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Counting the Coverage: The Daily Show and Dicks*

Posted in ...and everything else, American Idol, Politics, Pop Culture, The Daily Show, Tilting at Windmills on June 8th, 2011 2 Comments »

For the past week plus, there have been rumblings in the blogosphere that Jon Stewart has not done enough to mock, slam, satirize, or otherwise shame New York Rep. Anthony Weiner, and the charge is two-fold: Stewart won’t because Weiner is a Democrat, and Stewart won’t because they were, for a time, college roommates, and [...]

Analyzing Groupon’s Failure

Posted in ...and everything else, Academics, Pop Culture, The Daily Show on February 7th, 2011 1 Comment »

I feel like people are probably expecting a comment on Groupon’s amazingly over the top, tasteless, offensive advertisement shown during the Super Bowl last night. (Why do I feel like people expect this? Well, I’m Buddhist and I am known for being cranky. It’s not really a large leap there…) So, yes, I found that [...]

Obama in Bullet Time

Posted in Politics, Pop Culture, The Daily Show on February 2nd, 2010 No Comments »

I’ve been very busy the last week or so with something that we’ll just keep under wraps for the time being, which means I’ve been somewhat behind the ball on everything else. But Laurie wanted to make sure that I saw this, and now I’m sharing it with you. I’m especially fond of the snarky [...]