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All parking lots are not created equal
2008-02-08 04:43:00 When you park your car at a criminal courthouse, don’t be surprised when the people parking next to you don’t have much respect for your property. More About: Parking , Equal
Nobody ever acused Angelenos of being smart
2008-02-06 08:02:00 Only in Los Angeles would people overwhelmingly support a 9% phone tax because it was lower than a 10% phone tax. More About: Politics , Smart
No wit required
2008-02-06 05:37:00 If Mike Huckabee were in touch with the world around him, he would say that he’s not leaving the field while there’s still time on the clock. More About: Politics , Sports , Super Bowl , Bill Belichick
28 years of Bush, Clinton, Bush, Clinton
2008-02-06 03:51:00 The value of our votes is not lessened by caucuses, super delegates, voting machines and the electoral college, as much as it is by our unwillingness to do anything meaningful with them. More About: Bush , Clinton , Years , Linton
Electability 101
2008-02-04 20:25:00 The winner of the general presidential election may be determined by which party doesn’t have the worst surprise: the Democrats finding out how badly many Americans hate Hillary Clinton , or the Republicans finding out that Americans still don’t like the Iraq War. More About: Politics , Cain
Schwartzeneggeromics
2008-02-04 04:19:00 Increasing the amount of money that can be gambled in Indian casinos (without any government-regulated taxes being collected) only decreases the amount of money that is spent in non-sovereign areas of the state (where sales taxes are guaranteed). More About: Politics
Obviously Will Ferrell wasn?t available.
2008-02-04 00:47:00 Who knew Chris Kattan was recognizable enough to do a cameo. More About: Will Ferrell , Ferrell
Pre-recorded + lip-synced = music video
2008-02-04 00:10:00 When she lip-synced that sample she recorded 20 years ago, Paula Abdul was being out-performed by the arm-wavers they paid to stand in the first three rows. More About: Video , Music , Music Video , Super Bowl
But then George W. said he didn?t want to police the world
2008-02-03 20:16:00 The silver lining is that if it weren’t for Iraq, we wouldn’t have known the plain-speaking John McCain of 2000 was such an interventionist. More About: Politics , Bush , World , Iraq War , George W
It?s not like those cops wouldn?t have been paid anyway
2008-02-01 21:39:00 It may seem excessive to spend $25,000 for Britney Spears ’ nuthouse escort, but it pales in comparison to the millions that would be spent defending the paparazzi’s frivilous lawsuits for police brutality. More About: Politics , Pop Culture , Paid , Cops
The difference between stubborn and stupid
2008-02-01 18:21:00 The inability to admit that you’re wrong is only really a problem when you’re wrong all the time. More About: Society , Pop Culture , Bill O , Stupid , Difference
Through the Republican looking glass
2008-02-01 07:47:00 Bragging about your early support for The Surge is like taking pride in your tourniquet tying skills after you’ve cut off somebody’s arm. More About: Politics , Iraq , Republican , Cain , Glass
Bad credit? No problem!
2008-01-30 02:48:00 The first sign a ballot measure is bad is when it sounds like it was written by a used car salesman. More About: Society , Politics , Credit , Problem
Press conference of one
2008-01-28 21:39:00 When an athlete gives a positive or ambivilent press conference following a hard loss, he’s talking more to himself than to the press. More About: Sports , Press , Press Conference , Kobe Bryant , Lakers
The league MVP should be the best player on his team
2008-01-28 10:06:00 A person running for President of the United States shouldn’t be a distant second-place when it comes to being the best politician in his/her own home. More About: Politics , Hillary Clinton , Bill Clinton , Player , Team
Indians play to win
2008-01-27 18:55:00 Indian gambling stopped being about “self-reliance” when the Indians started betraying each other in order to quelch dissent and increase profits. Link: LA Weekly More About: Politics , Play
Tiger Woods: victim, culprit, or victim twice?
2008-01-27 03:42:00 Clarence Thomas might say that the criticism of Tiger Woods for not being offended enough (or black enough) is a different version of “high-tech lynching”. More About: Society , Sports , Al Sharpton
Mary-Kate to the rescue
2008-01-26 05:54:00 Somehow the involvement of the Olsen Twins and their brain-dead masseuse makes a tragic death much more horrible. More About: Society , Ashley Olsen , Heath Ledger , Mary Kate , Pop Culture
Slick Willie the Hatchet Man
2008-01-23 06:33:00 Somebody might want to tell Bill Clinton that his increasingly visible and stridently divisive tactics in his wife’s campaign will eventually serve to remind many, many Americans why they hate Hillary Clinton . More About: Politics , Willie
Plan your tragically short movie career wisely
2008-01-23 02:45:00 If you’re remembered for playing the Joker, you’re the next Brandon Lee or James Dean; if you’re remembered for playing a gay cowboy, you’re fodder for the clueless Rush Limbaughs of the world. More About: Society , Movie , Heath Ledger , Batman , Pop Culture
Double (Stuff) Tragedy
2008-01-22 05:10:00 The outcome of the NFC Championship game not only means more commercials starring the Manning brothers, but that Brett Farve probably won’t retire this year either. More About: Sports , Tragedy , Double , Pop Culture , Stuff
Knight Rider paints itself into a corner
2008-01-21 16:09:00 Since the name of the original car, KITT, was an abbreviation for Knight Industries Two Thousand, and the car in the sequel is supposed to be Knight Industries Three Thousand, then any future sequels will have to name their car KIFT or KIST. More About: Pop Culture , David Hasselhoff , Paints , Corner
CBS?s new sideline reporter, the thermometer
2008-01-21 00:19:00 If the Super Bowl were played in Green Bay , commentators would probably devote the next two weeks to 24-7 coverage of the current temperature. More About: Sports , Pop Culture , Reporter , Thermometer
1/18/08
2008-01-19 08:35:00 Losing her children permanently would probably be good for Britney Spears, too. More About: Pop Culture
1/17/08
2008-01-17 09:58:00 If you waited 9 days to get a restraining order against somebody who battered you (and who lives/works 1,487 miles away from you), then you don’t need a restraining order. More About: Society
1/16/08
2008-01-16 18:20:00 The Ohio Highway Patrol can confirm that Lebron James is no closer to being the next Muhammed Ali than Terrell Owens is. More About: Society , Sports
1/15/08
2008-01-15 15:09:00 If Bill and Hillary Clinton were true white leaders of the black community, they wouldn’t attack a black leader of the black community for not wanting their leadership anymore. More About: Society , Politics , Barack Obama , Bill Clinton
1/13/08
2008-01-14 07:26:00 You know it’s going to be a good reality show when there are subtitles for people who are supposedly speaking English. More About: Pop Culture , Rock of Love
1/12/08
More articles from this author:2008-01-13 04:17:00 If the banana is proof that God exists, then somebody other than God must have designed watermelons. More About: Intelligent Design , Religion , Creationism , Ray Comfort 1, 2, 3 |
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