Month: April 2008

Ihonestly don’t understand George W. Bush. According to the Drudge Report, he’s about to make a proposal that the U.S. will “halt greenhouse gas rise by 2025.” Since he’s a lame duck and what he’s proposing is nigh unto impossible, I doubt he will be successful. And since the people who buy into this crap ... Read more

I'vebeen in a staff meeting ALL STINKIN' DAY. Yikes. I survived by reading a travel brochure from Kazakhstan - not a Borat fake, mind you, but the real thing - and trying to wade through the English translation, which, like most of what Languatron writes, reads like it was composed by a committee of drunken, ... Read more

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Talkradio is ablaze with condemnation of Barack Obama, and rightfully so. What he said was pathetically stupid and elitist, and it ought to be condemned. I just don’t care enough to condemn it. Really, does it come as any surprise that a Democrat would slam religious people and gun owners? What’s really disgusting is watching ... Read more

WoodyAllen’s output has been wildly uneven over the years, but one of his best films is 1994’s Bullets Over Broadway, in which a 1930s mobster bankrolls a Broadway play in order to give his horrifically untalented actress girlfriend a starring role – and something to do. At one point, an understudy goes on for her, ... Read more

“By the year 2000 -- that's less than 10 years away -- the earth's climate will be warmer than it's been in over 100,000 years. If we don't do something, there'll be enormous calamities in a very short time.”

That was Meryl Streep in 1990, presumably speaking about the box-office calamity that was Lions for ... Read more

Glancingback over the comments on previous posts, I discovered that Philip did, indeed, respond to my enviro slams, and I was thrilled beyond measure. I think Foodleking is right – this blog is better when it has a good foil, and Philip definitely qualifies. I’m not being disingenuous when I say that this guy is ... Read more

Feelingbetter about the world today, although my sister keeps kicking my butt in Scrabulous on Facebook. I suck. Anyway, this whole raid on the FLDS compound in Texas is making polygamy front-page news again, and it’s got me thinking. That’s always dangerous, but bear with me. My great-grandfather was a polygamist. My grandmother was his ... Read more

Justthought I'd let you know. I can't think of anything to write. So there. ... Read more

This was a difficult and yet rewarding conference for me, mainly because Gordon B. Hinckley’s absence seemed almost like an open wound, and I wasn’t quite ready to jump on the Thomas S. Monson train. I didn’t realize just how hard it would be for me to make this transition. I hope this doesn’t come ... Read more