http://genenash.com/blog Sun, 06 Jul 2008 19:25:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en When I saw Superman Returns, one of the previews which flickered onto the screen was for M. Night Shyamalan's Lady in the Water. People openly mocked it. Not just a couple disaffected teen slackers sitting too close to the screen, no, all types of people all over the theater. They ... http://genenash.com/blog/blog/2008/06/13/people-are-so-over-m-night-shyamalan/ The other day I wrote that John McCain had (inadvertently?) called President Bush "a fool or a fraud" in a recent campaign ad, when he said, "Only a fool or a fraud talks tough or romantically about war." I concluded that article by writing: ...can you deny George "I can hardly be ... http://genenash.com/blog/blog/2008/06/13/did-bush-take-mccains-slam-to-heart/ I love the conspiracy theories flying over Big Brown not only losing the final leg of the Triple Crown but coming in dead last. He was supposed to win, don't you know?! Obviously if he lost there must be some dark secret behind it! Some of the theories I've heard: Gamblers had ... http://genenash.com/blog/blog/2008/06/10/big-brown-lost-because/ “No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.” -- Henry Adams   After spending the last four years crawling up W's backside to be declared his heir apparent (seems you don't have to fool all the people all ... http://genenash.com/blog/blog/2008/06/10/mccain-calls-bush-a-fool-or-a-fraud/ I hate it when they do a bad job of recasting voice talent. The current voice of Ernie the Keebler elf sets my ears on edge every time I hear him. Worse, it's been so long since I've heard the original guy, I've forgotten what he sounded like. But I still ... http://genenash.com/blog/blog/2008/06/10/you-dont-sound-like-yourself/ I grew up in the era of the great rivalry between the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics. I suffered through Final after Final of Boston trouncing the Lakers, and I reveled in the Lakers first triumph which led to their dynastic ascendancy and the fading into obscurity and ... http://genenash.com/blog/blog/2008/06/09/i-cant-believe-im-saying-this/ My first article after moving this blog from JoeUser to here proclaimed, "Welcome to the new blog, same as the old blog," but it's not the same blog, is it? The articles are shorter, more facetious, less often updated, and (almost counter-intuitively) far less personal. I believe it all comes down ... http://genenash.com/blog/blog/2008/05/25/not-the-same-old-blog-after-all/ This from unNEWSual.com (which I happen to own): One Israeli tourist in New Zealand, however, was fed up with the constant attention from male Kiwis, so when a rowdy band of road workers started wolf whistling she decided to put them in their place -- by taking off her clothes! Reuters quotes ... http://genenash.com/blog/blog/2008/05/25/woman-gets-naked-to-shut-up-annoying-men/ This today from TMZ (by way of MomLogic.com) regarding Hillary Clinton and coconuts: Apparently Chelsea wanted to try a coconut when she was 4-years-old, and Hill tried to grant her daughter's wish. The Senator managed to find a coconut in Arkansas, but couldn't crack it when she finally got it home. ... http://genenash.com/blog/blog/2008/05/05/its-called-a-hammer/ "The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep." -- Jesus (John 10:11) What kind of "shepherd" is the wrong Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.? Does going all over television this past weekend, "defending" himself and further spouting his bigoted lunacy at the expense of his good friend and congregant ... http://genenash.com/blog/blog/2008/04/30/wright-is-the-bad-shepherd/