Sunday, July 11, 2010

Star Trek credits as they should have been, with photos

Why couldn't the original Star Trek have featured the actual pictures of the actors as well as their names? Maybe it would have lasted longer if viewers could see who the show was about.

This fan did a nice mock-up of how it could have been.

Oh, and please watch it all the way through...it's worth it.

Wednesday, July 07, 2010

The Biggest Right Wing Comedy Show Since the 1/2 New Hour!

There's a new Fox News (would-be) competitor called the Right Network, and I posted this comment on YouTube preview for one of their shows, Right to Laugh, but since the comment is "pending approval," I thought I'd cross post it here for posterity:

Kind of funny that a Right Wing comic would joke about his lack of dental care.



By the way, Media Matters report that the show's producer, Evan Sayet, called it "a safe haven for people who don't want to hear their president called a Nazi."

Now that's funny!

Conservative are Mean SOBS, Continued

Chicago Sun-Times columnist Terry Savage berates some little girls for giving away free lemonade instead of selling it.

The three young girls -- under the watchful eye of a nanny, sitting on the grass with them -- explained that they had regular lemonade, raspberry lemonade, and small chocolate candy bars.

Then my brother asked how much each item cost.

"Oh, no," they replied in unison, "they're all free!"

I sat in the back seat in shock. Free? My brother questioned them again: "But you have to charge something? What should I pay for a lemonade? I'm really thirsty!"

His fiancee smiled and commented, "Isn't that cute. They have the spirit of giving."

That really set me off, as my regular readers can imagine.

"No!" I exclaimed from the back seat. "That's not the spirit of giving. You can only really give when you give something you own. They're giving away their parents' things -- the lemonade, cups, candy. It's not theirs to give."

I pushed the button to roll down the window and stuck my head out to set them straight.

"You must charge something for the lemonade," I explained. "That's the whole point of a lemonade stand. You figure out your costs -- how much the lemonade costs, and the cups -- and then you charge a little more than what it costs you, so you can make money. Then you can buy more stuff, and make more lemonade, and sell it and make more money."

I was confident I had explained it clearly. Until my brother, breaking the tension, ordered a raspberry lemonade. As they handed it to him, he again asked: "So how much is it?"