Cosmetic Surgery (April 4, 2003)

Cosmetic Surgery
Until last night I had no idea there was a “news” “magazine” on Fox called “The Pulse,” which somehow is anchored by the same damned Fox “reporter” who’s “reporting” the war, and is supposed to be somewhere out in Qatar or Kuwait. (I know that Fox reporter. He was once an anchor for NBC [...]

Me vs. The Postmodern: A Staring Contest — 9/11 on “The Real World”

I paid a visit to the downstairs neighbors, who were watching TV.
And down, down, down, through that long dark rabbit-hole of giggles, through curlicue pigtails of conversation butt-ends that had lost their beginnings, somehow someone turned on “The Real World: Chicago.”
As I don’t have MTV (or any cable, for that matter) I’d not seen “The [...]

The Sweetest Two Words in the Dictionary: Stephen Colbert

The sweetest two words in the dictionary. (May 2, 2006)
Our patriotic propagandists in the mainstream media are responding to charges that they failed to cover Stephen Colbert’s flaying of the president and the press, and in a most presidential fashion: claiming it “just wasn’t funny enough” to merit a mention.
Personally, I would like to know [...]