Mr. Kinsley

Finally, we're back on topic.

I agree. You should work for a newspaper or something.

I don't see how Bill Clinton figures into this at all. Papers report allegations all the time. That's why they always use the term 'allegedly.' The Statesman isn't saying he did it (with 8 different men), just that 8 men accuse him of lying about his actions and deliberately eroding the rights of a group that he himself is secretly a member of. If his votes are a way of covering his ass (pardon the pun) then it is beyond reprehensible. The Statesman spent months checking out the story and apparantly could only get half the people involved to go on the record. That probably has something to d

He has ten albums?!?!?! Daaaaaang. I thought he was on #2. He sounds like an interesting guy - the type you don't want to just go see play, but rather go out to an all-night diner with in a small group with after the show for pie and coffee and pick his brain for a while. I've never actually seen what he looks like, but I'm guessing this is where the ladies start fighting over what happens with whom after the diner.

"...encounters involving the conservative Republican, who opposes same-sex marriage and has a strong record against gay rights." I don't see anything contradictory there. He doesn't want gays to be able to marry, just to do him in the bathroom stall. If they all settled down and adopted babies, where would that leave Larry? He'd be stuck in the airport bathroom with a boner for weeks on end.

Show-off. (Actually, that was pretty cool!)

Slight correction to my previous statement: the OKC bombers were avenging the Waco/Ruby Ridge (vast left-wing conspiracy) incidents.

Yeah, I remember OKC. If I recall correctly everyone assumed immediately that it must have been middle eastern terrorists. In actuallity it was McVeigh and Nichols, part of a radical right-wing militia group that aimed to overthrow the government. So, yeah... vast right-wing conspiracy sounds about right.

The cool thing about seeing Wilco in Australia is that the set lists run backwards.

Oh, man! He was my absolute hero growing up. I had the red, white and blue versions of the toy - which I stupidly got rid of in HS. I even had some comic books. Hmm, wonder if they're still in my (very small) collection? Thanks for the memories EK. Try not to break anything jumping the pearly gates.

Not vast, just one nut-job. Do you really think said person taking the hostages is liberal or 'declined to state'?

I am not a shrubbery!!

At the event planned for here in LA we get Barack, a bunch of movie stars, and special musical guest Ne-Yo.

The Axl Rose one was brutally hillarious. I can totally imagine him stomping around his house all pissed off after getting this in the mail, his stupid cornrows bouncing around as he jumps up and down on the letter, change flying everywhere.

The bit in the bathroom in the first Austin Powers movie where Tom Arnold (the only time I've ever seen him be authentically funny) as a Texas oilman, or such, is in the stall next to Austin and thinks the battle happening in there is Austin trying to take a large dump. Also, in Summer School with Mark Harmon and Rae Dawn Chong when she finally passes the driving test. It's the only funny thing in the whole movie, but damn if it wasn't hysterical. I haven't seen it in so long it might seem lame now. EDIT: I just you tube'd it. It was super lame. No link - I wouldn't do that to you.

And we all know that lobbyists get all the really hot male escorts. [insert Estrada smiley]

Orson Welles - actor, director, writer, winery spokesman, and willing to place bets that hinge on the rules of english grammar with sexual favors at stake. A renaissance man if ever there was one.

Whenever I think of Trent Lott I think of a few days after 9/11 how he said something to the effect of, 'This is a terrible tragedy, but if there is one tiny little silver lining in all of it we'll now be able to do some things that we've wanted to do for a very long time.' All this time I thought he meant the Patriot Act and warrantless wiretapping, but he really meant hot man-on-man action. Or, in senate terminology, "wiretapping." But yeah Jorge, I don't really buy it yet either... but it reeeeeally wouldn't surprise me.

Correct. I find them overhyped. All there songs sound like marching music to me. I was in first place in the 1986 Orange County Track and Field Championships - for about a half hour. It took a while for the really good vaulters to start, but damn if that wasn't a glorious thirty minutes! And yes, if my ears were a lot bigger I could probably fly.

Unless that's a typo, I call false. Here's mine: 1) I can wiggle my ears. 2) My favorite band is actually Arcade Fire. 3) For a period of time I was the top HS pole vaulter in Orange County.

I think the real issue here is that, despite a large % that EL Famous* was talking about, there is a sizeable population of the Muslim world that will settle for nothing less than a totally Islamist world. Period. All infidels must die. Why would they punish terrorists when that, in the minds of some, is the most honorable way to die? Places like Sudan and Palestine, where poverty and a lack of education are the norm, probably have a higher % of people that feel this way. Other places that are better off, not as much. But my point is, after all the hubbub about Salman Rushdie and that one ca

Cool. I don't know what it is, but with that many buttons and knobs it has to be cool! Since the Amazon shipping wouldn't give mrs. k a discount without ordering just one more thing, I convinced her to get UT's March 16-20 for my stocking.

I'm sorry, but if you're that teacher, you gotta know better. The project should have been, "Hey kids! Let's come up with any name for the teddy bear... that isn't Mohammed! May I suggest something that your machete-weilding relatives might enjoy, like 'Jesus Schmezus' or 'Buddha has an outie.'"

We just got the twins tricycles yesterday for Christmas. Doesn't matter what else I get - I'll be too exhausted for it. (I do have Glenn Kotche's Mobile on my list, which should be excellent to unwind to.)

For some reason I read the title as "anodyne seen the mist" My first two thoughts were a) shouldn't this be in Just a Fan? and b ) who takes their UT albums to a movie? NOTE: if you try to type a lowercase b and a parenthesis right after it, it automatically gives you