I checked out Deuce Bigalow one night to see if it was as bad as it seemed, and darned if I didn't find myself laughing out loud. Of course, it helps that I was alone that evening, and didn't have to explain why I found that "Did you say 'steak?'" line to be hilarious, along with the scene with Amy Poehler as the Tourette's girl, which has millions of YouTube hits.

However, I didn't wanna go near Deuce 2 -- the gag with the veiled Chernobyl girl with a phallus where her nose should be is something I didn't want in my head ever.

The farther removed we are from the Reagan era, the more I think that the GOP is using his successful Presidency to bolster itself knowing full well that he only was able to accomplish anything by bucking their system.

On top of that, I think that the establishment is doing what it can to wait out Reaganism as if it were a virus -- why else push guys like Dole, HW Bush, W Bush, McCain, & now Romney to the front of the line, and marginalize the Tea Party after it against long odds gave it a strong majority in the House?

What am I missing here? According to this account, Romney...

1. Voted for Tsongas in the 1992 Dem primary because he was sure that the GOP would nominate VP Bush;
2. Voted for Tsongas in the 1992 Dem primary because he favored his ideas over those of Bill Clinton;
3. Voted for Tsongas in the 1992 Dem primary “to vote for the person who I thought would be the weakest opponent for a Republican”;
4. Voted for George H.W. Bush in the fall election.

I guess we're supposed to assume that he of course voted for Bush because he is a Republican, right? Or maybe it's because Tsongas couldn't beat Bill Clinton and give him the guy he really wanted?

Mitt, you gotta do better than this.

I have little respect for Kristen Wiig because she plays Nancy Pelosi as if she hasn't got mannerisms ripe for parody. The halting speech, the bug eyed stare, the forced smile, and most of all, the symmetrical arm and hand movements that make her look at times like an NFL referee. We have come to accept that Fred Armisen is too chicken to try to do an effective Obama, but SNL has a tradition of socking it to everyone across the board, even Bill Clinton, done masterfully by both Phil Hartman & Darrell Hammond.

I am on record as being disgusted by this display, and my position on that will not change. IMHO, the guys who perpetrated this ought to be court-martialed for being stupid. That being said: This is yet another example of how the MSM is congenitally leftist and shifts its outrage to make sure their favorite figures are protected.

For example, in the aftermath of Abu Ghraib, there was no shortage of calls from the left to have Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld investigated in hopes that a connection might be found to the Oval Office, and George W. Bush could be impeached. MoveOn.org got a discount from the NY Times for its full page ad slamming Bush's General David Petraeus as "General Betray Us", but do you think that will be happening again now that he's Obama's Sec Def? Do you think anyone will demand hearings in which General after General will be asked to shift blame higher up until there are grounds to impeach President Obama?

Of course not. Because their loyalty is not to common sense or intellectual honesty, but to their favorite political team, the Fightin' Jackasses, and they don't care if they have to bend the rules to win.

Wow, what a drama queen this Keller guy is. Here's what he says at 1:12:

"Later, before a friendlier crowd in Windham, Santorum felt comfortable mocking the notion that he's too far right for the locals."

What Nahell Datmean? "I'm Jon Keller, and when I say Santorum's too far right for New Hampshire, how dare he mock me!"

What would have been instructive is the conversation about polygamy. I have a feeling that Keller didn't give much of that exchange because it's hard for same-sex marriage advocates to argue against polygamy. Instead of addressing the issue with intellectual honesty, they huff and puff and say "How DARE you!"

Thank you, Arlene, for giving us the facts.

It doesn't surprise me that Peter Ogburn works for a piece of (ahem) work like Bill Press, one of the most dishonest, slimy, shameless people I have ever observed in my forty or years as a news junkie.

It was Press who said John McCain's 2008 "Celeb" campaign ad was "deliberately and deceptively racist" because "[it juxtaposes] Barack Obama with Britney Spears and Paris Hilton [and] the McCain campaign is simply trying to plant the old racist seed of black man hitting on young white woman (sic). Not directly, but subliminally and disgracefully."

Ogburn apparently is employed by Press because he shares Press' ends-justify-the-means mentality.

I can't think of a more underrated musician than Joe Jackson. The guy tackled several different genres of music and excelled in them all. I was thinking about him a lot recently because I thought of "You Can't Get What You Want ('Til You Know What You Want)" as the theme for the Occupy movement.

I once made a list of '80s songs that touched on themes of pending nuclear holocaust, the Cold War, and general all-purpose Reagan-bashing. Among them: "The End of The Innocence" by Don Henley:

Oh beautiful, for spacious skies
But now those skies are threatening
They're beating plowshares into swords
For this tired old man we've elected King...

I've said it before, I'll say it again: There are some liberals who are sore that Reagan didn't blow up the world like they said he would.