It's been a while...

since my last post. I was in Hawai'i for ten days (yes, I am one fortunate human being) and before that work had pretty much engulfed my life.

I'll be posting a proper blog later this week, but in the meantime, why not enjoy this classic clip from Stephen Colbert's The Colbert Report, with guests Sean Penn and poet Robert Pinsky, which first aired on April 19, 2007 and is just further proof that Stephen Colbert is the greatest thing since band-aids.

(I tried to embed the video, to no avail.)

Keith speaks the truth

Keith Olbermann of MSNBC couldn't have summed up the disgusting display of inhumanity demonstrated by those hate-mongers who believe that same-sex marriage should be banned:

Just an observation...

Isn't it refreshing to see a President (elect) who simply looks like he understands what's going on around him?

"Let Freedom Ring"

This is what I think of Proposition 8 (the unconstitutional California ban on same-sex marriage):















Join the fight.

Happy Halloween

"[Shortened from All-Hallow-Even: see ALL-Hallow 4.] The eve of All Hallows' or All Saints'; the last night of October.

In the Old Celtic calendar the year began on 1st November, so that the last evening of October was ‘old-year's night’, the night of all the witches, which the Church transformed into the Eve of All Saints."

- the Oxford English Dictionary

Frustration

John McCain "clinched" the Republican nomination on March 3rd. Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination June 3rd.

How could anyone honestly be undecided at this point? These two couldn't possibly be more different. The close race between Kerry and Bush sort of made sense in '04 - one was an incumbent, a war-time incumbent, of all things - and one was utterly uninspiring.

But this is a different race with two nominees who have vastly differing running mates and utterly contrasting backgrounds (rich, poor, educated, militarized, etc...). Oh, and there's the whole platform thing. McCain is offering us a third Bush term by stepping up military spending on the war of terror and giving corporate America more tax breaks so that their piss can drip down upon the rest of us, somehow anointing us with prosperity. Obama wants to relieve the struggling middle class and take the war where it belonged in the first place, Afghanistan.

Honestly people, if you haven't decided by now, stay home. You were given democracy, however often it breaks down, don't take that right and shit all over it.

To Richard with love

Sean made a good point the other night.

Isn't it disappointing that Richard Pryor did not live long enough to see Barack Obama elected? I can't think of anyone who'd enjoy watching the first black man ascend to the presidency (well, except maybe MLK...) more than this guy:

"In the early Sixties, Richie and I would frequently be on the same bill at the Cafe Au Go Go, and sometimes while introducing each other, we'd do a few improvs between sets. There was always a rapport, and perhaps we share certain comic viewpoints, but I think Pryor is without peer. The thing he does better than anyone else is represent who he is, where he's been, and who has been around him. He doesn't do whole characters in the sense that Lily and Jonathan do, but Richard does fantastic characterizations - an entire personality implied by just a line here, a gesture there. And his white guys really kill me. Richard is just a genius. He makes me laugh from the soles of my feet - that's S-O-L-E-S."

- George Carlin, 1982

Wish you were here, Mr. Pryor.