Daily Archives: February 20, 2012

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Collected Santorum Dribblings: Volume One

Welcome to a new and exciting feature: The Collected Santorum Dribblings.

Rick Santorum, after a greasy slide to the front of the race for the Republican Presidential nomination, is finally being paid some serious attention by the national press.

Is this a good thing? Maybe not for him, maybe not for his campaign, but it’s certainly hilarious to poke fun at the worst Republican public speaker since Dubya ran to his hidey hole a few years back.

Let’s aim to not only make this a fun pursuit, but an educational one as well — it’s our duty as citizens to find a place to absorb all the Santorum dribs and drabs, to help us create a coherent picture of this candidate, made of all the squits and squirts of Santorum we find every day. Continue reading →

Coming Attractions: Chris Colfer Follows Juno, Easy A, and Comes of Age in Struck By Lightning

In this latest entry into the coming-of-age genre, Chris Colfer of angsty Glee fame, is now a snarky writer who wants nothing more than to be taken seriously, despite a bevy of underestimating adults, and has hopes of getting into the college of his choice, Northwestern University, even if he has to take down his entire high-school student body to get there. Continue reading →

Celebrity Apprentice Recap: The Strangest Mix of Stars Since Sha Na Na Played Woodstock

Welcome to the fifty-ninth season of Celebrity Apprentice, where money is no objec—oh whoops! Looks like budgets have been slashed because Donald Trump, the man of a million hair follicles, pulls up to Lincoln Center in a limousine instead of a helicopter. A limousine? How nouveau riche! He greets the eighteen “celebrities” on the stage of Avery Fischer Hall while a live orchestra plays his theme song in the background. Our eighteen “celebrities” are as follows: Continue reading →

The 2012 Television Pilot Season: John Stamos Refuses to Leave Television

Somebody really believes in the temple that is John Stamotopoulos, or as we know him, John Stamos, AKA Uncle Jesse. This Fall he will star in his now third television series since he last uttered the words “Have Mercy.” Good God. “Have Mercy?” This was a thing? Ok, yes, this was a thing. Somewhere a diehard fan with a trunk full of Tiger Beat magazines just marked Fall 2012 as the best television season ever. Continue reading →

The Walking Dead Recap: Right Back Where We Started

Hi zombies! I mean readers! Now where did we leave off last week? Oh right. Ranger Rick just killed Random Guy One and Random Guy Two, who would’ve/could’ve/should’ve been the most interesting characters on the show, while Shane and Blondie had a zombie bonfire. There’s also some chick in sticker shock at the price of barn zombies, and Lori crashed her car so she may be dead and/or not pregnant. So. Are they finally going to get off of the farm? Let’s find out, shall we? Continue reading →

Baldwin’s (Almost) Half-Season NBA Report: The West Edition

(A quick note from Bots: Baldwin’s post is only tangentially related to the Denver Nuggets’ old 90s logo but I always liked its Disco Tetris vibe, so we’re using it!)

With all teams having played between 28 and 32 out of the 66 games they will play in the compressed 123 day regular season, and time ticking down to the trade deadline, it’s a good time to take a look at where each team is, the answered questions, the unanswered questions, and maybe take a sneaky peek towards the playoffs. Continue reading →

Derek Thompson Might be America’s Most Underrated Blogger

Why doesn’t The Atlantic’s Derek Thompson get more attention? I rarely see his stuff linked from other big economics-oriented liberal bloggers and he seems to always be overshadowed by the other writers at his own publication — folks like James Fallows, Ta-Nahesi Coates and (barf) Megan McCardle.

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