In case you didn’t see it, The Daily Show has posted the full, uncut interview with Bill Clinton.

STEWART: This is an election season… you picked a horse yet?

The second half of the interview is the good stuff.

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Finally somebody calls me out and I go into hiding for a full week. What a jerk I am.

Commenting on Reagancomics, which strayed from being about Reagan and comics and into entertainment vs. propaganda, Adouble poses two questions. Read the rest of this entry »

Everybody always says their school has changed after they’ve graduated, but here’s a little snippet from today’s Globe:

The ‘Bachelor’ and the students

“Bachelor No. 2″ stars Jason Biggs and Dane Cook took time out from filming on the Boston Common yesterday morning to sign autographs for Emerson College students. We hear their lovely costar Kate Hudson wasn’t on hand for the crack-of-dawn shoot. Biggs will make a return to Emerson next week for a meeting with students in the school’s acting program.

Would it have killed you guys to say you were from Suffolk on this one?

Remember the guy who forged the Obama interview? Well, as advertised, that wasn’t his only transgression.

Now, a slew of other leaders — former President Bill Clinton; House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; the former Federal Reserve chairman, Alan Greenspan; Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York; Bill Gates, the chairman of Microsoft; and former Secretary-General Kofi Annan of the United Nations — also told ABC News that Mr. Debat never talked to them for interviews published in the same French publication, Politique Internationale.

I know I have comments to respond to — and I will — but it’s a busy day. So here’s a quick post.

Five days ago in the Onion:

PHILADELPHIA—Frustrated with the Eagles’ last-second 16-13 loss to the Green Bay Packers last Sunday, and with quarterback Donovan McNabb’s failure to single-handedly score three touchdowns, prevent two of his teammates from muffing punts, or block any of Green Bay’s field goals, thousands of Philadelphia fans demanded that McNabb win an NFL championship for Philadelphia sometime within the next three weeks.

Today on ESPN.com:

McNabb, in an interview on “Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel,” tells interviewer James Brown that African-American quarterbacks such as himself face added pressure because there are fewer black QBs — and because some still don’t want black athletes playing the position.

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In the interview, McNabb also talks to Brown about playing in Philadelphia, a city known for passionate sports fans who aren’t afraid to criticize the city’s pro athletes.

“Every year I’m part of some criticism,” McNabb tells HBO. “But every day that we go through life, you’re faced with a lot of adversity. Now the answer is how do you handle the adversity. How do you respond?

I wouldn’t say the Onion scooped real life, but those guys seem to have pegged at least the general locus of this week’s football media dust-up.

Method acting is important. I was actually under the weather for the shooting of this video. Tune in next week, when Reid and I attack science in its home: smart people.

There’s a newly-released Ronald Reagan graphic novel. You can also catch much (all?) of it on Slate — Ronald Reagan: A Graphic Biography.

It reminds me of two wildly controversial TV miniseries: “The Path to 9/11″ (ABC) — as opposed to “The Road to 9/11″ (PBS) — and “The Reagans” (CBS/Showtime). Read the rest of this entry »

Saturdays are when I’ve decided to put just whatever here. Juuuust whatever. So today, I’ve decided to round up a few video clips of babies laughing because after a little while it gets downright scary. What’s your threshold?

The Onion has a fake column this week “by” Bill O’Reilly, titled “Maybe We Should Try Coddling The Terrorists:”

Take Osama bin Laden, for example. He’s still a sworn foe of mine, but trying to smoke him out of his hole hasn’t been working too well. We can’t seem to find this guy through violence and intimidation, so let’s send him a fruit basket instead. Let’s pamper him and the rest of his evil band of freedom haters.