Wow. I had no idea one of my favorite Coen brothers’ movies had been turned into an annual festival.
It’d be worse if you could smoke fat, though.
A double helping of news on America’s epidemic with obesity: almost as deadly as tobacco, and no lawsuits allowed against fast food restaurants for making their customers unhealthy. Normally I’m on the side of the plaintiffs, but honestly, if one can’t see that a Whopper or a Big Mac is unhealthy for consumption, doesn’t personal responsibility need to come to the rescue?
SF’s gay wedding streak comes to a halt almost a month after its inception. Conservatives need to drop offense to this issue — it’s a social justice, and not a religious, issue, highlighted by Bill Maher’s quote, “We’re here. We’re queer. Get bored with it.”
“I always gagged on that silver spoon… if I hadn’t been very rich, I might have been a really great man.”
Charles Foster Kane (Orson Welles), “Citizen Kane”
Making Marriage Religious?
Mary-Ann Greanier, in her tongue-in-cheek article “Biblical Sense: Making Marriage Religious”, argues to make any marriage law in strict accordance with the Bible, so there’s no sense of hypocracy, including:
“A marriage shall be considered valid only if the wife is a virgin. If the wife is found not to be a virgin, “they shall take her to the door of her father’s house and her fellow citizens shall stone her to death” (Deut. 22:13-21). (Here, Governor Romney’s resurrection of the death penalty will come in handy.)”
Exploding the curse
Blowing up the Cubs curse. Can Dusty Baker do it again? I hope so — I’d really love to see that Red Sox/Cubs World Series.
Behold the marketing power of Mel Gibson, who may be approaching the Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston celebrity hall-of-infamy. Said a popular nighttime comic, “If ‘The Passion of the Christ” continues to do well, there’s talk about making it into a book.”
The Day After Tomorrow
Creepy global warming disaster movie, which will probably suck, because the guy who directed Independence Day is directing it.
Pro Facta
A vintage 1959 Buick converted to a boat, sailed by a group of Cubans, was caught by the US Coast Guard.
The Pentagon cancelled its Internet voting test for military and overseas citizens, citing security concerns.
“I’m pro fact… We can have better discussions about what’s real instead of arguments about what we’re not permitted to know.”
Ron Suskind, author of The Price of Loyalty, on Real Time With Bill Maher
The O’Franken Factor
Steve Bartman, the infamous Cub fan who allegedly deflected a ball in the 6th game of the Cubs vs Florida playoffs is getting his due: MSNBC is airing live coverage of the foul ball’s destruction on February 26th, in hopes of lifting the Cubs curse.
In other Chicago news, Progress Media’s liberal radio network has found an outlet in the city at WNTD-AM 950, a former Spanish-language radio station. Al Franken will feature prominently at the network, with his show, “The O’Franken Factor”.
In the year 3000
A view of the year 3000, written in 1856.
Something to do
Nothing like a war or two to keep the military focused and useful, so says the head of the US military.
I Robot Now: a neat e-commerce site that took a few minutes to figure out that it’s a promo for an upcoming movie.
Neat. They fit a bunch of Atari games inside an Atari joystick.
“It is a good day to wed!”
Ach! A Klingon wedding. Why should I laugh, though? My parents did get married in Vegas, at the Union Plaza while it was still a cool place to go.
Will the latex extracted from the rainforest serve to both foster sustainable development *and* prevent the spread of AIDS? The Brazilian government thinks so, and is building the condom factory to make it happen.