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14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Worst. Apology. Ever. ... · 0 replies · +1 points

Carson himself had an unfortunate tendency to pull nasty tricks during the opening monologue. A couple of examples: (1) he repeatedly referred to Wayne Newton as homosexual (until Newton walked into his office one day and personally assured him that he would "kick his ^^^" if it did not immediately stop; and (2) I remember Carson making a joke about putting siblings Donny and Marie Osmond in two cages, to be released "at the moment of puberty."

-Tom

14 years ago @ Big Hollywood - I must be getting old, as I can remember a time when other people in the bar -- even those who agreed with Mr. Hanks's politics -- would have forcibly removed him from the premises without waiting for a bouncer to help. Unfortunately, boorishness is now acceptable, at least when perpetrated on a conservative woman.

15 years ago @ Big Journalism - Sarah Palin, Vanity... · 0 replies · +1 points

I gotta say, I am a little offended by the "Princeton <> Christian" rhetoric in this thread, as my pastor -- a young'un, barely 30 -- is unequivocally Christian by any orthodox definition, as well as a relatively recent Princeton graduate. Ditto for some of his buddies who come to visit our church from time to time.

15 years ago @ Big Journalism - Just How Large Was the... · 1 reply · +3 points

For the past year or so I had assumed it stood for Almost Pravda.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Today's Open Thread · 0 replies · +2 points

Really? My impression is that God is holy, and will not be mocked.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Today's Open Thread · 1 reply · +2 points

Sorry, Jake -- one of the Pythons -- Cleese? -- said in an onscreen interview (enough years ago that I forget who it was specifically) that it was indeed a dig at all religion, intentionally targeting Christians, and using the mistaken-Brian thing as a way to weasel out, much the same way the Last temptation of Christ tried to get away with it using an "It was all a dream" approach.

The Pythons as a whole despised Christians, and LOB (as well as Holy Grail and Meaning of Life) express that.

15 years ago @ Big Government - Daily Kos Blogger: 9/1... · 0 replies · +7 points

"First off, the majority when asked their opinion will almost always be against the rights of a minority. "

That is a false statement, intended to support the writer's moral superiority to a straw man. Were it true, we would still have Jim Crow laws, homosexuals would be routinely executed, and the American Indian tribes would be extinct.

Whether the Kos blogger is a liar, a dupe, or an idiot (or a combination thereof) is left as an exercise for the reader.

15 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Today's Open Thread · 0 replies · +2 points

Another strength of the movie is that it let us see Wil Wheaton playing Not-Wesley-Crusher. He was darned good at it -- he earned having his name in front of that of River Phoenix, a non-trivial task.

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Stars With Pluck · 0 replies · +1 points

If you're sitting on the couch or in the coffee shop reading this on your laptop, you can trace it back to Hedy LaMarr. Not only was her invention of frequency hopping good for secret transmissions, it is also good for spectrum sharing, the second generation of which is Wi-Fi. You can find a nice discussion of her at http://wireless.oldcolo.com/course/hedy.htm

16 years ago @ Big Hollywood - Honduras Nips Dictator... · 0 replies · +2 points

And that one wasn't filtered? I love this software!

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