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POPSGeorge Carlin: 11th Annual Mark Twain Prize One of my all time comedic heroes, Carlin is certainly in GREAT company with past winners... * Billy Crystal 2007 *Neil Simon 2006 * Steve Martin 2005 *Lorne Michaels 2004 *Lily Tomlin 2003 *Bob Newhart 2002 *Whoopi Goldberg 2001 *Jonathan Winters 2000 *Carl Reiner 1999
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POPSMcCain Campaign Team Shakeup Because that's what McCain really needs, to be more closely associated with Bush. Turns out that 68% of voters were right -- McCain is Bush III.
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POPSThe Contrarian Nature of George Bush But recent events have led me to choose one of the movie's lesser characters -- Younger Bear, Little Big Man's nemesis within the Cheyenne tribe. In the course of the movie, Younger Bear becomes a "contrary," a strange phenomenon in Native American plains culture who says and does the opposite of what he actually intends. He rides his horse facing the rear, says "hello" when he means "goodbye," washes in the dirt and dries off in the creek. I came to this conclusion after Bush's recent speech in Israel, where he famously equated Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama's willingness to hold talks with Iran with the appeasement of Adolf Hitler prior to World War II. Pretty inflammatory rhetoric anywhere, but in front of the Knesset? Really over the top.
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POPSIf Cheney & Co. Had Really Plotted the 9/11 Attacks ...
Matt Taibbi's hilarious re-enactment of the secret govt. conspiracy (that never happened) to conduct the attacks. Tools email EMAIL print PRINT 724 COMMENTS 51tvu53eefl.ss500 "The Great Derangement" by Matt Taibbi (Spiegel and Grau, 2008). Share and save this post: Digg iconDelicious iconReddit iconFark iconYahoo! iconNewsvine! iconFacebook iconNewsTrust icon Also in MediaCulture Martin Amis & Chris Hitchens: Vicious Racism Concealed by a British Accent John Dolan The Most Savage Shock Jock of Them All Rory O'Connor, Aaron Cutler If Congress Slaps Rove with Contempt, How Will His Bosses at Fox and Newsweek Deal with It? Eric Boehlert The Press Is Only Too Happy to Burnish McCain's Reputation Eric Boehlert Is Who Becomes the Next President All That Matters? Danny Schechter More stories by Matt Taibbi RSS icon MediaCulture RSS Feed RSS icon Main AlterNet RSS Feed Get AlterNet in your mailbox! Advertisement The following is an adapted e
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POPSComedy Centrals 100 best Comedians 44. Joan Rivers 43. Dave Chappelle 42. Flip Wilson 41. Jon Stewart 40. Mort Sahl 39. Billy Crystal 38. Bill Maher 37. Martin Lawrence 36. Jim Carrey 35. Phyllis Diller 34. Buddy Hackett 33. Andy Kaufman 32. Albert Brooks 31. George Burns 30. Garry Shandling 29. Milton Berle 28. Jack Benny 27. Jay Leno 26. Ray Romano 25. Bob Hope 24. Redd Foxx 23. Steven Wright 22. Robert Klein 21. Dennis Miller 20. Sam Kinison 19. Bill Hicks 18. Jonathan Winters 17. Don Rickles 16. Ellen Degeneres 15. David Letterman 14. Bob Newhart 13. Robin Williams 12. Jerry Seinfeld 11. Johnny Carson 10. Eddie Murphy 9. Roseanne Barr 8. Bill Cosby 7. Rodney Dangerfield 6. Steve Martin 5. Chris Rock 4. Woody Allen 3. Lenny Bruce 2. George Carlin 1. Richard Pryor
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POPSBushie's war: 5 year war recipe (still cooking) his wife had once said, "No one suffers more than their president. I hope they know the burden of worry that's on his shoulders every single day for our troops. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ We don't need your ***** war It feeds the rich While it buries the poor. Your "Power-Hungry" selling soldiers like a human grocery store Ain't that fresh.... (excerpt from Civil War by Guns n' Roses).
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POPSWho Passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964? On February 10 , the House passed the bill by a vote of 290 to 130 and on June 19, in the wake of a record-breaking 75-day filibuster, the Senate passed its version of the civil rights bill . Now Lyndon Johnson began pressuring Congress to reach agreement on a bill that he could sign by July 4. At this moment, Johnson benefited not only from the civil rights coalition led by Martin Luther King but from the grassroots work of Bob Moses, then a young organizer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) . Three of its participants disappeared on June 21 . Their bodies would later be found buried in an earthen dam . The influence of Martin Luther King, Lyndon Johnson, and John Kennedy, along with years of demonstrations and sit-ins, had created a political tide that reached its peak with the disappearance of the three men. On July 2, Congress, under heavy public pressure, agreed to the civil rights bill that Johnson wanted.
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POPSRalph Nader: Clueless Egomanica Ralph Nader represents everything that is indulgent, self-congratulatory, and ultimately ineffective about our nation's activist community. He is busy implicitly comparing himself to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. while he is woefully short on valuable political analysis. Obama hits the nail on the head here: Nader doesn't actually understand politics. Anyone who thought Gore and Bush were the same ought to be feeling pretty sheepish after over 6 years of uninterrupted warfare on multiple fronts, economic crisis, financial collapse, and rapacious Nero-esque indulgence from the Bush administration. Nader couldn't have been more wrong. There is nobody quite like George W. Bush! (Thank goodness!)
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POPSMillions Without a Voice of the Vote If I hadn't been pardoned by Pres. Gerald Ford (bless the man) for my Fed. conviction of refusal to serve in the Military in protest of the Vietnam war in '70, I wouldn't be voting now. Some would probably say I don't deserve to vote because I'm a refusenik...but then those people are....well...wrong!
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POPSDecommissioning Aging Infrastructure "EXPERTS" recommend targeted decommissioning of deterioriated and obsolete infrastructure to renew degraded ecosystems. This approach will turn the middle of the United States into a bare scattering of city-states unable to communicate because their infrastructure was destroyed when it could have been fixed in a way that could also help the environment repair.
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POPSMore crap... ...who the hell believes any of these guys anyways. Uh, except people on the same self-serving plane of awareness. Or is that Un-awareness? WTF, I guess it's both.
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POPSWorld’s Best Quotes About Sex “My girlfriend always laughs during sex - no matter what she’s reading.” - Steve Jobs (Founder, Apple Computers) “My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch.” - Jack Nicholson “Clinton lied. A man might forget where he parks or where he lives, but he never forgets oral sex, no matter how bad it is.” - Barbara Bush (Former US First Lady - and you didn’t think Barbara had a sense of humor) “Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man’s genitals through his wallet.” - Robin Williams “Women complain about premenstrual syndrome, but I think of it as the only time of the month that I can be myself.” - Roseanne “Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.” - Billy Crystal “According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful.” - Robert De Niro “There’s
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POPSAmerican Participants of the North American Forum Mr. William W. McIlhenny, Policy Planning Council for Western Hemisphere Affairs Dr. Peter McPherson , President, National Association of State Universities & Land-Grant Colleges Ms. Doris Meissner, Senior Fellow, Migration Policy Institute # Dr. George Miller, Director, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory # Mr. George Nethercutt, Chairman, US Section of the Permanent Joint Board on Defense, US – Canada (Security) # Mary Anastasia O'Grady, Journalist for Wall Street Journal (Area Specialist) # Dr. Robert A. Pastor, Director, Center for North American Studies, American University, Washington, DC
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POPSThe twenty lies of George W. Bush It sometimes helps to go back in time to see how accurate and reliable some reports are. This article seems to have been more accurate than most would want to believe. Due to Clipmark limitations I wasn't able to list all twenty lies. But, it is worth going to the site to read the reasoning behind calling these statements lies and to read what the other lies were. The author gives counter-arguments and reports, to back up his assessment of these statements by Bush.
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POPSFamous Quotes "Since the general civilization of mankind, I believe there are more instances of the abridgment of freedoms of the people by gradual and silent encroachment of those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations." ~James Madison "Yes, we did produce a near perfect Republic. But will they keep it, or will they, in the enjoyment of plenty, lose the memory of freedom? Material abundance without character is the surest way to destruction." ~Thomas Jefferson "The nobility of the soldier willing to give a life for country and God lies silent and still amidst the broken promises of leaders. Send them not to futile sacrifice on shores so far from home. But keep your word to all that serve that none shall die in vain." ~ R Raitano, fellow medic, Vietnam era "A good end cannot sanctify evil means; nor must we ever do evil that good may come from it." ~Wm. Penn
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