Glenn Beck: Plagiarist

I thought I had posted this before, but I couldn't find it. This is Dave Foley (with a brief appearance by Kevin McDonald) of Kids in the Hall in a sketch circa 1990.

One must assume that a young and impressionable Glenn Beck (assuming he wasn't wasted on vicodin and gin at the time) internalized this awesomely paranoid, fear-mongering persona and later regurgitated it as his own.



A few weeks ago, Keith Olbermann had Foley on his show to comment on the sketch and its similarities to Beck's wackadoo persona.

magnets: WTF, yo?

Hot on the heels of this post re: Insane Clown Posse and their puzzlement with, well with pretty much everything, one of my recent favorite sites, fakescience posted this gem the other day.


Check them out--they are hilarious.

pat buchanan is not a nazi anti-semite.

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Probably not anyway. He just thinks there would be too many Jews on the Supreme Court if Kagan is confirmed.

Thanks for straightening that out for us, Pat.

If Kagan is confirmed, Jews, who represent less than 2 percent of the U.S. population, will have 33 percent of the Supreme Court seats.

Is this the Democrats' idea of diversity?

Also, Pat Bormann--er, I mean Buchanan--gives us a handy-dandy race calculator so we can parse the color and ethnicity of recent Justices:

Not since Thurgood Marshall, 43 years ago, has a Democratic president chosen an African-American. The lone sitting black justice is Clarence Thomas, nominated by George H. W. Bush. And Thomas was made to run a gauntlet by Senate liberals.

Indeed, of the last seven justices nominated by Democrats JFK, LBJ, Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, one was black, Marshall; one was Puerto Rican, Sonia Sotomayor. The other five were Jews: Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Bader Ginsberg, Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan.

Once again, thanks, Pat! Whew--hardly a privileged white male in the bunch! Now we know why this country has been going off the rails for so long: the Coloreds, the Puerto Rickans and the dang Jews!

What's next? Will white straight men of privilege be forced to wear gold W's on their chests?

Poor, poor WASPys. Sucks being a minority, don't it?


This photo is not shopped in any way. This is Pat innocently waving to a friend while attending a neighborhood watch meeting.

now that's acting

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Sir Ian McKellan, still in costume for a production of 'Waiting for Godot' was taking a break from rehearsal outside a stage door at a theater in Melbourne, Australia. He is shown here being given a dollar by a kindly passer-by.

"During the dress rehearsal of Godot, I crouched by the stage door of the Comedy Theatre, getting some air, my bowler hat at my feet (and) seeing an unkempt old man down on his luck, a passer-by said, 'Need some help, brother?' and put a dollar in my hat."

He says he saved the dollar in his dressing room as a 'lucky talisman.'

pop-culture tell-all books

Cracked had one of their photoshop contests in which people were invited to create book covers for tell-all books as written by pop culture and fictional characters. Here's some of my favorites but more at the link below.

(And yes, sarah palin is clearly a fictional character.)





more here: cracked.

running is the shiz-nit

Following a tech week fraught with more than the usual amount of excess drama, an incandescent after-party following the opening of ‘Shining City’ on Saturday night, then a brutal, largely immobile Sunday, the sounds of the NBA playoffs on the TV broken only by low moans and my feeble, whimpering pleas for some merciful god or other to grant me the sweet release of death, I vowed to excise the twin toxins of Aggravation and Alcohol from my body today with a run.

Now, given the self-abuse (and not the fun, spanky, Biblical kind either) that I’ve endured over the past week, I wasn’t counting on much, especially given that I am just coming off a 6-8 week layoff from running prescribed by an orthopedic surgeon.

(Sidebar: I went in and told him my knee was fucked up, and that I was running a lot. His diagnosis in paraphrase: ‘Dude, your knee is fucked up. You’re running too much. Take some time off.’ So long $400.)

But at any rate, he did tell me it was a cartilage problem likely due to the impact of running, and that time would take care of it, so at least it wasn’t anything more serious. So, last week I did a trial run/walk (not trail, trial) of about 2 miles that went pretty well, despite my legs and lungs not being all that excited about the entire proposition.

And today, given the excesses of the last week, I was really only hoping for a mile or two, punctuated with much walking (and likely some more moaning and whimpering, to be truthful.)

But people, let me tell you, I knocked out 3.5 miles or so of the finest running I’ve done in months. And the capper: NO KNEE PAIN WHATSOEVER!!!

Sorry; I know this is the pinnacle of lame, narcissistic blogging--perhaps aside from the people who FB about recent meals...I mean, WTF? Are you going to tell us about the result of said meals in 24-36 hours too? Consistency? Color? Firmness? I don’t really care about either end of your digestive tract.

But anyway.

It makes me so goddamn happy when I can run--the buzz afterwards anyway. It’s downright vital to my mental well-being. The rest of the afternoon I was grinning from ear-to-ear, flirting with women in Safeway, chatting up neighbors, etc. I’m a goddamn ball of frickin’ sunshine, I tells ya. Misanthropic Kurt loses some of his power when I can run.

Thanks for tolerating this self-indulgent crapola, but I’m really just so stoked that I don’t care how stupid this might sound to some.

Peace. :)

small minds

oh snap, Eleanor!

sooty, you're my hero too.

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fake science

This is from a tumblerblog called Fake Science. They create 'educational' posters to fake-explain science concepts that are too hard. :)





Many more at fakescience.

bad days

To paraphrase Tom Waits:

I knew a guy once who had a bad day, and he just ignored it. Figured it would go away on its own. But the problem with bad days is they're like weeds. You get one, then up sprout another and another--and before you know it you've got a bad week. Ignore them a little longer, and suddenly you're in a bad month. String a few of those together and, well, you've got yourself a bad year, brother. And nobody wants that. So the only thing to do with a bad day is you gotta choke it, you just choke that sumbitch right down to nothing. Stomp and grind it right back down to where it came from before it gets out of hand.

florida: tropical paradise? or america's wang?

Hot on the fabulous high heels of this story, another cautionary tale demonstrating the growing body of evidence that the loudest anti-gay activists are the most closeted, now we hear tell that Florida's legislature was unable to pass an anti-bestiality law.

So, what up Florida? Are y'all just a bunch of freaky-deaky, self-hating sex weirdos?

As Vic Chesnutt says:

Florida, Florida
It's the redneck riviera
Florida, Florida
There's no more pathetic place
In America.



Discuss.

ADDENDUM: Turns out the above-mentioned rentboy is talking to the press. His client, Mr. Rekers was apparently a fan of something called 'the long stroke.'

I don't want to know either.

juggalos make me laugh

All of these seem to have stemmed from Insane Clown Posse's unintentionally hilarious new video, here.

Insane Clown Posse - Miracles - watch more funny videos

In addition to being amazed at the miracle of magnets and giraffes...well, just watch it. If you can.

Now it really gets funny when you see things like this. (Both vids via funnyordie.)

Juggalo News - watch more funny videos

And I also learned a lot from this Cracked piece, a Juggalo text book.



Enjoy all of the above with a Faygo.

art history

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zombie awareness month

Did you know that May is Zombie Awareness Month? We must remain ever-vigilant, people.

Gray Ribbon

Supporters of Zombie Awareness Month wear a gray ribbon to signify the undead shadows that lurk behind our modern light of day. From May 1 through May 31, Zombie Research Society Members and friends take this small step to acknowledge the coming danger.

pick two

yeah. pretty much says it all.