Unlike many of his colleagues, Barney Frank has no patience for pharmaceutical industry flunkie attempts to disrupt a public debate forum.

Link via Wonkette.

I could never have foreseen myself posting a Volkswagon spot in the midst of our staunchly anti-commercial Shangri-la. It appears that The Big Lebowski is my kryptonite. So I tip my hat and relay your embed code, good sir.

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This well-crafted video touches on several Mep themes including Chess, Debate, and the habits of the incompetent. It seems to have been inspired entirely by board trolls, which may be their first ever positive (though second-hand) contribution to mankind.

Just got back from a Little Tokyo record release party for the artist known as Zaptra. As you can see from this video, he’s a little odd.

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Last night, at the behest of my girlfriend, I saw the steaming pile of mastodon dung known as The Time Traveler’s Wife. Going in without reading the novel, I carried several misconceptions about the movie. I will now disabuse you of any of said misconceptions that might cause you to accidentally watch this thing…

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Wow. Just wow. I think the Onion may have just leveled up.

Since Mepper Storey is moving cross-country and too busy to play Chicken Little, I thought the front page could do with a little doomsaying. This forecast is courtesy of unexceptional market predictor, Robert Prechter.

Last week, I earned a Doctorate of Immortality from the Universal Life Church. Already an ordained minister of the church at the fertile age of 21 (one of the few tens of millions), I decided to take the plunge and focus my studies on the infinite. Though happy to have returned to the corporeal world with my degree, I assure you that the trials of an Immortalist are not to be taken lightly.

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Ahhh, the soothing sounds of Koopa. This pleases me greatly. Yes.

Did it occur to anyone else that the parents of these performers are young enough to have experienced most of these games firsthand? The age of video game genealogy is upon us.

A genuinely frightening story from the Council for Secular Humanism, revealed that in several meetings with high level foreign officials, “Governor Bush,” revealed that the Iraq invasion was part of a fulfillment of the biblical apocalypse and that,

“This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use the conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”

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