No More Ellen De"Generate"..

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Tuesday May 15, 2007 · 1:51 PM PDT

2007/05/15 · 13:51

I don't usually play "pile-on" but I'm making an exception today. Also, I don't usually watch Ellen but I might for a few days to see if her joyful, amateurish dances have an extra spring and zip. Imagine having a a famous religious person who has taken Jesus Christ as his Personal Savior, (Falwell) using his bully pulpit to make homophobic fun of you and your name and the name you share with your family. Moral Majority indeed.

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Bill Maher's Nappy-Haired Mo'

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Monday May 14, 2007 · 8:25 AM PDT

2007/05/14 · 08:25

It isn’t that I don’t appreciate Bill Maher on his HBO show taking time out from his distinguished panel discussing Iraq, Genocide, Global Warming, and the Meltdown of American Democracy, to worry about where we gays are going to cruise after the tragic Griffith Park fire. It’s just that Maher has exposed his smarmy homophobic side before, all in the service of getting a few snickers from the lower order of his audience.

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Smarmy Bill Maher At It Again...

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Saturday May 12, 2007 · 6:25 PM PDT

2007/05/12 · 18:25

Those of us living in L.A., gay or straight, are saddened at the fires here and relieved that Griffith Park and Catalina Island survived. Not so with that apparently unhappy heterosexual Bill Maher. Who watches this unoriginal smirking troll anyway?

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Rev. Eatwell's Last Hurrah....

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Friday March 09, 2007 · 7:06 PM PST

2007/03/09 · 19:06

I was afraid Jerry Baby would fade away in some Virginia Twilight Home For The Viciously Obese. I needn't have worried. Jerry ("Did I say Ellen DeGenerate? Gosh, a slip of the tongue, I swear on this Bible") Falwell has grabbed onto scummy Newt the way Norma Desmond got her hooks into Joe Gillis in "Sunset Blvd."

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Sunday February 18, 2007 · 11:41 AM PST

2007/02/18 · 11:41

Can anyone pry these two loose from the Government Tit? I'd like for all KOS readers to remind anyone who will listen that Mitch McConnell is married to the U.S. Secretary of Labor, Elaine ("what means minimum wage?") Chao. How many of you knew that....raise your hands? Quite the Washington power couple cashing all those government paychecks month after month. All those corporations eager to have their wheels greased get another set of Bush Twins. As Paris might say when she's lucid, "That's Not Hot." Talk about having Presidential excess.

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Haliburton on Toast?

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Wednesday November 08, 2006 · 1:32 PM PST

2006/11/08 · 13:32

Thanks to Daily Kos, I have an overactive imagination. I wish there had been a place this morning after the election to make book on when Hastert, Rumsfeld, Cheney and maybe even our Prez would resign. Punish Nancy the only way we know how. Make her President for two years. It's the Gingrich Rule, stupid: If I can't play the game any way I want, I won't play. Once you've been hot shit, who wants to be cold mashed potatoes, just another elected official trying to make America a better place for the poor and struggling and helpless. Puleeeze. What kind of a sap do you take these old neocons for! Read More

The Wizard of Drudge

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Friday October 06, 2006 · 12:35 PM PDT

2006/10/06 · 12:35

When Dorothy and Toto and the needy wierdos she picked up along the way arrived at Oz to wheedle some freebees from the all-powerful Wizard, they were disappointed to find instead some wimpy, timid, guilt-ridden, not very bright, whiny guy hiding in a closet behind a curtain, pulling levers, flashing lights and using a voice deepening device to sound masculine. A phony. A disapointment, A bust. A real freak show. But the Wizard of Oz had one thing going for him: he understood, as did his distant cousin Dr. Phil, that people don't like acknowledging and managing their own power. That people are frightened of what they're capable of. That the Great Unwashed would rather subcontract out their precious intelligence to greedy, over-compensating hacks. Read More

Quick, close the shades......

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Friday March 03, 2006 · 6:36 PM PST

2006/03/03 · 18:36

When I heard that our strutting, without-doubt President had to sneak into Islamabad with the landing lights off and the shades lowered on proud, majestic Air Force One, symbol of U.S. pride and leadership, I thought, "Gosh, there's irony in there somewhere." Stealth government. Stealth wiretapping. Stealth Cheney. Stealth Ports deal. Stealth landing. What goes around comes around.
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Not To Worry, Larry David

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Monday January 02, 2006 · 3:36 PM PST

2006/01/02 · 15:36

Maybe Larry David has a little extra time on his hands, a relationship gone bad, worries about losing his hair, chronic heartburn, who knows. It's okay with me if Mr. David wants to skip Brokeback Mountain. It's kinda sad though that Larry David needs to recycle an old Seinfeld episode or two and see his name in print in the New York Times to notify us that he won't be attending That Movie.

I remember a scene in a film called "In And Out" when Joan Cusack screams out, "Do you know how many times I had to sit through "Funny Lady" to Kevin Kline who has discovered that he's gay just before their wedding.

Should I regret all the Seinfelds I've watched? Of course not. Nothing rubbed off except the talent of Mr. David and the perfect cast. I repeat the lines to some friends and I never understand when they stare at me blankly and respond with, "Never watched it." "Too hetero." "Too Jewish." Call me naive but I only noticed the good work. Read More

President Condi.....

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Wednesday December 21, 2005 · 8:23 AM PST

2005/12/21 · 08:23

It's the Summer of '06. The paralyzed government is sinking deeper into the mire with Delay and Frist indicted by Fitzgerald, testifying repeatedly and producting voluminous records. Indicted Karl Rove has resigned and is negotiating a plea bargain. Libby remains out on bail while his conviction is appealed.

Cheney has been in isolation, hooked up to machines all day when he receives a heart transplant from a famous wrestler whose has died under mysterious circumstances. Soon after surgery, Cheney issues a statement resigning and calling the American people "trailer trash morons" who can't be trusted to govern themselves and challenging Hillary Clinton to go "a few rounds, anytime, anywhere."

Bush's people have restricted his appearances since his agitation and defensiveness have evolved into episodes of violence and spontaneous profanity at press conferences. The last straw was calling David Gregory a piece of donkey shit and almost tipping over Helen Thomas' wheelchair. Read More

"Why do they all look like unhappy rabbits?"

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Monday December 19, 2005 · 2:24 PM PST

2005/12/19 · 14:24

Anyone who saw Marilyn Monroe in "All About Eve" won't forget the honest but naive question she asked at Margo Channing's doomed party. Marilyn (Miss Caswell) was sitting on the steps with the elite members of Margo's world including Margo and Addison DeWitt, famed critic and Marilyn (Miss Caswell's) mentor.

Feeling her oats, having landed in the big leagues and wanting to say something smart to this group, Miss Caswell surveyed the producers and directors at the party, the money men, obsessed with power, insecure, on the make, and queried, "Why do they all look like unhappy rabbits?" Addison DeWitt smiled patiently and replied, "Because that's what they are, my dear."

Watching Rumsfeld unfocused and defensive, and Cheney in Iraq with his crooked, condescending smile pretending to dine with styrofoam and plastic, and Bush practically jumping up and down before the mikes, his body language telegraphing "Mommy, I didn't do anything wrong," I thought to myself, "Why do they all look like unhappy rabbits?"

Poet Sharon Olds Said No To Laura

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Monday November 28, 2005 · 2:41 PM PST

2005/11/28 · 14:41

Sharon Olds is one of my favorite modern poets. I am sharing some of her recent eloquence with my fellow Kossacks.

The letter that follows is an open letter from the poet Sharon Olds to Laura Bush declining the invitation to read and speak at the National Book Critics Circle Award in Washington, DC. Sharon Olds, winner of National Book Critics Circle Award and professor of creative writing at NYU, was invited along with a number of other writers by First Lady Laura Bush to read from their works.

Dear Mrs. Bush,

I am writing to let you know why I am not able to accept your kind invitation to give a presentation at the National Book Festival, or to attend your dinner at the Library of Congress or the breakfast at the White House. In one way, it's a very appealing invitation. Read More

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