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The guy I’ve always wanted to be

I’ve always wanted to be the cranky old rich guy in the Shirley Temple movie. He loves Shirley, but hates the rest of his family who kiss his ass hoping to cash in on his inheritance. So here’s to Walter “Buck” Swords. Buck ate at some diner all the time, acted like a cantankerous crank, …

CSPAN reconsiders Dred Scott

I’m not exactly sure just how this happened, but one day apparently Hannah Montana was a repeat and I wound up watching CSPAN’s coverage of a Harvard Law School event, where a bunch of big wigs, including the sexually over curious Kenneth Starr, reargued the Dread Scott case in front of a bunch of judges including …

True Life Inspirational Teacher Movies

I’m a sucker for these things, especially the end credits where they tell you how successful the kids, who had been on their way to death or jail have become in real life. I was just watching this type of sequence at the end of the Sam Jackson movie Coach Carter, and yet I couldn’t …

Doug Stanhope on why he hates Jews

In honor of the Will Smith JDL feud I offer this brilliantly profane routine by Doug Stanhope, who bravely responds to an inaccurate accusation that he said something anti-semetic, by deciding that he’s railed against every other religion why not take on the Jews too. Listen carefully and you’ll realize that Stanhope, of course, isn’t anti-Jew, …