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This is the pilot for a show that never came to be called Lookwell, starring Adam West (of Batman fame) as “a washed-up TV action hero who falsely believes he can solve crimes in real life.” It was written by Conan O’Brien and Robert Smigel (of Triump the Insult Comic Dog and TV Funhouse fame). It’s drop dead hilarious.
And who’s fault is that? Whoever thought this photo-op was a good idea should be fired. I suspect that many will have the same reaction that I did: sadness and disgust.
I can’t believe we have national leaders who waste their time (our time!) on crap like a constitutional amendment to ban flag desecration when we have no energy policy, we’re essentially fighting three wars (on non-state radical Islam, in Afghanistan and in Iraq), we have a still suffering Gulf Coast (with hurricane season coming) and on and on…
update: It’s worse than I thought:
House Republicans intend to hold votes this summer and fall touching on abortion, guns, religion and other priority issues for social conservatives, part of an attempt to improve the party’s prospects in the midterm elections.
It doesn’t get much media attention when John Edwards isn’t attached to it (see below), but it’s growing:
With offices in 106 cities and a membership reported to be 200,000, ACORN has emerged in recent years as the largest neighborhood-based antipoverty group in the country, using old-fashioned methods of door-knocking and noisy protests to push for local and national causes. It plans to open an office in 20 new cities each year for the next five years, an expansion in response to the strong grip conservatives have in Washington and to the travails of the working poor.
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“What sets ACORN apart from most community groups,” said Peter Dreier, an urban planning expert at Occidental College in Los Angeles, “is its ability to combine local projects with coordinated national action on larger issues.”
From USA Today:
The nation’s top climate scientists are giving An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore’s documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy.
Much of Google Video is free today. I highly recommend this interview from Charlie Rose with Barack Obama and this one with William F. Buckley.
Don’t doubt it. From Atrios:
According to a Move On email in one day their fundraising email raised $300,000 for Ned Lamont, Patrick Murphy, and Diane Farrell, with the bulk of it presumably going to Lamont.
This seems like a question we want to avoid in the future:
“Do we have a functioning code of federal laws?”
In other news:
The United States wants to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay but needs assurances that detainees won’t pose a security risk or face torture when they’re sent to other countries, a senior U.S. State Department official said Monday.
Can’t we just send them to the secret prisons?
Kerry is making noise:
Decrying political timidity in Washington and denouncing the Bush administration as anti-science and pro-Big Oil, Sen. John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) yesterday outlined a program to combat climate change and move the United States toward energy independence, including mandates to cut consumption of foreign oil.
Isn’t it nice to see that running for President the second time seems to involve saying things?
Can liberals raise money if they are afraid to talk about it? (And sub-question, if they’re ashamed might they spend a little more time on campaign finance?)
Could I possibly make sense of the world without Passport’s Morning Brief?
And finally, why am I stealing the cheap tricks of the Note in order to cover a lot of information in one post without saying much myself?
I loved the Muppets when I was a youngster (Rowlf the Dog was always my favorite), but I’d never realized that it’s also hilarious and entertaining for adults (which I now, begrudgingly, consider myself). Enjoy the show, and check out the second and third parts here.