Common Sense

I’m guessing (and this is just speculation since I’m not a lawyer) that holding your toddler hostage, having the police kick the door in and having Britney Spears strapped to a gurney with police riding in the ambulance and then being put under 72-hour “crazy watch” (my non-legal term) may mean that Britney Spears is […]

I’ve got some good news and some bad news.
The good news is that after much lobbying, cajoling, pleading and selling… I’ve finally gotten a blog from the Trib. In the next week, I’ll be starting it up, moving my Movie Blog archives over to it and writing my own little niche film blog where I […]

That’s my favorite joke going around right now about a former Baylor assistant coach who “pissed on the bar” at Scruffy Murphy’s last Saturday night after the Bears’ devastating 58-10 loss to Kansas.
Those that know me know I used to spend every night at Scruffy Murphy’s with my co-workers and that I’ve actually gotten on […]

Al Gore won the Nobel Peace Prize. I probably should have mentioned that before Tila Tequila.
John Dickerson wonders if this will make him rethink running for the White House. He hasn’t said definitively “no way,” but I don’t think he really wants to. It was such a harsh experience last time around, I can’t imagine […]

Apparently MTV has another reality show (Ed. note: Remember when you watched MTV for music videos? How old does that make me?) and this one stars Myspace hottie Tila Tequila.
In a twist on all those stodgy televised courtship tournaments, A Shot at Love sets 16 men and 16 women in pursuit of the heroine’s affections. […]

If you have a daughter under the age of 18, DO NOT DATE A MAN NAMED CHESTER!
Chester the Molestor, how hard is that to figure out? Oh, and if you have a daughter older than 18 who is hot, do not date a younger man with tattoos; he will end up banging her.
This is all […]

Slate seems to be taking the approach that sex sells because they have several stories today about sex.
Probably the creepiest is William Saletan discussing lowering the age of consent. He breaks consent down between three distinct areas: biological readiness which is around 12, age of cognitive readiness which is around 16 and age of emotional […]

I’ve been wrapped up in work at the Trib. It is football season after all. That means I work 5-6 days a week, daytime on Mondays and that my sleep cycle is thoroughly wrecked. I haven’t gotten a decent 7 hours of straight sleep in forever.
And I’m practically living off of take-out Chinese food and […]

Kathy Griffin managed to get the one reliably irate group to help spread her name around town: Christians.
PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) — Members of a Christian theater troupe are spreading the word that they’re irate about Kathy Griffin’s off-color speech in accepting a creative arts Emmy earlier this month.
The Miracle Theater in Pigeon Forge spent […]

I spent four minutes just now watching our president speak about the surge’s success in Anbar and I swear if I hear about Anbar being a success anymore, I’m going to hit someone over the head with my cane!
You know how we drove out AQI (all 200 of them) out of Anbar Province? We gave […]