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I don't care what the movie is about or what the reviews said. Any movie with the screen shot above must be amazing.

Werner Herzog's other movie to be screened this year, Rescue Dawn (cited in our 2007 in movies preview, and opening at unknown date (was originally slated for next week)) looks better and more mainstream than Cobra Verde.

But who could resist that look of "You wanna get nuts?! Let's get nuts!! Actually, I'm already nuts!!!!!!!" on Klaus Kinski's face?

I'm not sure Barbara Boxer has ever been tougher or funnier (or hotter) than she is in this clip, in which she politely tells James "global warming is a hoax" Inhofe to go fuck himself.

Read on for some Tom Delay funnies.

I got the photo below in a forward. I think it's racist and more importantly, not funny. But it produced a reaction, and that's notable, if not good.

Is the photo supposed be funny because (i) rappers can't write/type?, (ii) Microsoft might actually create such a stupid product?, (iii) computers + black people = comedy?, or (iv) 50 Cent already endorses vitamin water? I'm confused.

Ideas?

This NY Times blog post of a few days ago really hits the spot on the nonsense of presidential campaigns - especially those that have been taking place since two EIGHT years before the election.

Here's an excerpt. John McCain on HIV prevention:

Mr. McCain: (Long pause) "Ahhh. I think I support the president's policy."

Q: "So no contraception, no counseling on contraception. Just abstinence. Do you think contraceptives help stop the spread of HIV?"

Mr. McCain: (Long pause) "You've stumped me."

Q: "I mean, I think you'd probably agree it probably does help stop it?"

Mr. McCain: (Laughs) "Are we on the Straight Talk express? I'm not informed enough on it. Let me find out. You know, I'm sure I've taken a position on it on the past. I have to find out what my position was. Brian, would you find out what my position is on contraception--I'm sure I'm opposed to government spending on it, I'm sure I support the president's policies on it."

Q: "But you would agree that condoms do stop the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. Would you say: 'No, we're not going to distribute them,' knowing that?"

Mr. McCain: (Twelve-second pause) "Get me Coburn's thing, ask Weaver to get me Coburn's paper that he just gave me in the last couple of days. I've never gotten into these issues before."

A couple of thoughts:

1. McCain has been running for President for nearly eight years and has been in Congress since 1982. How can he still not be informed enough on this issue?!?

2. Even though he acknowledges that he's "not informed enough" on the issue, McCain is "sure" that he's "opposed to government spending on it." I am so fucking sick of this pseudo-libertarian nonsense from the right, and think we can expect more of it as a backlash to Bush's spending habits.

3. McCain himself was the one that asked, "Are we on the Straight Talk express?"

Think that's real bread?

Ah, the mid-90s...

There was no Fox News...

Clinton was in office...

Grunge music was still cool...

Men named Mark "I'm not here to talk about the past." McGwire and Sammy "Apologi [sic]" Sosa reigned supreme - women wanted them, men wanted to be them...

And "Chicks dug the longball."

Fogonazos has posted a great photographic tour of our namesake.

Barry H. Obama goes country.

My first instinct was to turn this into a post asking the question if (a) Obama is pissed about wearing the hat but feels he has to, (b) think it's funny, or (c) doesn't really care one way or the other. But honestly, that question is irrelevant. The photo says all it has to. And Obama actually seems to wear the hat rather well. Though I know nothing about this subject, it seems like that slight dip is preferred. (See other famous cowboy hat wearers Bush II and Eastwood/Man With No Name.)

(The title of this post comes from Blazing Saddles. Or so I thought. Apparently it originated in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, and has since been used in UHF, Troop Beverly Hills, and The Super Mario Brothers Super Show!.)

Read on to see why (1) The New Republic thinks Obama needs to emphasize his gay-black-cowboyness and affinity for "bombs," and (2) why Fox News hates Obama because he's black, Muslim, a smoker, a liberal, and intelligent.

At 8:15 a.m. eastern time, the featured headline on The New York Times' website: "Berlusconi Flirts. His Wife’s Fed Up. Read All About It."

Many in the media (at least those he does not own), as well as this site have taken a cheap shot or two (and many well-deserved shots) at Mr. Berlusconi. After all, his time as Italy's Prime Minister is almost equally as absurd as Rupert Murdoch becoming President of the US. (Reason #100000 we should not repeal the 12th Amendment: Mr. Murdoch is Australian.)

But for all his shittiness, you have to laugh at a guy with a pacemaker and hair implants who goes out in public and says things like, (to Italian MP Mara Carfagna) "If I weren’t already married, I would marry you right now."

It's for these types of absurdities that I may unfortunately miss our own President in a few years. I just can't imagine anyone else living up to Mr. Bush's comic standards or to President Clinton's hilarious horndog ways. While Mr. Berlusconi's comic style is more like Jack Nicholson (read: lecherous), Bush plays the President in the way I imagine David Brent would (read: incompetent). In both cases I get the feeling that somewhere aliens are watching a TV show about our world and "havin' a laugh."

Read on for more... including a new entry in the long-running contest to find the hottest politician ever.