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Month: October 2010
The Rally to Restore Sanity/Fear
About two hours before the crack of dawn tomorrow–barring a dramatic change in circumstances–I’m going to hop into a car and drive down to Washington, D.C. for the Comedy Central-sponsored political rally. I have no idea if anyone else on this board is planning to go, but if so, maybe I’ll see you there. For everyone else, it’s going to be broadcast on Comedy Central from Noon to 3.
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UPDATE: I will be endeavoring to Live Blog from the rally. We’ll see if I can manage to make it work on Kath’s iPad.
Whom do we trust?
Originally published February 25, 1994, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1058
It was easy when I was a kid. You didn’t trust anyone over the age of 30… the sole exception being Walter Cronkite (or, as his name was pronounced, Wal-ter Cron-kite).
Cowboy Pete Glee-fully Invites Fox to Bite Itself
Absolutely loved the “Glee” “Rocky Horror” episode. They did a terrific job of matching the characters on “Glee” in ways that I wouldn’t have imagined, plus the most terrifying aspect of all: Sue Sylvester making sense. Overall a tremendous job.
And best of all, Fox didn’t stop us from seeing it; we picked it up off iTunes. And yeah, I know, I know, Fox probably gets some money from that. But compare that to all the ad revenue they’ve lost in the NY area during their douchy blackout, and add to it Major League Baseball’s deciding to stream the World Series live for a fairly small fee (I’m dubious as to how many NY/Philly fans will give a dámņ, but at least the option is available) which I assume Fox will get no share of, and it’s nice to see that they’re taking some lumps for inconveniencing three million people. I mean, really, to get treated this badly by Fox, you usually have to be a science fiction series on Friday nights.
PAD
A Further Thought About Bill O’Reilly and Very Loud Men
There is a staggering irony to Bill O’Reilly inflaming the anger and suspicion that people have for Muslims.
Because it wasn’t all that long ago–just the middle of last century, in fact–that plenty of people opposed the notion of electing a Catholic to the office of President of the United States, on the assertion that he would simply take all his marching orders from the Vatican. Very Loud Men declared that a Catholic President would be nothing more than a puppet of the Pope, promoting the secret Catholic agenda (whatever that was.)
And a hundred years before that, when desperate Irish people were flooding our shores to escape the Potato Famine, Very Loud Men decried it, stating that the Irish would ruin our country. And the Very Loud Men got people very upset, and signs when up at places of employment declaring “Irish Need Not Apply.” And there isn’t any polling data available that I know of, but I’ll wager far more than seventy percent of Americans didn’t want those dámņëd Irish, not to mention their dámņëd Irish places of worship, anywhere on our fair shores.
And I’ll bet that a lot of those Very Loud Men looked and sounded a lot like an Irish Catholic man named Bill O’Reilly.
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“Bottle” by Kirsten Lepore. I Thought You Should See It.
When Heroes Clash
Originally published February 18, 1994, in Comics Buyer’s Guide #1057
For the first time in quite a while, I have to do a bit of a fill-in column, since I’m crunched on a deadline from a Star Trek novel. (So for all those who ask, “How do you have the time to do all the things you write,” the answer is, I don’t always.)
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