Archive for May 26th, 2008
Hey, lady! You call him Dr. Jones!

Viacom Inc. estimates the fourth Indiana Jones movie pulled in an estimated $311 million in global sales through the Memorial Day weekend. In other news, I found a nickel in the cushions of my couch. Take that, Short Round.

At 70, Carlin still ‘here for the show’

“[I]f you’re rooting for a certain outcome, it kinda shows. And I just want a good show. I just want a good story that’s fun to talk about … “

Surprisingly refreshing

“[Barack Obama's] speech — delivered to a cross-section of the supportive, the skeptical and the plain curious — broke the pattern of condescension that has defined so many of these events in the past.”

Has political pandering to Cuban Americans become so commonplace that engaged discourse is actually astounding?