Wednesday, April 4, 2012

Daily Links - April 4, 2012

A joke I read on the internet:
What's a commonly heard pick-up line at a Santorum event?
"Hey, want to go to my place and challenge our commitment to abstinence?"
Onto the links...

There was some weather in Texas yesterday. Here are some pictures.

"This is what happens when political narrative overrides journalistic impulse. Imagine how different this story might have been spun if the dominant opinion-journalism narrative going around was about how the Republican Party was at long last ditching gay panic in favor of robust fiscal reform. Brooks and the rest of 'em ought to be ashamed of themselves, but they won't be."

Seventeen lost minutes of 2001: A Space Odyssey have been found. Let's keep those as a Blu-ray bonus feature, please. Splicing them back in, especially without Kubrick around (the guy who originally excised them), would be awful.

The story of Ford's bailout-and-bankruptcy-less comeback. That's nice if it were true. The article fails to mention that they, and just about every car company on earth, took loans from the Fed. (I will admit there is a difference between taking a government loan that was paid back and having the government become a shareholder that will most likely lose money, but still... fuck 'em.)

Arizona acts like Arizona.

NBC apologizes for editing audio to make George Zimmerman sound like a racist. But they didn't apologize to Zimmerman for practically slandering him. Rather, they apologized to their viewers. How sweet.

Vince Gilligan talks a bit about the final season of Breaking Bad. No spoilers. Related: Apparently the final season is being split into two mini-seasons. Boo.

I'm as pro-drug legalization as they come. Crack, heroin, meth, whatever. I'm even all about getting rid of prescription drug laws. If I want codeine, I should be able to buy it OTC. So, keep that in mind when I write that Mikel Leshoure and Nick Fairley are morons.You are set to make millions of dollars a year over the next decade barring some unforeseen injury. Why would you put that career at risk for some pot?

What Dr. Strangelove was almost titled.

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