Yay - An Intelligent President!

It makes me all warm and fuzzy to know there is a politician out there representing us that doesn't make me cringe every time he opens his mouth. He's not perfect, but he's the closest thing I've seen to a real leader in a long time.

Rush Limbaugh - "Why Don't Women Like Me?" or Asspipe Hall of Fame

This picture is priceless. And explains a lot. Charles Blow has a great opinion piece in the NYT on 3/6 titled Three Blind Mice where he decimates the intent and actions of Jindal, Steele and Limbaugh. He even gets it right when he says the Democrats have taken the opportunity to acknowledge Limbaugh's power level at this time and keep poking him, thereby making him snap back like a "rabid dog". I agree when he says he didn't know the Democrats had it in them.

Asspipe Statement of the Day

"...Ruth Bader Ginsburg … has cancer.”
“Bad cancer. The kind that you don’t get better from,” he told a crowd of about 100 at the old State Theater. Senator Jim Bunning, Kentucky

Asspipe of the Day

It should go without saying that if your face is on the front of a Wheaties box, never, never, ever put a bong to your lips in a crowded room.

Asspipe Statement of the Day, or Mommas Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to Be Baseball Players

Rodriguez answered "No" when asked whether he's ever used steroids, human growth hormone or any other performance-enhancing substance."I've never felt overmatched on the baseball field," he said. "... I felt that if I did my, my work as I've done since I was, you know, a rookie back in Seattle, I didn't have a problem competing at any level." (Katie Couric interview, 2007)

Out of Sight

On Sunday morning while waiting for Travis McGee to get home, I was happy to find Out of Sight while flipping through the TV channels. If you've never seen this movie, put it on the list. First of all, it's based on a Elmore Leonard book so that gives it a headstart. It also stars George Clooney as a really terrible but charming bank robber. Ving Rhames co-stars as his sidekick, a criminal with a penchant for confessing to his sister before he commits his crimes.The real surprise here is Jennifer Lopez. She plays a federal marshall kidnapped by Clooney and Rhames during an escape attempt from prison. She and Clooney spend a few hours together in the trunk of a car which leaves him smitten and her intrigued. She is actually a revelation and I can't believe I'm saying this. Her subsequent movies have left me pretty cold and just seem to be a vehicle for her to parade around the screen playing herself. But she inhabits the character of Karen as well as she wears the molded-to-her-body leather jacket that should have its' own screen credit. She is also as pretty as Clooney in this film and that's saying something.

The locale switches back and forth from Miami, a Leonard favorite, to the gritty underground fight scene in Detroit. There are several incendiary characters including Dennis Farina as Karen's protective father, Michael Keaton as her idiot boyfriend, Steve Zahn as a hapless tagalong and Catherine Keener, Don Cheadle and Luis Guzman. The movie moves along at a fast-pace, keeps the plot together and has fantastic, hot chemistry between Clooney and Lopez. A winner and worth the second look

Asspipe Statement of the Day

“Make no mistake, tax cheaters cheat us all, and the IRS should enforce our laws to the letter. ” (Congressional Record, May 7, 1998, p. S4507, Senator Tom Daschle (D-SD))