a Lionel Richie song” post (or, postscript to “All Night Long (All Night)")
If my sixth Pimm’s and ginger ale were a Lionel Richie song, it would be called, “Damn, That’s Some Tasty Limey Shit!”—and it would peak at number twenty-four on the Billboard Pop Charts. Unless, of course, Diana Ross agreed to sing it as a duet—and a Brooke Shields lookalike flashed a bit of berry-brown nipple in the video. Then, it’d be number one with a bullet, baby!
February 22, 2007
Two Things David Geffen Has Right [Dan Collins]
Americans are dying every day in Iraq. And I’m tired of hearing James Carville on television. Word. On the other hand, this seems to be why Geffen has it in for the Clintons:
February 22, 2007
Shorter Collins (a Protein Wisdom Lefties Tell Me Who I Am Conceptual Post) [Dan Collins]
Declowning. They had it coming, but I still think the guy was wrong. h/t: jFry UPDATE: Captain! The Romulan ship is declowning!
February 21, 2007
a CITIZEN JOURNALIST prepares himself for the coming HYPERPATRIOTIC state, 2
Spent this afternoon casing my new neighborhood for evidence of covert leftwing infiltration—something which, to the highly trained eye, will manifest itself in otherwise unremarkable quotidiana, be it the type of lift kit one puts on one’s Jeep Wrangler Rubicon, or the way the creases run down one’s quilt-lined Carhartt coveralls. To date, I’ve managed to identify three compelling suspects—one of whom I believe to be an imminent threat (thanks
February 21, 2007
Alterman: “I think it would be good if we had some sort of, you know, blogging—you know—council, where we could condemn people.”
Because, well, it’s probably a bad idea to let the proles decide for themselves who to trust without first having in place some elite Blogging Council (Kofi Annan, co-Chair?) to provide a “corrective filter” to all those unregulated personal opinions. To, you know— protect the online lumpenproletariat from their own ignorance and such. After all, an unfiltered blogosphere is how we ended up with a Democratic House and Senate, is
February 21, 2007
Campos Heap, redux
Paul Campos—a “progressive” University of Colorado law professor and semi-regular columnist for the Rocky Mountain News—has, as I’ve pointed out in the past, a disturbing tendency (particularly for an educator) to let his ideological blinders influence his public arguments. And nowhere is this more true that in his recent column taking Glenn Reynolds to task for Prof. Reynolds’ now “infamous” post floating the idea (which Reynolds himself would be the
February 21, 2007
BRITNEY SPEARS ON THE VERGE OF A BREAKDOWN!
Sorry. Figured I’d better post something pronto before I was forced off the front page again. Also: PICTURES OF BRITNEY BREAKING DOWN BELOW THE FOLD!
February 21, 2007
Idiot in Search of New Village [Dan Collins]
The trials of Jade Goody, the UK’s “premier village idiot” continue. Previous village: She did her job too well. Question for Eagleton: Do Chavs constitute a portion of the truly multicultural society?