WASHINGTON The NEA announced that it has begun construction on a $1.3 billion, 14-line lyric poem its largest investment in the nation's aesthetic-industrial complex since the $850 million interpretive-dance budget of 1985. "We need to make sure America's poems remain the biggest, best-designed, best-funded poem...(Read more...)
Iran's wheelchair basketball team forfeited a game against America over the weekend at the Paralympics in Beijing. Press reports say Iran denied the withdrawal was political, but it seems clear to just about everyone that Iran was trying to avoid the potential of a match against Israel; according to the schedule, the w...(Read more...)
Simply outstanding 42-minute mini-movie. A tragi-comedy musical by Joss Whedon -- creator of TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, and Firefly. Doesn't get any better than this. (Read more...)
WASHINGTON: "Presidential hopefuls John McCain (R-AZ), Barack Obama (D-IL), and Hillary Clinton (D-NY) announced Monday their plans to form what many Beltway observers have already dubbed the "2008 Nightmare Ticket," a calculated move that political analysts say offers voters the worst of both worlds. "No other ...(Read more...)
Jack Chick, that is. And as if Chick tracts weren't funny on their own, this site commenting on them got me close to dying with laughter. (Read more...)
