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San Francisco City Hall, February 28, 2004

A lot of you have already heard about Talking Presidents, the creators of collectable “action figures” such as Talking George W. Bush, Talking Rummy and the amazingly Barbie-esque Talking Ann Coulter.

While there is a Talking Bill Clinton doll to add some Fox-style “balance” to the Talking Presidents lineup, one look at the description should […]

A couple of examples of the shifting playing field in the whole same-sex marriage debate:
1. Dick Cheney, during a 2000 Vice-Presidential debate, when asked “Should a male who loves a male and a female who loves a female have all the constitutional rights enjoyed by every American citizen?”:
“People should be free to enter into any […]

In his review of The Passion of the Christ, rotund veteran movie critic Roger Ebert said:
The movie is 126 minutes long, and I would guess that at least 100 of those minutes, maybe more, are concerned specifically and graphically with the details of the torture and death of Jesus. This is the most violent film […]

…I dare you.

Cartoon from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution by Mike Luckovich.

“It’s always busy on your telephone line, Why don’t you call me” - Deee-Lite - “Call Me”

Governor Mike Huckabee of Arkansas fancies himself a renaissance man. He plays in a rock band called Capitol Offense, and has written a book called Living Beyond Your Lifetime.
In lieu of, you know, actually giving a speech at […]

Posted by Sam
From the “Taking Myself too Seriously” Archive:

James Caviezel is an actor. So is Mel Gibson. Now Gibson’s a director, making a film about the death of Jesus Christ. It’s safe to say that Gibson, a mediocre Australian film actor best known for his roles in the Mad Max and Lethal Weapon movies got […]

Yes, the illuminated signs were playing hell with my camera’s auto-focus…but this is too good to pass up. The best stupid puns are the ones that were likely never intended in the first place.
(besides, I hear that they are on the short list of a future Peabs California campaign stop, assuming that he can […]

We’ve been watching with the default combination of mild amusement and total outrage as the administration talks of reclassifying fast food jobs as manufacturing jobs.
Click the image to the left to see a letter from Michigan Representative John Dingell to one of the administration’s “top” economic advisors, Gregory Mankiw.
Congratulations to Mr. Dingell. […]

We’ve written about incompetent hack and U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige in the past. The driving force behind the “No Child Left Behind” charade, continues to make an ass out of himself.
Recently he used the word “emancipation” to describe Washington D.C.’s school voucher system. Now the word “emancipation” isn’t strictly limited to […]