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Malaka Of The Week: Alex Jones

Like Dim Jim Infofe before him, I'm surprised that I haven't selected Info Wars conspiracy tool Alex Jones as malaka of the week before. He's clearly overqualified for the post. He's found guvmint agents under every bed and claimed that... Continue reading

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Pulp Fiction Thursday: Ducks With 4 Wings

I haven't posted a sideshow banner for awhile and, for some weird reason, this one spoke to me. I wonder if these wee duckies were around during the BP oil spill? Today's PFT provides an excellent pretext for posting this... Continue reading

Posted 6 hours ago at FIRST DRAFT

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Weiner whips it out

Yeah, I know ,I don't have any class but I never claimed to. Neither, however, does Anthony Weiner. Chutzpah? Absolutely. Class? Absolutely not. You would think that tweeting pictures of your junk would disqualify you from being Mayor of Noo... Continue reading

Posted yesterday at FIRST DRAFT

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A polite smackdown

I am on record as loathing CNN's bombastic and pompous anchor critter, Wolf Blitzer. I recall when Bernie Shaw and Judy Woodruff were the faces of that network and Wolf's, uh, stature is evidence of the decline and fall of... Continue reading

Posted yesterday at FIRST DRAFT

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Quote Of The Day: Tory Grandee Edition

I have a friend who maintains that mainstream European Conservatives aren't all that wingnutty. I hope that he's paying attention to the intra-Tory party debate over marriage equality. Here's what former Party Chairman and Thatcher intimate, Lord Norman Tebbit had... Continue reading

Posted 2 days ago at FIRST DRAFT

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Album Cover Art Wednesday: Feats Don't Fail Me Now

I used to have a promotional poster for this LP hanging on my wall eons ago. I have no idea whatever happened to it, but the image of GW and Marilyn cruising together still makes me smile. It's another cover... Continue reading

Posted 2 days ago at FIRST DRAFT

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Mad Men Thread: The Crash

Style and substance go hand in hand in the best episodes of Mad Men. It is *always*stylish in a variety of ways and sometimes style overwhelms substance, The Crash is one of those episodes. It's made up of some great... Continue reading

Posted 3 days ago at FIRST DRAFT

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My Governor Is A Vapid Fool

Governor PBJ has weighed in on the fake IRS "scandal:" “You cannot take the freedom of law-abiding Americans, whether you disagree with them or not, and keep your own freedom, When you do that, you go to jail." The "scandal"... Continue reading

Posted 4 days ago at FIRST DRAFT

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Sunday Morning Video: Trekkies

I still have Star Trek on my mind. I stumbled into this documentary on cable the other day and watched it again. The fans are a bit nutty but also pretty darn intelligent, just like my readers. My favorite is... Continue reading

Posted 5 days ago at FIRST DRAFT

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Quote Of The Day: Tory Party Edition

As you may have noticed, I love British politics; especially when one of the major parties is committing seppuku. The quote comes from an unnamed close associate of David Cameron's and it is aimed at local constituency branches of the... Continue reading

Posted 5 days ago at FIRST DRAFT

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NOLA Notes: Mother's Day Shooting Follow Up

The good news is that they got the putrid gangbanger who opened fire on the second line in Treme. I should say alleged shooter but the case looks rock solid unless, that is, they blow it. Mayor Landrieu and Chief... Continue reading

Posted 6 days ago at FIRST DRAFT

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Pantsed In The UK

Yeah, I know they call them trousers there but I'm following up on the Pierce/Gohmert theme. The populist right wing UKIP party is facing more scrutiny after its recent success at the polls. One of its donors is engaged in... Continue reading

Posted 6 days ago at FIRST DRAFT

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Paragraph of the day

It comes from the great Charles Pierce in a post entitled Louie Gohmert Gets Pantsed: Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas, perhaps the dumbest mammal to enter a legislative chamber since Caligula's horse, and Gohmert's only the half of that, pretty... Continue reading

Posted 6 days ago at FIRST DRAFT

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Friday Catblogging: Trunk Show

We have a trunk as a coffee table. It's attractive, sturdy and it's marked House of Representatives. It was a hand me down from my late boss, friend, and mentor Congressman Gillis Long who died many years ago. We used... Continue reading

Posted 6 days ago at FIRST DRAFT

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This is not an original observation, but I'm sick and tired of gate being apended to every political feeding frenzy that comes down the pike. Watergate was a sui generis scandal that was rooted in the sick, twisted and paranoid... Continue reading

Posted 7 days ago at FIRST DRAFT

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Pulp Fiction Thursday: The Lady From Shanghai

This was one of the last times Orson Welles directed a picture at a major Hollywood studio. It's a good one, but the stories surrounding it are better than the movie itself. Orson royally pissed off Columbia Studio goniff Harry... Continue reading

Posted 7 days ago at FIRST DRAFT

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Wednesday Night Music: Baby Blue

Here's a swell cover of the Badfinger classic by the great Aimee Mann: Continue reading

Posted May 15, 2013 at FIRST DRAFT

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The Beltway Borg Collective

I have Star Trek on my mind. There's a lot of hype surrounding the second JJ Abrams prequel/reboot/whatever in addition to Matt Yglesias' amusing exegesis of the franchise at Slate. It's got me thinking about the Star Trek super villains,... Continue reading

Posted May 15, 2013 at FIRST DRAFT

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Album Cover Art Wednesday: Broadsword and the Beast

It's not exactly a mystery that I'm a hardcore Tull fan. So hardcore, in fact, that I decline to use the jarring word Jethro. Broadsword is a very underrated LP musically, but there's widespread agreement among the Tullerazzi about the... Continue reading

Posted May 15, 2013 at FIRST DRAFT

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Mad Men Thread: A Rap Session About Margarine

The merger of SCDP and CGC is on, but the new agency remains a horse with no name. Hold on, that's a Seventies song. Never mind. The overall theme of Man With A Plan was power. Don started the episode... Continue reading

Posted May 13, 2013 at FIRST DRAFT

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NOLA Notes: Stupid and senseless

Every time I'm offline for a day, all hell breaks loose somewhere. Today it was in New Orleans. There was a second line parade in honor of Mother's Day. As you may have noticed, we love our parades. During the... Continue reading

Posted May 12, 2013 at FIRST DRAFT

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Sunday Morning Video- Frank Sinatra: A Man and his Music

Here's a 1966 teevee special featuring the Chairman of the Board, Antonio Carlos Jobim, and the sublime Ella Fitzgerald: Continue reading

Posted May 11, 2013 at FIRST DRAFT

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The Mad Men meet the Chevy Vega

It's always good to have talented readers. An email from Alex Smith made its way into my in-box the other day: I’ve been following your Mad Men episode recaps/photo gallery posts all season and have really enjoyed them so I... Continue reading

Posted May 11, 2013 at FIRST DRAFT

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Malaka Of The Week: James Inhofe

Oklahoma is not okay with me. When I was still dealing with tourists in the Quarter, I could usually muster something positive to say about almost any place that they were from. There was one exception: Oklahoma. Other than being... Continue reading

Posted May 10, 2013 at FIRST DRAFT

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The junior Senator from Louisiana is back in the news this week. (No, not just because he gets name checked in stories about Mark Sanford's comeback.) Bitter Vitter is doing what he does best, which is being a royal pain... Continue reading

Posted May 10, 2013 at FIRST DRAFT

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