December 18th, 2010
George Will has an awe-inspiring column about the new No Labels beyondism. Instant classic graph:
Often in the year before the year before the year divisible by four, a few political people theatrically recoil from partisanship. Recently, this ritual has involved speculation about whether New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg might squander a few of his billions to improve America by failing to be elected president.
Just go ahead and drop that into Will’s Best-Of anthology now.
My only point of disagreement with Will is this: “Whatever their defects, America’s political parties are marvelously sensitive market mechanisms, measuring every tremor of the electorate’s moods.”
That is often, but not always true. One of the ways a party gets bombed back into the Stone Age is by ignoring the public market, a la Republicans in 2006 and, more impressively, Democrats from 2008 until present.
I have very little to say about No Labels because some people I like (and others, whom I admire) are involved with the group. I’d only ask this: How in the world did they keep Tom Friedman off the bus? This outfit was made for him.
1 commentThe Showtime Kick
December 17th, 2010
Galley Brother B.J. sends along this insane MMA clip. It looks like a Virtua Fighter 3 finishing move.
1 commentThe Brothers Mario
December 16th, 2010
Courtesy of Galley Friend M.W.
0 commentsSimiles
December 16th, 2010
Skeet Ulrich it to Johnny Depp as:
(a) Megan Fox is to Olivia Wilde
(b) Olivia Wilde is to Megan Fox
(c) Michael Pitt is to Leonardo DiCaprio
5 commentsFast Five
December 15th, 2010
I do not like the Facebook. I think that’s well established. But whatever intellectual objections I hold are overwhelmed by this simple limitation: The Facebook cannot handle Vin Diesel + The Rock.
There is too much awesome.
1 commentWorst Celebrity Father Ever?
December 15th, 2010
Move over Michael Lohan and make room for Jack Birch. Jack is the father of actress Thora Birch, who was just fired from the Broadway production of Dracula, only a few days before the show opened.
The official story is that Jack (who is his daughter’s manager) was attending rehearsals and threatened one of the other actors. The show’s producers claim that this is why Thora was let go–they couldn’t have a stage-father giving direction and pushing other actors around.
Now maybe the story about Jack bullying other actors is true, and maybe it isn’t. But Jack goes and tells the press that he did no such thing and that the real reason Thora was fired was because she wasn’t performing well.
So either Jack Birch got his daughter/client fired from a gig or he’s demolishing a face-saving explanation which was designed to protect his daughter/client and throwing her under the bus. Awesome.
Bonus: He used to do porn.
1 commentThe Adult Minivan
December 14th, 2010
The Truth About Cars has an item about a very interesting feature on the new Nissan Quest.
0 commentsLucas, Leia, Star Wars Physics
December 14th, 2010
Skip the lede with Carrie Fischer saysing that she banged a nerd or seven back in the day when she was stoned out of her mind in the post-Star Wars years.
What’s notable about this story is Fischer’s claim that George Lucas asked her to go bra-less in the Star Wars movies because he wanted some scientific authenticity and that wearing a bra in space would result in strangulation. Fischer went along with it.
It’s difficult to tell who was being more naive.
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