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Does anyone think for a moment that if Obama hadn’t overseen the operation that resulted in bin Laden sleeping with the fishes, Mike Huckabee would have pulled out of consideration for the 2012 election?

What does that say about Obama’s chances in the eyes of the GOP if their current polling frontrunner doesn’t want any part of the next presidential campaign?

As an aside, I saw another poll recently that indicated that Sarah Palin had a name recognition value of ninety-six percent. I’m sure the reason for this has to do with rounding off answers to a lower decimal value or something, but taken at face value, it indicates that pollsters were actually able to find four percent of Americans who, when the name “Sarah Palin” was mentioned, said, “Doesn’t ring a bell.” That’s pretty astounding.

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What do you do when you have a two hour finale of a superhero series that’s been building to a huge smackdown between the forces of good and evil, and you don’t have the budget to actually carry that off?

You have people talking.

A lot.

Because talk is cheap.

Continue Reading “Cowboy Pete Watches Smallville Go Up and Away (with Spoilers; sorry, can’t be helped)” →

NBC has given a thirteen-episode pick up order for “Chuck.” I’d have been happier with a full twenty-two episode pick up, but I’ll take what I can get from the most consistently charming action/adventure series on television.

Although I still think they should’ve gotten Kate Jackson for Chuck’s mom. Still, I admit it is great seeing Linda Hamilton in action, plus I loved the little nudge/wink to T2 in the recent episode where her character killed time in a prison cell by doing chin-ups.

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A Brooklyn based Hasidic newspaper Der Tzitung ran the now instantly recognizable photo of Obama et al in the Situation Room, waiting to hear about the success of Operation Geronimo, and somehow thought that deleting Hillary Clinton from the picture wouldn’t be noticed. Clinton (along with the director of counterterrorism Audrey Tomason) were photoshopped out of the picture because, according to the editors, they never run pictures of women. Why? Because pictures of women make men think about sex.

Continue Reading “So…Should Hillary be Flattered About This?” →

I flew back on a redeye last Friday night from doing business in LA (working on another episode of “Young Justice”). I like redeyes. I can usually sleep on them, so the flight becomes effectively instantaneous and I don’t waste a whole day traveling.

On this particular flight, there was a mom with a a little boy, a little over a year old, seated directly behind me. He started crying from the moment they sat down.

And he didn’t…stop. Not through the opening announcements. Not through take off or travel. His voice penetrated my noise-killing earphones with ease.

He wasn’t in pain. He wasn’t hungry. He just didn’t want to sit still. At all. But the crew didn’t want him tearing up and down the aisle for obvious reasons.

And on the rare occasions when he did stop crying and I would start to drift asleep, he’d start kicking the back of my seat and wake me up. I didn’t say anything because I figured the mother had enough problems. And then at one point he stopped kicking my chair AND he was quiet, so I actually fell asleep. This lasted five minutes as I was violently awoken by the screaming match between the woman seated next to me and the boy’s mother because the kid had started kicking HER seatback and she chose not to take it in stride.

At the end of the flight, I gently suggested to the haggard mother the advantages of Children’s Dramamine before a lengthy night flight. She said wearily, “I tried it. It just made him MORE active.”

I shudder to think what THAT flight was like.

Feel free to use this space for your traveling horror stories.

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We just came back from seeing “Thor,” and it’s easily the best Marvel movie since “Iron Man.” Relatively spoiler free comments follow.

Continue Reading “Good God, Y’all” →

It’s “Star Wars” day.

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