The Hill Street Blahg

George Carlin, one of the true great ones, passed away yesterday in LA, he was 71. Carlin had a special talent for revealing and bringing to light the hypocrisies and idiocy of today’s society and our government’s inability to get things done correctly. Whoever coined the phrase “there is truth in mirth” knew what they [...]

The not so funny comedian Bill Maher recently made some rather disparaging remarks regarding the Pope and the Catholic Church. On his Time-Warner/HBO show, Maher called the Pope a “Nazi” and said the Catholic Church is nothing more than a “child-abusing religious cult.”
It is Mr. Maher’s right to feel as he does and to [...]

I watched a pretty good movie yesterday from Blockbuster that’s been sitting on the table for over four weeks. Twenty some minutes in to the movie and I couldn’t believe I had put off watching it for so long. The name of the movie was Shooter and it was an action packed movie centered on [...]

“Fire, the greatest invention known to man” is mainstay trope we’ve all heard since grade school days. Apparently the perpetuates of this rhetorical claim have never read a book in the evening with a trusty light bulb turned on. The claim should be re-phrased to read like this; “Next to Fire, the incandescent light bulb [...]

Will the shunning and castigation ever end for Don Imus? The exiled radio personality has received some additional punishment for his insensitive and not so nice remarks aimed at the Rutgers girls basketball team. If losing his radio program on CBS along with his self-effacing apology wasn’t enough, now CBS is really pouring it [...]