A world-weary Baptist businessman I know likes to say, "Nobody will screw you like a brother in Christ." Meaning that there's a special kind of cynicism employed by people who use religiosity as a cover for dastardly deeds. I know......

View As Web Page To say that Dame Edna My First Last Tour playing at Parker Playhouse is old-fashioned sounds like a slight I must admit. But I mean it in the best of ways possums, the very best. Channelled by Aussie comedian Barry Humphries, the act is old-fashioned good. Witty cabaret songs and ta...

I'm not saying Tim Hardaway is ready to march in any gay parades. Not going to happen. And don't expect him to join in singing showtunes around the ol' piano bar. Nope. And if you're waiting for the ex-hoops star to become a male model, then you have a very long... Oh snap. That just...

If you ask me — and, by reading this, you kinda are — director Zack Synder (300) put himself in a no-win situation when he took the can’t-miss approach to making WATCHMEN. In adapting the Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons graphic novel as closely as possible, he’d please its rabid fanbase, but...

Via Robert Rini, poster by Obey artist Shepard Fairey. I'm sick to fucking death of cops. Every day: cops, cops, cops. Yeah - "everybody hates a cop until they need one - these guys put their life on the line, etc., etc." I'm tired of hearing that too. It's the job. You signed ...

I read the NYTimes every day, and I notice that Thomas Friedman has been a lot less soapboxy lately, since globalization and the global economy went to hell, and the flatness of his world has made it impossible to keep......

Now for today's entertainment. Sen. David Vitter, the anti-gay Louisiana Republican implicated as a long--term client of prostitutes in the DC Madam scandal, returns to the news. With "his reelection campaign looming" the Washington Post reports the adulterous right-winger "seeks......

During the Golden Age of comics, partners Joe Simon and Jack Kirby created a legendary superhero who’s just as strong and popular today: Captain America. And they also worked on Blue Bolt. Hey, they can’t all be winners. There’s a reason we don’t remember Blue Bolt today: He ...

Pit the Texas Ranger known as Walker against B.A. Baracus and who wins? Ian Spector, author of CHUCK NORRIS VS. MR. T: 400 FACTS ABOUT THE BADDEST DUDES IN THE HISTORY OF EVER — that’s who. It’s the sequel, of course, to the bestselling THE TRUTH ABOUT CHUCK NORRIS: 400 FACTS ABOUT THE...

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