The AdHole

For those who need to keep their scorecards up-to-date:
Oprah - Not gay.
Lance Bass - Gay.
David Hasslehoff - Drunk.
Dude from Milli Vanilli - In need of a kryptonite Bro.
You’re welcome.
Fox

While back home in Kansas City a couple of weeks ago to see family and friends, a mild uproar of jackassicity erupted over the following billboard:

Can you guess what’s wrong with it (no fair cheating, KC natives)? It should be obvious to all enlightened, progressive peoples. This billboard, this posting, this publicly displayed outdoor advertisement […]

You wreak havoc. You reek of beef and cheese.
Yes, I realize that the correct line from “Elf” is “You smell like beef and cheese.” So don’t accuse me of sitting on a throne of lies.
Later,
Fox

I have, after much donut-fueled deliberation, determined that there are two, sports-related reasons my America continues to be the Best Place to Live on Earth Despite What Alec Baldwin Says.
Reason #1: We don’t care about soccer.
Reason #2: We don’t care about Formula 1 racing.
When France head-butted its way to defeat against Italy some time last […]

Let’s face it: Hunger strikes rock. Few things in the history of mankind have evoked more political change than hunger strikes. Just take Gandhi’s famous fasts promoting Indian independence from colonial power Great Britain. And then there’s, uhhh, you know. Others.
Despite the poor logic of the I’ll-starve-myself-so-you-will-change modus operandi, our friends in Hollywood have once […]

Words mean things.
This may seem only slightly less obvious than “the sky is blue” or “monkeys are awesome,” but in a world of euphemisms where every American is hyphenated (I’m an Anglo-Teutonic-Pancreatically-Challenged-Differently-Haired-Gentile-For-Jesus-Pasty-American), it bears repeating. Words mean things.
And sometimes, a lack of words means things. My wife and I saw “Superman Returns” yesterday. On the […]