From SNL (click here if viewer doesn't show): By the way, is there anything NPH doesn't do? NPH's Most Amazing Musical Moments NPH sings Rent! NPH does magic! NPH juggles! NPH wishes that he were your lover! NPH conducts orchestras!
Best Job In The World
Queensland Island in the Great Barrier Reef is trying to up its tourism profile, and the way they intend to do it is to hire a blogger. Requirements? Hang around the island (swim, snorkel, etc) and blog about it: The successful candidate will be asked to keep a blog and photo diary in exchange for six months rent-free on Hamilton … Read More
The Beast’s List of The 50 Most Loathesome People of 2008
Naturally, they are mostly politicians and pundits, but the Freecreditreport.com guy makes an appearance at 40 (while "you" are at 43). Obama is No. 50. (Other Dems and liberals are on the list, including the Clintons, Olbermann, Caroline Kennedy, and John Edwards). I'll save the suspense — Sarah Palin is #1, who got this scathing write-up: If you want to … Read More
One More For The Road
I got some of Bush's last press conference yesterday, and found it a little bizarre. He seemed to acknowledge a few mistakes (the "Mission Accomplished" banner), but he mostly phrased them as "disappointments" (abu Gharib). What he said about Katrina shows just how out-of-touch he still is, even in retropect: "I've thought long and hard about Katrina," Bush said. "Could … Read More
As Someone About To Be Heading For The Doctor’s…
… and having to make several stops beforehand to get charts, etc….. I think this is sadly needed. Obama's big idea: Digital health records President-elect wants to computerize the nation's health care records in five years. But the plan comes with a hefty price tag, and specialized labor is scarce. Sadly needed, sadly overdue. And why should it be hard? … Read More
Golden Globe Awards
I'm glad I didn't make any predictions, because I would have sucked. I'm glad Slumdog Millionaire is getting a lot of earlier awards (and maybe the best Motion Picture Drama). Maybe it will come to Winston-Salem. Well, as I type this, Slumdog won. Glad about Mickey, too. And Heath. And that John Adams won a lot (the miniseries itself, Laura … Read More
The Bush Legacy
This is precisely why the blog "Jon Swift" deserves the 2008 Humor Weblog of the Year Award: As I recently predicted, in few months, with the benefit of hindsight, historians will look back on the Bush presidency as an unalloyed success and consider President Bush to be one of our greatest presidents. Although the White House has sent around its own talking … Read More
Obama To Appoint Gupta?
For what it's worth, I like the idea of Dr. Sunjay Gupta as Surgeon General, the current balloon being floated by the incoming Obama administration. I like his news reports on CNN and CBS. I like his rapport on talk shows. But this WaPo headline gets it wrong when it calls him a "journalist", as do right-wing blogs who focus … Read More
Inspirational Movie Scenes
All spliced together (very well edited) into two minutes. You'll like it, trust me:
Republican’s Plans To Become More Popular
They're going to get "hip": "We have to do it in the Facebook, with the Twittering, the different technology that young people are using today," Duncan ventured. "Let me just say that I have 4,000 friends on Facebook," contributed Blackwell, putting his hand on Dawson's and Anuzis's knees. "That's probably more than these two guys put together, but who's counting, you … Read More
“Bye Bye Birdie” Musical To Be (Re)made Into Movie
I'll keep an open mind, but the first one was pretty good:
The Truth About That McDonald’s Hot Coffee Lawsuit
It came up in a conversation I had the other day: the lady who sued McDonald's because her coffee was too hot. It's always the example tossed out by people whenever there is a discussion about frivilous lawsuits. Now, there are frivilous lawsuits filed everday. But the McDonald's Hot Coffee Lawsuit is not a very good example. Here's what most people … Read More
Can True Love Last Forever? New Scientific Study Says…
Yes: Love has no secrets from neurologists armed with an MRI brain scanner. What they have found contradicts the cynics: there is such a thing as everlasting love. Researchers at Stony Brook University in New York have shown that the traditionally sorry path of sexual love – a downward spiral from lust to indifference over the space of a decade … Read More
Now We Know Where The $700 Billion Dollar Bailout Went
Actual screenshot from Amazon for a bunny hutch: Full story here. Note: The bunny hutch has now been discounted. It's now selling for hutch
Media Gets It Wrong Again….
The headline: Milky Way 50 Percent Larger, Astronomers Discover Total bullcrap. I went into a convenience store this evening. They're totally the same size.