Memento Mori: Bernie Mac

Bernard Jeffrey McCollough 1957 - 2008

He was the proof that inside the most cantankerous of curmudgeons there beat the heart of the most powerful of romantics.

Thanks for great laughs, Bernie.

Morford: Thank you, George W. Bush

Meander: No, really. Read forward...

Maybe Bush's brand of frighteningly inept politicking has been just the right kind of sociocultural emetic to induce a true purge of our congested system, just the thing to finally snap us out of our lethargy. Hell, sometimes you gotta go deep into the darkness to realize just how much you need the light.

So thank you, George, for exemplifying and embodying everything that's wrong with the neocon agenda, for serving as the final death knell of the failed conservative movement, of a once-noble Republican Party that's run out of ideas and has turned bitter and nasty and paranoid...

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Comedy gold

WalMarts across the country have devoted ACRES of floorspace to products with pictures of Hannah Montana.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

edit 11/10/2008 - I corrected the link...Nyah.

Just Because

Mary Louise Parker's Nude Weeds Ad:

Just because it's so very cute.

I run hot and cold on Ms. Parker -- loved her in "Boys On The Side" and adored her on "The West Wing" and hated her in "Angels In America" (too whiny).


Wolcott on 'Damages':

...Of American actresses, Glenn Close brandishes the same lack of sentimentality with an even more stainless steel gleam. Where Mirren looks as if she's been through the sexy wringer, Close looks more crisply tailored and hair-brushed with each new incarnation, her superhotshot lawyer in FX's Damages a human slingshot of lean calculation. Containing zero calories of sentimentality ("Never have kids," she tells the firm's latest doe-eyed hire, played by Rose Byrne), Close's Patty executes everything with ruthless exactitude: if Patty and Meryl Streep's Miranda Priestly ever raced for the same waiting limo, they'd be peeling Miranda off the sidewalk like a pancake...