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If I may delve into the worlds of sports and popular culture for a minute or two, and now that his divorce is final, I have a question I would like to ask Mr. Eldrick Woods. Was it worth it? Was it worth losing your wife (a former Swedish swimsuit model, you moron. What the hell do you want?) your children, your reputation, your carefully constructed image, somewhere in the neighborhood of $500 million-give or...

David Limbaugh: President Obama is a "narcissist" he's "Messianic" and he "truly believes he is a god with a small g": <br />nar·cis·sism  n.1. Excessive love or admiration of oneself.     See also your brother, David. He thinks he's God with a capital G....

I had a unique opportunity to observe a fascinating process that perfectly illustrates why we're where we are as a nation. I attended an American Idol open call audition in another city this year as an observer. For those who aren't familiar with what their audition process is, I'll share some info. We arrived very early in the morning the day before the open call with our photo ID and proof of citizenship in...

Here's the one telling sentence in an article at the Washington Post on the results of a Pew poll showing that an increasing number of Americans, including more than a third of those who identify themselves as conservative Republicans, believe that President Obama is a Muslim:"Among those who say Obama is a Muslim, 60 percent say they learned about his religion from the media, suggesting that their opinions are fueled by misinformation.""Misinformation?" No, the word...

This seems like a stupid question to ask. Of course extremism is a bad thing. Fox News has been making their living off of making the extreme seem palatable. E.J. Dionne wrote about that this week in the Washington Post. You can read the article in its entirety above, but there were a couple of excerpts I found very telling. He is right of course and I could just reprint his article and save a...

Reading the right-wing blogs so you don't have to. Hey, it's a tough job but somebody has to do it. Today's episode is the "EXPLOSIVE" new video at Conservatives4Palin of Katie Couric "mocking" Sarah Palin. "New" being the day Palin was announced as John McCain's running mate. <br />Here's their take on what was heard and, more importantly (insert ominous organ music here) what wasn't heard. "As you can see, the video shows Katie Couric...

Normally I agree with Ed Schultz, but this is just stupid:"And I'm announcing today, I'm not going to vote in the midterms. I'm not going to do it. You can say it's un-American. No, it's rather revolutionary is what it is. I'm at that point. I'm checking out.I'm checking out of the Democrats because they are proving to me that they don't know how to handle these big babies over on the right that say...

Some of you that may know me have heard this story before. I may even have printed it at the Chronicle or here in the early days. If so, it bears repeating. As an undergraduate, I had the pleasure of writing weekly columns for the TCU Daily Skiff. One semester I was selected to the Opinion Editor. As the Opinion Editor, I managed about a dozen different columnists and was primarily responsible for writing the...

The bloviator-in-chief yesterday, from behind the golden microphone at the Excrement In Broadcasting Network: "On his show Thursday, Limbaugh blasted [Fox News anchor Shepard] Smith for not showing the video, suggesting that Smith only showed restraint because he didn't have the "guts" to show it. "Even Fox caved on this. Even poor old Shep Smith went down there and said that everybody's wrong on this, that Breitbart is wrong and so forth," Limbaugh said during...

Really. Desperado has already discussed the Sherrod incident here, shared excellent commentary here and here, so I won't rehash the whole mess.  You know what happened. But it's ok, really, it's not the right-wing media's fault, you see.  According to Ann Coulter, Breitbart was set-up by evil liberals.  The whole key to this story is that Andrew Breitbart was set-up. He was sent a tape as we now know was massively out of context. It didn't look...