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Janet Lehman, MSW is Tootsie!

Every time I see the commercial for "The Total Transformation Program" with Janet Lehman I think she looks like Dustin Hoffman in Tootsie. Am I imagining it?

Janet Lehman, MSW vs Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie

Bill Maher on Ann Romney & You

I heard that Bill Maher said something funny about Ann Romney. And by "funny" I mean "rude". So I looked it up:

“But what [Hillary Rosen] meant to say, I think, was that Ann Romney has never gotten her ass out of the house to work,” Maher said. “No one …

Contraceptive Availability Makes Too Much Sense?

A friend shared an ecard picture on Facebook recently. The picture is not important, but the text is:

A great way to help prevent abortions is by making contraceptives as available as possible to reduce unwanted pregnancies. But that makes too much sense right?

To which I wrote the following …

Dialog with a Chat Bot

I posted this as a note recently on Facebook, realized I should post it here too!

What follows is an exchange with a chat bot on Yahoo Instant Messenger. I usually just close these kinds of windows when they open, but I thought I'd have a little fun with it …

No Preexisting Conditions for Health Insurance

So people seem to believe that health insurance should not be able to discriminate against people with preexisting conditions, either by refusing them coverage or charging them higher premium payments. That type of discrimination is unfair. For the sake of argument, let's agree to the premise that preexisting condition discrimination …

I Won't Vote That Way

What follows is a parody of the Backstreet Boys song "I Want It That Way". It is a bit of an anti-Obama anthem. I'm going to try to record it even though I can't carry a tune in a bucket. Maybe I need to create a boy band to give …

"Sheldon Cooper is my twin" or "Chuck Lorre owes me for adapting my life for his show"

Edit on 16 May 2012: If you're reading this Bill Prady, sorry I only blamed Chuck Lorre for stealing my life for his show. I now blame you too. ;)

What follows is a piece I originally posted on Facebook in February 2011. It should have gone here then. Better late …

Apollo 18

Apollo 18 is a horror movie released in the US in September 2011. It is a "financial success" in that it has grossed about five times its estimated $5,000,000 budget. The real version of the movie poster below featured the tagline "There's a reason why we've never gone …

Time Capsule: Bin & Jerry's

Almost 10 years ago I was inspired by an Eric D. Snider column ("Let's Mecca Deal", 5-Oct-2001, http://www.ericdsnider.com/snide/lets-mecca-deal/) to do a parody mashup of a Ben & Jerry's ice cream renamed "Bin & Jerry's". It featured Osama bin Laden & Jerry Falwell, both of whom seem kinda nutty …

The Real Thor

Marvel released a movie based on their comic character Thor. I think it would be better as a Stargate themed movie. Here's the better movie poster:

The new movie based on a Marvel comics character would be much better if it were based on Stargate...