'TBH Politoons'
Reader Comment
Bernard Goldberg IS a Weinie
Goldberg said in his stupid book that ANNA NICOLE SMITH is a danger to America.
ANNA NICOLE SMITH? How so? Is she going to deplete the supply of silicone?
Anna Nicole has a column in one of the tabloids and she mentioned this.
Pretty bad when even Anna Nicole Smith thinks you're a weinie!
Terry C
NJ
Thanks, Terry!
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Arianna Huffington: 'The war comes to Crawford, the president disconnects' (The Huffington Post)
Show us you're willing to make a sacrifice in a time of war, Mr. President -- even if that just means cutting your vacation a little short. Those of us who are mindful of what is really going on around us -- not to mention several thousand miles away in Iraq -- will appreciate the crispness of that decision.
Dan Simpson: Grim and grimmer (post-gazette.com)
Stop our national deficit spending. I think we stop it by ending the war, now costing at least $5 billion a month. But say you think the war is justified, then cut other spending, thus actually putting the United States on a war footing, making the point to all Americans that the country is, in fact, at war.
Rachel Corbett: Women's Bookstores: A Dying Breed (Women's eNews. Posted on Alternet)
As feminist bookstores disappear, so do the intellectual community centers they once provided for women.
The American Psychiatric Association: The real meaning of "ex-gay" (advocate.com)
Although "transformational ministry" promotes the message that religious faith and acceptance of gay, lesbian, and bisexual sexuality are incompatible, that message is countered by the large number of outspoken clergy and people of faith who promote love and acceptance.
Gregg Shapiro: Interview with Lesléa Newman (afterellen.com)
... in 1999, I was invited back to my own high school, Jericho High School on Long Island, (where) I was inducted into their Hall of Fame. They did not tell the students that I was a gay writer, they just said I was a writer, and they didn't tell them anything about what I had written, so I wound up coming out to 300 high school students during an assembly.
Sean Gonsalves: Local Fighters Usually Win (AlterNet)
Those who cannot remember the past are not necessarily condemned to repeat it.
Annalee Newitz: What is Evil? (AlterNet)
Fantasy authors JK Rowling and Jacqueline Carey have written new novels about magical realms that are, ironically, more realistic than many US newscasts.
Cartoon: Teenagers and Cosmetic Surgery
Cartoon: The Iraq War Memorial
Leslea Newman: Writer
Reader Comment
Re: Bruce's Reccomended Reading
Marty
I read this item with a chuckle !
"David Bruce: Wise Up: Alcohol (athensnews.com)
Some advertisements can be too effective. The ads for Bert and Harry Piel beer were so funny that customers rushed to buy the beer, but after tasting it, they hated the beer so much they never bought it again."
In the seventies when kids were collecting trading beer cans and hanging them in a display, my youngest son was an avid collector. We drove from Butler, PA to Grafton, MA, and I felt that we had stopped at every little store that sold beer so that he could 'buy just one can'. Sometimes they wouldn't sell just one can, and we ended up getting a six pack.
When we got to Grafton, we had to get a six pack of Piels. I told him that it was OK, that I would drink it. Well, it was the most god-awful beer I have ever tasted. The killer was that the Piels were friends of my Mom and Dad. I took five cans back to Pgh with us, and presented them to my Dad. He said, "They may be friends, but they sure don't know how to make beer!"
For years we had 4 cans of Piels. I don't remember just what my son did with his collection . . . passed it on to someone. Hope they enjoyed the Piels!
MAM 
Thanks, Marianne!
I remember the Christmas when dear old Dad was given a case of
Old Frothingslosh as a gag.
He's not much of a beer drinker, but his dad was a
Straub's man.
A Straub fan who colorfully bitched about any other beer (while never refusing one).
Purple Gene Reviews
Bill Maher on Bill O'Reilly
Purple Gene's review of Bill Maher on Bill O'Reilly's FOX show the "Factor" 8/17/05:
I decided to break my code of ethics and turn on the FOX's "phony cacophony" tabloid news channel and cringe my way through Bill O'Reilly's show the "Factor" because Bill Maher was going to be the guest………..to begin with, Bill O'Reilly has to be the most arrogant asshole in the universe….he is consumed with the sound of his bullying bravado!
After delightfully bashing what he calls the "Looney Left" (Bill Moyers, Michael Moore, Arianna Huffington and his soon to be guest Bill Maher), Big Bad Bill "O" says "Cindy Sheehan's behavior borders on treason" and proceeds to trash a supporter for going to Crawford, Texas to visit the grieving mother. My skin always crawls when I watch this cocksucker crow….my wife can hear me swearing at the television from the other room….but tonight I have a purpose for this torture….Bill Maher is going to come on the show and give O'Reilly a little "John Stewart on Tucker Carlson" style come-uppance ….or so I hoped…..
Bill Maher has an interesting rap sheet…..A Jersey boy with a Jewish mother and a Catholic dad, he graduated from Cornell with a B.A…..went to New York and did stand up comedy and "Catch a Rising Star" fame. Steve Allen got him on Carson and Letterman. Maher has a hilarious history of movie roles as well: He was Elmo Bunn in "Pizza Man", a party guest in "Ratboy", Jim in "Cannibal Women in the Avocado Jungle of Death", Jim (again) in "Bimbo Movie Bash" and Bill in "Inside the Playboy Mansion" (with Julie Strain and Shannon Tweed)! He became "Playboy" Bill the bachelor when he got his key to "Hef's Whore House" and most recently was sued by Nancy "Coco" Johnsen (his live in love) for not providing her "marriage, children and a house" as promised! Oh Bill - you bad boy!
Well Mister Maher hit his stride when he hosted the controversial Network show "Politically Incorrect" from which he got canned after remarks about the 9/11 plane flying terrorists "not being cowards"! So HBO gave him a no holds barred cable show called "Real Time with Bill Maher" on which he could say "Fuck You"…..I must say, I lived to see who Bill would have on his show…Ann Coulter….Alex Baldwin…Jane Fonda….Bill O'Reilly ??????????
Tonight Bill Maher is going to give it to Bill O'Reilly….after 45 minutes of disgusting delusional diatribe, finally……Bill Maher….looking like a meek, bemused monkey….B. O. challenges B.M. "You're not hanging out with the "Looney Left" are you?????" I like you B.M. ….but you're siding with all those "Nuts"!" B.O. continues to taunt B.M. but B.M. turns to shit right before my eyes…."You have a very successful show here on FOX" says B.M. "good production"! Jesus Christ Maher, can't you just say "Fuck you B.O."?????? What a huge colossal disappointment …softball Bill gets punked……If Bill O'Reilly is a Jingoistic Jackal, then Bill Maher just became the Jackal's Lackey!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Purple Gene gives Bill Maher 2 rusty "Playboy Mansion" keys out of 10 for being so shallow and such a "Pussy" ….(by the way, watch "Real Time with Bill Maher" tonight (8/19) with Chris Rock, Kellyanne Conway, Asa Hutchinson and, via satellite, Cindy Sheehan - maybe Bill will get his balls back before air time!)
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Still cooler than seasonal.
All of the kid's birdfeeder sunflower seeds in Dixie cups have sprouted.
Was reading a Canadian site the other night and came across the food term 'peach sticks,' but they offered no clue as to what is a 'peach stick'.
Tried google, Kraft foods Canadian site, and what used to be 'SOAR', but haven't found any answers. Anybody know what a 'peach stick' is?
3 New Episodes Added
'Mind of Mencia'
Comedy Central has extended the first-season order of "Mind of Mencia," starring Latino comic Carlos Mencia.
Three new episodes have been stacked on top of the original order of 10, bringing its run to a close September 28. "Mencia" has averaged 1.4 million total viewers to date.
'Mind of Mencia'
New U.S. Citizen
Margot Kidder
Actress Margot Kidder became a U.S. citizen Wednesday to avoid possible deportation to her native Canada when she begins protesting the war in Iraq, she said.
Kidder, best known for playing Lois Lane in the 1978 movie Superman and three sequels, was among 19 people who became citizens during a naturalization ceremony in Butte federal court.
"It means I can vote against anyone and everyone in elected office that in any way supported the Bush administration," said Kidder, 56, who has lived in the United States for 34 years and has a residence in Livingston, Mont.
Kidder said in an interview after the ceremony that her sole motivation was to protest the war in Iraq. She also criticized the Gulf War in the 1990s.
Margot Kidder
Narrating AMC Documentary Series
Jeff Goldblum
Jeff Goldblum has signed on to narrate the first nine episodes of AMC's new original series "Movies That Shook the World," which premieres at 10 p.m. September 9.
Other confirmed participants in the series include director Spike Lee, actor Willem Dafoe, commentator Al Franken, rock musician David Crosby, former Paramount Pictures chief Sherry Lansing and film critic Roger Ebert.
Jeff Goldblum
Head to Woody Creek
Thompson's Ashes
Hunter S. Thompson's cremated remains, mixed with fireworks and packed into 34 mortar tubes, were en route to Woody Creek Wednesday.
The unusual shipment from New Castle, Pa., via padlocked truck is one of the final steps towards a funeral Saturday expected to mix solemnity with pageantry.
Thompson's only son, Juan Thompson, stresses the respectful tone he wants to strike, but acknowledges that his father's funeral wishes were unusual. Based on Hunter Thompson's comments in a 1978 BBC documentary, fireworks launchers will arc his ashes from a 153-foot structure capped by a double-thumbed, red Fiberglas fist.
The ashes wrapped in brown craft paper - similar to a supermarket bag but smoother - are set to fly at sunset, according to Marcy Zambelli, spokeswoman for the prominent fireworks company that bears her family name and will handle the display.
The Thompson family stresses that the gathering is a closed-door affair only for invited family and close friends.
Thompson's Ashes
Ahnold's Helmet Master
Gigi Goyette
Gigi Goyette, the woman at the center of Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's hush-money sex scandal, appears to be trying to re-enter his good graces. Unfortunately for her, a little-known documentary and her loose-lipped friends are making her backpedaling a bit difficult.
Following reports that she was paid $20,000 by American Media for exclusive rights to her story two days before Arnold announced his candidacy in 2003, Goyette appeared on Inside Edition Tuesday night to declare, "Not only am I not his mistress, I didn't come forward. Nobody has ever come to me to get my exclusive story."
Goyette, a 46-year-old single mother, went on to charge that 90 percent of the 2001 National Enquirer front-page story that outed her as Schwarzenegger's undercover lover was false. But if that's true, she has no one but herself to blame.
According to a source close to Goyette, the perennially cash-strapped aspiring actress sold the story to the Enquirer herself for about $25,000 after she had a falling out with Schwarzenegger over a car he had given her. (Apparently, when she went to register the "previously owned" vehicle, she learned the previous owner was one of his other mistresses.)
Goyette also told a drastically different story about her relationship with her onetime bodybuilding mentor in a 2004 BBC documentary called Made in Britain: the Real Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Describing her relationship with Arnold, Goyette tells the interviewer, "it could be oral sex, it could be whatever…. It could be standing on my head and getting head." She adds that, "any stressed-out man in [Arnold's] position-and his wife wasn't there to relieve him-you know, will get Gigi. You know, 'She's the helmet master, get her over here.' You know, 'Call Gigi.'"
For more & a video clip, too - Gigi Goyette
Katherine Harris Who?
Joe Scarborough
Congressman turned political talk show host Joe Scarborough has a choice to make: renew his contract with NBC or challenge Katherine Harris for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate.
Scarborough, who spent seven years in Congress, said Republican leaders are concerned about Harris' electability because of the role she played in the 2000 presidential recount. She was Florida's secretary of state then, and Democrats say she fought recounts that could have jeopardized President Bush's 537-vote victory.
Scarborough, 41, resigned from Congress four years ago to spend more time with his sons. One son heads to college this fall, the other is 14, and Scarborough said they and his wife ultimately have veto power over his decision.
Since he left Congress, Scarborough has been a conservative voice on MSGOP's "Scarborough Country" and has hosted a radio show.
Joe Scarborough
Just Call Him Diddy
Sean Combs
P. Diddy wants to get closer to you. And something was getting in the way. Namely, the P. in front of the Diddy. So from now on, just call him Diddy, please.
Diddy - whose monikers have included Puff, Puff Daddy and Puffy, says Diddy is "a little bit more personal. I've let down my guard. I'm fully exposed. We are going to have a lot of fun with it. It is the return of hip-hop, rock 'n' roll superstars and they call them Diddy. I'm going to start talking in the third person everything."
Sean Combs
In Rehab
Eminem
Eminem is undergoing treatment for dependency to sleep medication, his publicist said Thursday, two days after the Grammy-winning rapper canceled his European tour citing exhaustion.
In a brief statement, Dennis Dennehy said Eminem, whose real name is Marshall Mathers III, "is in the hospital under doctors' care."
Eminem
Calls for End to Gay Bashing
Kanye West
Kanye West says "gay" has become an antonym to hip-hop - and that it needs to be stopped.
During an interview for an MTV special, the 27-year-old rapper launched into a discussion about hip-hop and homosexuality while talking about "Hey Mama," a song on his upcoming album, "Late Registration."
West says hip-hop was always about "speaking your mind and about breaking down barriers, but everyone in hip-hop discriminates against gay people." He adds that in slang, gay is "the opposite, the exact opposite word of hip-hop."
Kanye's message: "Not just hip-hop, but America just discriminates. And I wanna just, to come on TV and just tell my rappers, just tell my friends, `Yo, stop it.'"
Kanye West
Burning Man Crime & The Internets
Bad Clown
His clown face was deceiving.
Instead of bringing smiles to his fellow Burning Man revelers last year, Johnny Goodman, painted face and all, consumed too much alcohol, grabbed Dennis Hinkamp's bicycle and assaulted him so severely that he had to have two plates implanted into his arm.
Then the clown disappeared into the crowds of costumes, masks and exotic disguises that are the hallmark of the annual gathering on the Black Rock Desert north of Gerlach.
Eager to bring this runaway harlequin to justice, Hinkamp's friends launched an elaborate Internet search based on pieces of information they had gathered, including that the attacker was a member of a group called Anarchoclowns.
Goodman eventually confessed and was sentenced Tuesday in Pershing County to one count of conspiracy to commit theft, a gross misdemeanor, District Attorney Jim Shirley said.
For the rest, Bad Clown
EJ2E
Thanks, Ed!
Personal Ad in Cornfield
Pieter DeHond
It sounds a little corny. A farmer looking for love has planted a personals ad, using corn stalks in a cow pasture. It reads: "S.W.F Got-2 (love symbol) Farm'n." Underneath is a 1,000-foot-long arrow pointing single white females to his house.
"It only took me about an hour - I did it with a corn planter in May," Pieter DeHond said Wednesday as he removed weeds from the 18-acre field. "I was just horsing around."
In place of a newspaper ad, DeHond said he decided on an impulse to use up the extra corn seed left after spring planting at his 200-acre Pleasure Acres farm in western New York.
"I wouldn't place a personal ad in the paper. To me it seems desperate," he added, laughing. "This is more of a fun thing. I put this out in a field where nobody could see it unless you flew over it."
Pieter DeHond
Grendel's Mother In 'Beowulf'
Angelina Jolie
Angelina Jolie will star in "Beowulf," a big-budget film based on the old story of a Scandinavian hero who slays a beast.
Robert Zemeckis will direct the film, which also stars Ray Winstone and Crispin Glover. As with Zemeckis' last release, "The Polar Express," "Beowulf" will use "performance-capture" technology, which transforms the actors into computer-animated versions of themselves.
Winstone ("Sexy Beast") will play the title character and will be joined by Glover as Grendel and Jolie as Grendel's mother. The maternal role is becoming a habit for Jolie: she played Colin Farrell's mother in "Alexander."
Rounding out the cast are Anthony Hopkins, Robin Wright Penn, John Malkovich, Alison Lohman and Brendan Gleeson.
Angelina Jolie
Football League Sparks Controversy
Snoop Dogg
Snoop Dogg's new youth football league is drawing corporate endorsements, talented coaches - and catcalls from long-established teams that are losing players to the entertainer's latest project.
Two years ago, Snoop began coaching his son's team in the Orange County Junior All-American Football Conference, luring children from other squads with his star power. Players watched game video inside a tricked-out school bus equipped with DVD players, TV screens and a booming sound system.
The rapper and sometime actor also made personal phone calls to draw in top talent, and last year his Rowland Raiders went undefeated en route to a league championship. They also went on to win the "Snooperbowl," held a day before the Super Bowl, and took home custom-made trophies donated by Tiffany & Co. for their effort.
Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, is taking things to the next level this year, creating his own Southern California league. He lowered fees for joining a team from $175 or more to $100, which covers the cost of cleats and pads. He also loosened residency requirements.
Snoop Dogg
Archaeologists Find
Ancient Treasure
Bulgarian archaeologists have unearthed about 15,000 tiny golden pieces that date back to the end of the third millennium B.C. - a find they said Wednesday matches the famous treasure of Troy.
The golden ornaments, estimated to be between 4,100 and 4,200 years old, have been unearthed gradually during the past year from an ancient tomb near the central village of Dabene, about 75 miles east of the capital, Sofia, said Vasil Nikolov, an academic consultant on the excavations.
The treasure consists of miniature golden rings, some so finely crafted that the point where the ring is welded is invisible with an ordinary microscope.
Ancient Treasure
In Memory
Freddy Alborta
Bolivian photographer Freddy Alborta, famous for his image of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara lying dead, has died in La Paz, his family said.
Alborta worked as a photojournalist until earlier this year when illness forced him to retire. He died on Wednesday at age 73.
In 1967, Alborta was one of a group of journalists allowed to view Guevara's body after he was captured and executed by the Bolivian army.
The picture of the leftist guerrilla, with his eyes open and surrounded by soldiers, was first published in a Bolivian newspaper and then transmitted by newswire around the world as proof Latin America's leftist hero was dead.
Freddy Alborta
In Memory
Joe Ranft
Joe Ranft, who was nominated for an Oscar for co-writing "Toy Story" for Pixar Animation Studios, died when the car he was riding in veered off a Mendocino County highway and into the water, the Hollywood Reporter reported Wednesday. He was 45.
Ranft, the head of story for more than a decade at Pixar, also co-wrote "A Bug's Life" and was the voice for such characters as Heimlich in "A Bug's Life" and Wheezy the Penguin in "Toy Story 2."
Before joining Pixar, Ranft worked at Walt Disney Feature Animation, where he was a writer on "Beauty and the Beast" and "The Lion King."
Joe Ranft
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