My apologies ifsomeone on JU has already pointed this out.         There's aShockwave political cartoon that's taking the 'Net by storm. It hasJohn Kerry and George W. Bush dancing around and singing a veryfractured version of "This Land Is Your Land." Highlights include thecameos by Howard Dean and Bill Clinton. (Okay, the Clinton bitfinally got me to burst out laughing.)      &n...

         Localmedia outlets are reporting Linda Ronstadt had a trying timeduring her concert at the Aladdin resort in Las Vegas this weekend.         Ms. Ronstadt iscurrently on tour with what was billed (locally, at least) as agreatest hits show. Things got off to a bad start when she announcedup front to the audience that they shouldn't expect to hear her singher hit songs. She then proceed to make insulting c...

        In many of therecent "Fahrenheit 9/11" inspired discussions of Michael Moore, ourleft-leaning blogger friends would attempt to defend their pudgyanti-hero by decrying what they considered the right's "journalists"of excess: Ann Coulter and Rush Limbaugh. Again and again anytimesomething was said against Mr. Moore we'd hear, "What about Limbaughand Coulter, huh? Aren't they just as bad? Why don't you talk aboutthem, huh?"     ...

        I watched ArnoldSchwarzenegger's "Last Action Hero" a couple of nights ago. Init a young boy is given a magic ticket that allows him to enter anArnold flick.         Q#1 -- If youcould enter any film (or films) which would it be and why?         Later in the moviethe villain escapes into the "real world" and concocts a plan to jumpfrom movie to movie unleashing fi...

        In my ongoingsearch for repeatable bits so I can coast on blogger autopilot, Isubmit for your approval my condensed version of mignuna's "Friday Five." Consider me mig-lite for the attention spanchallenged.         Every Tuesday I'llpose two questions for pondering and self reflection. Answer if youplease, any way you please. There are no correct answers, only yourpersonal thoughts and reflections. There...

        Well, we lostanother blogger. WrecklessErichas deleted all his articles and dropped out.         In the old days,miners would carry canaries into the mines with them as a gas meter.The poor little feather balls were more sensitive and more quicklysubject to the effects of poison gas than their much larger humancompanions. If the canary died it meant there was poison in the airand time to beat a hasty re...

        So you thinkjournalists are scum, eh? We have no standards? There's nothing wrongwith Michael Moore because he is just doing what we do? (You mightlike to ask Michael Finkel, Jason Blair, Stephen Glass, et al aboutthat one.)         I'd just like todisinvite those of you holding such views from ever reading my blogagain. I wouldn't want the scum to sully your perfect little, rosepetal smelling fingers. &n...

        I'm tired of theinanity. For the foreseeable future 90% of my articles will have thecommenting turned off. Maybe one of those extra subscription onlyfeatures available when JoeUser goes alpha will be the ability tosubject readers to a quiz before they are allowed to comment. (Goodidea, Brad!) I'd like to make sure you a) actually read andcomprehended the article, and have an I.Q. above 12. I can thinkof several of my fellow JUsers the latter ...

        (I'm presuming ifyou're reading this you know what HollywoodSquares is, but just in case... The Hollywood Squares game show is basically Tic-Tac-Toe. Contestants pick one of ninecelebrities, each representing a "square" of a tic-tac-toe board, whois asked a question. The celebrity either answers truthfully or"bluffs," purposefully telling a lie to throw the contestant off.)         I'm alwayssurprised...

        Handing Iraq backover to its people early must have thrown a wrench into al Qaeda'splans. They want America in Iraq.         Al Qaeda saw Iraqas "a new front" in their Jihad against the West. If they couldn'tsmuggle themselves into America to mass murder Americans they couldeasily caravan their way into Iraq and start taking shots at will. Itwas the perfect opportunity to kill some infidels and get a cra...

        I am very pleasedto get along so well with the many Australians we have here on JU.I'm so glad they were able to put that horrible incident of the early90's behind them and move on.         In 1994, shortlyafter a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook nearby Northridge Californiakilling 61 people, I logged on to a bulletin board system (BBS)located in Beverly Hills. The BBS served as the distribution pointand in...

        I am very pleasedto get along so well with the many Australians we have here on JU.I'm so glad they were able to put that horrible incident of the early90's behind them and move on.         In 1994, shortlyafter a magnitude 6.8 earthquake shook nearby Northridge Californiakilling 61 people, I logged on to a bulletin board system (BBS)located in Beverly Hills. The BBS served as the distribution pointand in...

        I watched thefuneral proceedings broadcast from RonaldReagan's Presidential Library , which, as you may have surmisedfrom my eulogyblog , I have been to on more than one occasion. Television didnot do it justice, neither the building nor, especially, the view outthe back where the actual proceedings were held.          Theview from the back of the library is one of the most striking andbeautiful views ...