That’s the amusing headline on a story about “Boss” Limbaugh in the current Vanity Fair. Included in the story is the figure that the average age of Limbaugh listeners is 67, and that this audience is dying off.
MSNBC’s Chris Matthews went the other way demographically the other day on “Hardball,” speculating that Limbauigh’s audience was [...]
It’s a perfectly good word, and a precise and useful one, too.
“Crackpot.”
Use it in a sentence, Bill.
OK. “Right-wing crackpot Sean Hannity.”
The premise here: Anyone who uses the terms “Obama” and “Bolshevik” in the same sentence, as the right-wing tonsil’s been doing, is ipso facto a “crackpot.”
Keith Olbermann calls this clown “The Manatee.” I prefer a [...]
SF comic/columnist Will Durst has an interesting take on the Easter “miracle,” tying it in with baseball…
“Especially with Easter so close; when Christ comes out of the cave, sees his shadow and baseball season starts. “
Newsweek’s cover story on serious-looking economist and truth-to-power guy Paul Krugman includes this funny line, delivered in his Princeton class last fall on the day he won his Nobel. Newsweek says it shows Krugman’s mordant sense of humor:
On trade with China: “They give us poisoned products, we give them worthless paper”.
Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm, who looks about 10 years older than she did last fall (understandably):
“GM, Ford and Chryster are basically health-care plans who make cars to support it.”
Robert Maynard, the late owner of the Oakland Tribune, was a historical and inspirational figure. The first African-American to be publisher of a major American daily, he was also, I might add, the best publisher I ever worked for. (He tolerated my foolishness for over a decade). This piece on how Bob and Nancy Maynard [...]
Dave Ross, whose witty commentaries are carried nationally on CBS Radio, assembled a bunch of about-to-be-unemployed Seattle P-I staffers the other day on his KIRO Radio show to reminisce about the doomed daily, put to sleep by Hearst a few days later.
The P-I was livelier and racier than the more staid Seattle [...]
Now here’s some challenging hunting!
Fox Noise’s Bellow Reilly knows an easy target when he sees one.
When I was television critic at the Oakland Tribune, I would get long, handwritten rants (still not sure why) from a black extremist group called Uhuru House. The term “white devils” was a recurring stylistic device. I recall one Uhuru [...]
It’s because of his screw-ups. The lack of them.
It makes us TV critics uncomfortable — unneeded, actually — to see something as well-done as MSNBC’s “Countdown.” This was the one downside of “The Sopranos.” Very little to complain about, and we critics are paid to bitch and cavil. It’s part of the job description.
There are [...]
A funny piece that ran in the National Lampoon has come to mind lately on several occasions and for obvious reasons. It was titled, if I recall correctly, “How to Start a Bank Run.”
I don’t remember much of that list, but I do remember one idea that might be fun to try:
Go into your local [...]