Jul

Journalism, 1916-2009

Posted by MGK Published in Auf Wiedersehen Goodbye

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Jul

Friday West Wing

Posted by MGK Published in Nothing Else Fit

5 comments

Jul

Five bucks says…

Posted by MGK Published in Comics

…that over the course of Blackest Night, two things happen. 1.) A whole ton of DC characters are horribly and brutally murdered by zombies. 2.) A whole ton of DC characters who become zombies are miraculously revived so we can return to the status quo. This is because Blackest Night is, I suspect, the apotheosis […]

57 comments

Jul

Thursday WHO’S WHO: The Monocle

Posted by MGK Published in Comics, Who's Who

Sometimes a good comic can make a big mistake. In Manhunter, that mistake was killing off the Monocle. This is because the Monocle was a pretty goddamned great supervillain. First off, he has exactly the right amount of tragedy in his origin to be one of your more compelling supervillains. He was an honest businessman […]

33 comments

Jul

PEOPLE ARE WRONG (and also on the internet)

Posted by MGK Published in Politics, WTF

From the fine folks in California who want to crucify illegal immigrants and also set up a Bear Patrol comes this: The plan: a California ballot initiative that would end public benefits for illegal immigrants, cut off welfare payments for their children and impose new rules for birth certificates. “We will be out in full […]

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Jul

SYTYCD Bloggin’

Posted by MGK Published in Obligatory So You Think You Can Dance Category, TV

Your guest judge is Debbie Allen, and one can’t really have a truly negative opinion about Debbie Allen, so that’s good. Also, commercials for SYTYCD Canada! August 11, babeeee. Top five girls: Bollywood. The judges worshipped this, but honestly it wasn’t that great. Randi was obviously sloppy. Melissa was frequently off the beat and also […]

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Jul

UPDATE: Betty Cooper still insane

Posted by MGK Published in Archie (Improved Or Otherwise), Comics

Jaime Weinman: “The thing that struck me most is that Mr. Weatherbee just seems to accept that once Betty has got a victim in her little school-approved torture chamber, it’s “too late” to stop her. Unless he’s just assuming that Veronica has already been suffocated to death and that Betty is trying to force the […]

24 comments

Jul

Sarah Palin is still an idiot.

Posted by MGK Published in David Suzuki Says You're Bad, Politics, The Miscellaneous Sciences And Crap Like That, WTF

The Quitbull in her brand new Wall Street Journal Washington Post op-ed that she totally wroted herself: There is no denying that as the world becomes more industrialized, we need to reform our energy policy and become less dependent on foreign energy sources. But the answer doesn’t lie in making energy scarcer and more expensive! […]

39 comments

Jul