President Obama and Governor Romney disagree on many things, but on one thing, they see eye to eye: Toby Keith and Kristen Bell.
Rick Perry? Jim Carrey? Separated at Birth?
August 29, 2011 by Leave a Comment
You gotta admit it. This pose…
looks remarkably a lot like this pose…
“One of these two Mormons could be our next president…the other is Jon Huntsman.”
August 16, 2011 by Leave a Comment
In the arena of both “funny” and “perhaps too true,” The Colbert Report had a segment on Mormons. Click on the picture below to watch it.
A few highlights to watch for:
- Mormon = weird…as defined by a guy who looks great, has great hair, and was the weird guy in high school with all the friends and won that weird state football championship.
- Joseph Smith is weird for receiving gold plates from an angel just like Moses is weird for receiving stone tablets from God in a burning bush.
- Is the new Mormon ad campaign promoting a religion or Spike T.V.?
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- Mitt Romney, Jon Huntsman Have Different Takes On Mormon Faith (huffingtonpost.com)
- Mitt Romney and “the Mormon Question.” (lawafterthebar.wordpress.com)
- GOP rivals have different takes on Mormon faith (boston.com)
- Mormons Duck Political Duel (online.wsj.com)
- Group aims to dispel Mormon myths, explain beliefs ()
“It is therefore ordered and adjudged”: a (successful) mixing of metaphors from the bench.
August 1, 2011 by Leave a Comment
Grintegrity: Learn it. Know it. See it.
May 9, 2011 by 3 Comments
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Nation–do you know grintegrity when you see it?
Grintegrity: expressing joy while reporting on the misfortune of others.
We (my Better Half and I) thought it was just another funny moment on the Colbert Report–Stephen Colbert making fun of talking heads who seemed to rejoice at the problems President Obama is facing with high gas prices. That was, at least, until we started seeing it on the faces of our local reporters as the reported on the potential for floods around the state.
Yes, we were watching you, Jed Boal. (“And in other news, killer bees have entered Utah!”)
Suddenly, it looked like reporters really were happy at the misfortune of others. I suspect they were not really “happy,” per se, but just smiling (a lot), but, what can I say? It’s a little…creepy?
Check it out around 2:25. Do you ever see it?
Yeah. Funny, but scarily close to reality. And a good reminder why I skip the broadcast media so often.
APROPOS: “Thank you golden helmeted noise warrior…”
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And the funniest guy on the Supreme Court is…
March 4, 2011 by Leave a Comment
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All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. And Chief Justice Roberts has taken that to heart.
On Monday, while the Supreme Court was taking oral arguments and handing down opinions, the Chief took several opportunities to poke fun and to shoot off a witty question.
After handing down a unanimous opinion rejecting AT&T’s argument that because corporations can be considered persons for free speech purposes, they can also be considered to have privacy rights like persons, too, Roberts, writing for the Court, took AT&T to task, denying that corporations have anything like “personal privacy” for purposes of FOIA (Freedom of Information Act). As reported by Slate writer Dahlia Lithwick, the Chief had started during oral arguments for the case:
[T]he chief spent the better part of the hour poking fun at AT&T’s claim that the adjective personal means the same thing as the noun person, such that the statute’s treatment of corporations as “persons” means that corporations are also somehow capable of getting “personal.” As he explained at argument, that claim makes no sense. “I tried to sit down and come up with other examples where the adjective was very different from the root noun,” he observed at the time. “It turns out it is not hard at all. You have craft and crafty. Totally different. Crafty doesn’t have much to do with craft. Squirrel, squirrely. Right? I mean, pastor—you have a pastor and pastoral. Same root, totally different.”
It didn’t stop at oral arguments, either. The opinion took a jab, too.
“The protection in FOIA against disclosure of law enforcement information on the ground that it would constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy does not extend to corporations. We trust that AT&T will not take it personally.”
Catch the article, including when Justice Scalia got into the act, too, over at Slate.com.
APROPOS: court artist Art Lien added a few extra flourishes to his work on Monday to accentuate the lighter mood, drawing Justice Scalia as a cat and Chief Justice Roberts with a cob of corn in his hand.
Related articles
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“Does new Supreme Court decision in FOIA case stop Citizens United in its tracks?” and related posts (foiadvocate.blogspot.com)
- John Roberts Pokes Fun at AT&T’s ‘Personal Privacy’ (abovethelaw.com)
- Supreme Court Rejects Corporate “Personal Privacy” FOIA Argument (pogoblog.typepad.com)
- Is John Roberts the funniest Supreme Court justice ever? (slate.com)
