This is pretty brilliant: I just hope they don't redub one of the sex scenes over Grover and Maria or something. "YOU ARE MY ROSE YOU ARE MY ROSE!"...' [...]
Both shows had been hit or miss in recent weeks, but "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "How I Met Your Mother" both had their best show of the season, by far, on Sunday and Monday. For 'Curb,' we can talk all... [...]
The last time the Twins got new uniforms, in 1987, they won the World Series, so that bodes well for their new duds, introduced this week. It all looks good, even though the home uniform doesn't look like it's changed....' [...]
I totally agree with this petition, being endorsed by soon-to-be-ex-lawyer Craig Calcaterra. Do we know that the video actually exists of the Dock Ellis Game? You'd think it would've surfaced by now, if so.... [...]
After over a year of hearing about it, I finally saw "The Room" this weekend. It was the first movie I watched on my new living room TV, bought earlier in the day, and it's safe to say the next... [...]
How did it not occur to me, until a friend pointed it out this weekend, that the Don Draper/Dick Whitman story on "Mad Men" is all but identical to the old Seymour Skinner/Armin Tamzarian arc on "The Simpsons"? How have... [...]
Was January Jones terrible on "Saturday Night Live" this week, or what? If she was planning to use that to propel herself into a Katherine Heigl-like career in romcoms, I foresee a problem. That Grace Kelly-farting bit might have been... [...]
The New York Times points out that word "douche" is suddenly being used all over prime-time television. A new level of permissiveness when it comes to vulgarity? Nah, I just think the word "douche" has become a lot more common... [...]
Charles Pierce reviews the Book of Basketball:After all, The Book Of Basketball is at the top of The New York Times bestseller list, and it already has done the world the great service of dumping from that spot Mitch Albom's...' [...]
Reformed right-wing loon Charles Johnson, in a revealing interview:National security is still an important issue. But the main reason I cant march along with the right wing blogosphere any more, not to put too fine a point on it, is... [...]
News Item: Buffalo Wild Wings special sparks violence in Brooklyn There's no food that's worth dying for, but buffalo wings come as close as anything. I'm just shocked that Minnesota-based Buffalo Wild Wings had penetrated the Northeast. Why no Philly...' [...]
I think Matt Osborne is onto something:I have decided to coin a phrase: Palin-Bachmann Syndrome, defined as the psychological imbalance produced by a toxic mix of right-wing identity politics and diva training. Palin-Bachmann Syndrome manifests in the following behaviors: rambling,... [...]
One of his best speeches: I haven't blogged at all about the Foot Hood massacre; it's clearly a horrible, horrible thing, and I don't have much to add. All I can say is, it's stupid to imply that the guy... [...]
I want to praise Marty Beckerman's outstanding article in Salon this week, in which he looks back in horror on his early-20s right-wing phase. I had one of those too- like Marty's, brought on by 9/11, and disgust with the...' [...]
Will Leitch has a very good piece about Bill Simmons' ascension to #1 on the New York Times best seller list and how it represents the culmination of a decade of changes in the sportswriting game. The best part:That Rick...' [...]
What a great, great finale to an excellent season. Sepinwall was right- it felt like a caper movie. And I don't believe all this whining about how the season "moved too slow"- the pace has always been one of the...' [...]
It's looking like third base is this year's version of last year's left field, in which there are a whole lot of free agents out there and not as many teams needing help at the position. The Twins and Phillies,... [...]
Because it would be so, so terrible if a shrieking, gleefully ignorant dolt with very little grasp of sports knowledge and much more interest in promotion of uneducated negativity - and interviews with strippers- were to no longer be on... [...]
You can tell this group is something way, way beyond typical Republicans or conservatives- it truly has a racist, Jew-baiting, Buchanite tinge to it. Elie Wiesel? What a left-wing hippie communist.... [...]
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cThe 11/3 Projectwww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis... [...]
News Item: Twins trade Carlos Gomez to Brewers for J.J. Hardy I love this trade. Love it. The Twins' biggest problem last year was a lack of production from every infield position except first base- so they've brought in a... [...]
The Rolling Stone writer takes aim at the Wicked Witch of Wasilla:This amazing gaffe reminded everyone of what we might have to look forward to in 2012, when the Republican Party may well nominate a woman who would lose at... [...]
I'm really glad Richard Sandomir wrote tihs NYT article this week about the ridiculous phenomenon of every single fan thinking the MLB playoff announcers are biased against their team. Sandomir points out that this is most often bullshit- and that...' [...]
Andrew Ferguson, on the critical cult of Bob Dylan, and his new Christmas album:Many of the notices about Christmas in the Heart have been pussyfooting. We should be clear: The record is not irony, or camp. This is not a... [...]
News Item: Phillies will not re-sign Brett Myers I've been comparing Brett to Kenny Powers for a long time, but now he apparently calls himself that too....' [...]
The Yankees won the 2009 World Series Tuesday, beating the Phillies 7-3 in Game 6 of the World Series. It's the Yanks' first title in nine years, and the first ever in the sixth year of the Jeter/A-Rod combination. They...' [...]
Sean Burns was one of the few critics who agreed with me about the downright creepiness of "This Is It," which he calls a "necrophiliac gravy train":He also looks awfulspindly and emaciated with distractingly gigantic hands and feet, peering out... [...]
Behold, the greatest speaker design in human history. If I wanted a review unit it's probably just a phone call away, but I wouldn't want to have those in the office, it's probably a sexual harassment complaint waiting to happen....' [...]
I spent the last couple of days in Los Angeles covering the Blu-Con, an industry conference on Blu-ray and its future, and I think I'm convinced- I'm going to go buy a Blu-ray player. Anyway, you can see my articles... [...]
And I can't stop laughing: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cClash of the Cretinswww.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis How dare they stereotype New York and Philly fans- who seem driven to live up...' [...]
- I don't want to hear about how Tuesday's election was a "mandate on Obama," a rebuke to Obama, the beginning of the end of his administration, or anything like that- It's two governors' races and one Congressional race, both... [...]
Congrats to Craig Calcaterra, the world's greatest baseball-blogging lawyer, who has chosen to give up the law and blog about baseball full time. I'll bet about 50 percent of the lawyers in this country would do the same thing if...' [...]
Let me speak out once again against airlines- I'm looking in your direction, US Air- who charge for checking bags. I had three flights this week, and the same thing happened on all three: Everyone carried their suitcases on the...' [...]
I'm heading out to the West Coast Monday for a brief business trip to a conference, where the keynote speaker happens to be a certain noted filmmaker. But when I see him, this will NOT be my reaction:...' [...]
I had a hell of a sports day Sunday- to the Linc for Eagles-Giants, to the bar for Vikings-Packers, and home for Phillies-Yankees in Game 4. Let's take 'em one by one: All year long, as with every year, the...' [...]
Joe Posnanski:Of course, this was the situation when Derek Jeter decided to bunt in Game 2 of the World Series. Nobody out. Two on. Two strikes. Yankees ahead two runs. Jeter would later admit in his own understated way that... [...]
Jonathan Chait on J Street and its left flank:J Street aspires to be a politically influential group that challenges AIPAC for the loyalty of the Jewish mainstream. An organization representing Jewish anti-Zionists would have about as much clout as a... [...]
Well, the Phillies lost Game 2 to the Yankees, although a split in Yankee Stadium isn't the worst outcome in the world for the Fightins. And remember- in each of the first two series, the Phils won Game 1, lost...' [...]
I got Bill Simmons' book and plan to start reading it next week- even though the line was too long and I ended up leaving his book signing early the other night- and I've enjoyed the media blitz. Here's his... [...]
Attention "South Park"- now THAT's how you do a wrestling parody! "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" continued its stellar recent run with an episode that paid tribute to all sorts of obscure wrestling stuff, from the Fabulous Freebirds to Philly's...' [...]
Some of the best anti-Fox stuff ever, from Jon Stewart: The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cFor Fox Sake!www.thedailyshow.comDaily Show Full EpisodesPolitical HumorHealth Care Crisis "The Daily Show" has gone seamlessly from a primarily anti-Bush/Cheney show... [...]
Sometimes his non-political stuff is best of all: The Colbert ReportMon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30cThreatDown - Halloween Editionwww.colbertnation.comColbert Report Full EpisodesPolitical HumorReligion... [...]
From the people who brought you "Fans give McNabb three-week deadline to win Super Bowl":Phillies Hope To End 364-Day World Series Drought PHILADELPHIAThe last time the Philadelphia Phillies brought a World Series title back to the City of Brotherly Love,... [...]
I like this idea from New Jersey governor candidate Chris Daggett, hiring actors to imitate his two opponents, Jon Corzine and Chris Christie... Except, he appears to have stolen the idea from Vince McMahon's old "Billionaire Ted" skits, with the... [...]
Paul Waldman: From the early morning fun on Fox & Friends (just as right-wing as the rest of the network but so insipid it makes Jackass look like a meeting of the Oxford Union), to the cheerleading for unfettered capitalism... [...]
Strange doings tonight- it was reported that former Vikings safety Orlando Thomas, who has ALS, had died- but then his agent and friends chimed in with the news that Thomas is alive, after all. No idea how that happened. Mark... [...]
The biggest story in the days leading up to the Yankees-Phillies World Series has been trash talk between the respective fan bases, most of which, I'm sure, has been sprinkled with the phrase "you think you're better than me"? I... [...]
Howard Eskin, the other day, spent an entire hour bitching about... what Michael Vick was wearing when he addressed Philadelphia schoolkids that morning. I missed the beginning, but Eskin was arguing that Vick should've been dressed in a more dignified...' [...]
What a great performance by the president. He sounded forceful and confident on health care, in a way he didn't for all of August. He described the plan in detail, in a way that he hadn't before, and wasn't afraid...' [...]
A great column by Jonathan Chait on the trouble with "centrist compromises":The fetishization of compromise often overlooks whether such a compromise makes any inherent sense. Not all issues lend themselves to compromise. Joe Lieberman recently piped up that he prefers... [...]
He's back! And he introduced a cool-looking line of new iPods, and some other bells and whistles as well- (Madden for the iPhone!) Here's E-Gear's writeup. Here's what I don't get- there's so much interest in these Apple events, so...' [...]
Michael Kinsley attacks the fact-checking profession:The fad for elaborate and abject corrections, and factual accuracy in general, is based on the misperception that when people complain about the media getting it all wrong, what bothers them is that the newspaper... [...]
On the AV Club, Chuck Klosterman reviews the new Beatles remastered set, only in doing so he pretends to be a complete moron who knows nothing about the band. Great stuff. And speaking of Chuck, check out the wonderful FakeKlosterman... [...]
What's the most underrated moment in sports? The stadium implosion, of course! Here's a YouTube slideshow of some of the more memorable ones. The Vet: That'll happen to the Metrodome within a few years, I'm sure. Speaking of which, Scott... [...]
Balloon Juice, on this story that New Jersey gubernatorial candidate Chris Christie once got away with hitting someone with his car without charges being filed:I love stories like this because they get to the heart of what a fucked up... [...]
My parents ran into Al Franken at the Minnesota State Fair last week; this discussion, which if you ask me is the right way to handle discussion about health care, apparently ensued not long after:... [...]
On the Jones thing, I defer to Conor Friedersdorf:Oh Van Jones, your past is so absurd that youve managed to align Glenn Beck and mainstream opinion! Is the Obama Administration unaware that a frighteningly large minority of citizens imagine that... [...]
Amid my latest electronics retail crime update- lots of iPod and iPhone theft this week- is the story of one of my neighbors. A guy who lives about a mile away from me in Broomall was arrested for shoplifting from... [...]
This tumblr-style blog from the iSportacus guys had me laughing for several minutes. Though it's not appreciably different from what WIP does with a straight face every day. It's the best thing of its kind since Obama is Literally Hitler.... [...]
Brian Lowry of Variety, on "All About Steve":Coopers character proves utterly bland, and [Thomas Haden] Churchs take on the unctuous news guy makes you wonder if hed rather jump back a couple of movies, transform into sand and quietly ooze... [...]
You have to be this guy. Still, way to go Joe. Mika must be a good influence. Obama's back-to-school message to kids is "socialist indoctrination"? Really, GOP?... [...]
I got a press release yesterday advertising a new documentary film called "Twilight in Forks." It took me a minute to remember that the town in "Twilight" is called Forks and that that's what the movie is about; my first... [...]
Bill Simmons writes his first Vegas column in years. My favorite part:When I used to fly to Sin City, it always gave me a rush when my plane descended and we could glimpse the casinos for the first time. (For... [...]
News Item: Curt Schilling considering Senate run I expect this formula- ex-athlete from the state running for office as a Republican, even though he's clearly not up to it- working about as well as it did for Lynn Swann in... [...]
