Category Archives: Utter Miscellany

TPM’s David Kurtz suggests a new “Cash for Clunkers” plan: “How about a program where we can turn in the old, washed-up pundits and talking heads on the cable nets for ones that spew less dangerous emissions?”

No, not like that, you sickos. Here’s Captain Kirk himself, on the Tonight Show, reading a verbatim excerpt from ex-Governor Palin’s farewell address the way it was intended to be read — as poetry: (Hat tip: B. Minich.) P.S. Shatner is short!

Jon Stewart eviscerates the suddenly-prominent birther movement: Has Colbert done a segment on these clowns yet? It seems right up his alley. Meanwhile, as I was writing this post’s title, and contemplating whether “birthers” should be capitalized or not, I was reminded of the term “Birchers” — as in, the John Birch Society — which, of course, reminded me of… Read more »