Category Archives: WTF?

The Jack and the Beanstalk Memo

The possibly apocryphal story is that an unknown number of years ago, a major Hollywood studio wanted to remake the children’s fable “Jack and the Beanstalk” for a modern audience.  A script that stuck closely to the original tale was submitted … Continue reading

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Judge Vega on Teabagger Walsh: “He’s No Different Than Anyone Else”

Loudmouthed Republican Congresscreature Joe Walsh (not the guiter-playing rocker, of course) has spent his short career in national politics knocking others for not taking responsibilty for their actions, as well as being a general Tea Party douchebag about everything else. But … Continue reading

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What America Did For Entertainment Before the Inner-Tubes Stole Our Brains

All I can tell you is that this video says a band called — ho, ho — ‘The Genteels’ performed this grimace-inducing monstrosity named “Take It Off!” and that looks like the great Mamie Van Doren doing the striptease. I … Continue reading

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Today’s Quotes: Can We Have Some Capital Gains?

Or, You Don’t Know Jack… I once read some emails on the Innertubes authored by MoDo, AKA Maureen Dowd, notorious columnist for the New York Times. Dowd is an intelligent woman and a good writer, even if I don’t always … Continue reading

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Mother Tongue-Tied

Multilingual people from non-English-speaking countries say English is the hardest major language in the world to master; as well as the conundrum of why we have words like enough, though, through, thorough, and thought where the ‘ough’ is pronounced differently, … Continue reading

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Obama Advisors Feared Coup if He Prosecuted Bush Administration Officials for War Crimes

I have thought this might be the case for some time — that the infamous and well-entrenched Military-Industrial-Intelligence Complex in this country would simply overthrow or assassinate Obama if he, or, more precisely, Eric Holder’s DOJ, tried to prosecute Bush, … Continue reading

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Why Are the Feds Picking on Gibson Guitars?

Supposedly it’s because they are using exotic imported woods such as ebony and rosewood — which they’ve been doing for generations and which are not commonly grown in the US.  (The best ebony for musical instruments is grown in East Africa, although … Continue reading

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