Elayne Riggs' Journal (for Leah)

Monday, February 19, 2007

Presidents Day Specials

Kyle Baker celebrates both Presidents Day and Black History Month by pointing to this part of Dick Gregory's site revealing that a black man (a Moor) was actually our country's first President. I'm 49 years old and until this day I had no idea there were any Presidents before George Washington!

John Rogers brilliantly skewers why Fox's so-called right-wing comedy show doesn't work. Operative paragraph:
Comedy is truth, truth is reality, and if "Reality has a well-known liberal bias" for now, anyway, you just have to suck that up if your job is the funny. One party has boring, earnest junior Senators with competing health plans running for President. The other party has the guy in charge of fighting child pornography online soliciting minors online, a Senator who talked about "man on dog" action, a State Representative who doesn't believe the Earth revolves around the Sun, and a Vice-President who won on an anti-gay platform with a gay daughter who's pregnant with another woman's child, which may be why he shot a dude in the face. Nobody's fault Fate stacked dealt one player the "goofy" cards for the last few hands.
And speaking of teevee, I will be guest-blogging tonight at Lance Mannion's place, which I totally can't believe I'm worthy of doing when I read brilliant pieces like this one ostensibly reviewing Bridge to Terabithia but actually about so much more. Anyway, the reason I'll be there is that Lance has graciously invited me to live-blog possibly the last-aired episode of Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, so viewers are invited to join me between 10 and 11 PM Eastern and leave appropriately snarky remarks and Aaron Sorkin World drinking game suggestions in the comments.

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