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Leigh Scott

It’s a Trap!!!!!

by Leigh Scott

It’s a Trap!!!

Admiral Ackbar is one of my favorite characters in the Star Wars franchise.  He still looks more real than any CGI character today despite being brought to life by 1982 technology.  He also has the immortal line, “It’s a Trap,” when the rebels discover that the Death Star is “fully armed and operational.”

In case you missed it, here’s Ackbar reacting to other “traps.”


Conservatives have walked into a trap of late, or as Michael Steele might say, “have stepped in it.” Why should the liberals, with their rogues gallery of freak shows and incompetents, even sweat it when the Conservatives are too busy fighting with each other?  How much time on blogs, cable news, and Sunday talk-shows is dedicated to Conservatives arguing about the direction of the “party” or challenging each other on the authenticity of their Conservative credentials? (more…)

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Posted May 29th 2009 at 6:47 am in Media Criticism, Politics, Video | No Comments

Ride 2 Recovery

Ride 2 Recovery: Memorial Challenge

by Ride 2 Recovery


National Memorial Concert

The second annual Ride 2 Recovery Memorial Challenge is from May 25-30. For the first time, the event started with a cycling clinic featuring Olympic cyclist Wayne Stetina and former Mercury Cycling Team mechanic Scott Moro. With support from cycling professional like Gary Hanson and Neil Stewart, Vietnam vets Jim Penseyres and Duane Wagner, all of the R2R participants had a great deal of knowledge to learn the ins and outs of riding and healing.

The clinic really helped get the R2R participants oriented on their bikes and almost all of them had their riding positions fixed up and this will make for a much more comfortable ride.

The Wounded Warriors that participate in the Ride 2 Recovery events have come from all over the US and almost all service branches are represented. Many of these brave men and women have seen their friends and fellows soldiers not return from Iraq and Afghanistan. Memorial Day is not just another day off. (more…)

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Posted May 25th 2009 at 1:48 pm in Military | No Comments

Riley Hunter

Obama’s War on English

by Riley Hunter

In an age when a waiter is a server, an actress is a female actor, and a dubiously-competent socialist cult leader is an American president, it was only a matter of time before the “Global War on Terror” became an “Overseas Contingency Operation” (OCO).  Thus Spoke Zarathustra this week via a memo sent to the Pentagon and select speech writers, officially establishing Team Obama’s redesigned terminology.  The War is over, long live the Operation! This should show the road-side bombers, suicide bombers, bombers-in-burqas, snipers-for-Allah, and other assorted, blood-thirsty, Jihadist savages that the US really means business now.  Victory through euphemism!

The unveiling of OCO capped-off a terror euphemism trifecta for the administration.  Previously, the Justice Department scrapped the ghastly “enemy combatant” to describe war prisoners in favor of the much more uplifting, “detainee.”  Additionally, Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano─who may be the only member of the administration more intellectually troubled than Tim Geitner─rebranded terrorism as “man-caused disaster.” (To review:  mail carrier; police officer; business person; but man-caused disaster… maybe the errant sexism has something to do with Ms. Napolitano’s romantic leanings.)   (more…)

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Posted Mar 27th 2009 at 11:13 am in Featured Story, Politics | 3 Comments

Stage Right

Jude…

by Stage Right

I think Hugh Jackman is grabbing a nice, wark tuscan hummus from the CPK behind the Kodak…

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Posted Feb 22nd 2009 at 6:25 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments

Stage Right

Willingham, Long…:

by Stage Right

I feel compelled to point out that “Cop Rock” is not the best example of “Showtunes”… 

It’s like saying:  “I love love films about the Middle East… “Ishtar” is my favorite!”

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Posted Feb 22nd 2009 at 5:04 pm in Uncategorized | No Comments

Stage Right

BOLD PREDICTION:

by Stage Right

Same-sex marriage will be the most mentioned “Cause” of the evening.

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Posted Feb 22nd 2009 at 4:57 pm in Uncategorized | One Comment

Stage Right

My wife wants you all to know…

by Stage Right

that Kate Winslet’s eyebrows drive here absolutely nuts!  Anyone else have a problem with Winslet’s eyebrows?  Anyone?

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Posted Feb 22nd 2009 at 4:52 pm in Uncategorized | 3 Comments

Kathryn Jean Lopez

Bush had “people banished to a free speech gulags”

by Kathryn Jean Lopez

A lot of you here in Big Hollywood live in the real Hollywood so maybe you have a map to this alternative reality Steven Weber lives in? As I saw the last eight years, whether it was at a convention, in Crawford, on the Mall, or even in Iraq, there were always people speaking freely and often crassly (or with shoes) about the president. And right until the end — George W. Bush was shamefully mocked this morning at the Capitol. Perhaps his Wings allow Weber to travel to Stalin’s Russia or Hitler’s Germany, or, contemporarily, Chinese Laogais. Otherwise, his reality is a mystery to me.

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Posted Jan 20th 2009 at 2:03 pm in Celebrity News | 73 Comments

Bill Willingham

Superheroes: Still Plenty of Super, But Losing Some of the Hero

by Bill Willingham

Just as all movies aren’t westerns, all comics aren’t superheroes. Far from it. But superheroes are still one of (if not the) dominant genres in the comic book industry, and by far comprise the major output of our two largest American comics publishers, Marvel and DC. More to the point, it’s the comic book genre I want to focus on here.

DC’s greatest icon, Superman, one of the handful of fictional characters known throughout the world, no longer seems to be too proud of America. He still finds occasion to mention he fights for truth and justice, but no longer finishes that famous line with, “…and the American way.” Then again, according to the most recent movie, he’s become a creepy stalker and a deadbeat dad, so maybe not openly linking himself to the American ideal isn’t such a bad thing.

Marvel’s legendary patriot Captain America, in a comic book story published shortly after 9/11 spent a good part of the issue apologizing to the super terrorist he was battling about all of the terrible things America did in its pursuit of the cold war against the Soviets. “(But) we’ve changed. We’ve learned,” he whines. “My people never knew!” Then again, at least ol’ Cap was fighting the bad guy, so maybe there’s still hope.

Except that In another later appearance, in a different title (same company) Captain America willingly goes along with a government cover-up of a incident that resulted in massive civilian casualties. He not only goes along with it, he doesn’t even bat an eye when asked to do so.

Then again Cap’s dead now, so problem solved, right?

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Posted Jan 9th 2009 at 1:50 pm in Entertainment, Media Criticism | 212 Comments