President Obama has policy ambitions beyond that of your average president. Perhaps it’s because of a friendly senate and a country in crisis, after all, the word for crisis in Greek is (opportunity + sub-prime meltdown – volcano)/tragic incest*. Thus far Mr. Obama has gotten quite a bit done. Massive injections of capital into troubled financial institutions, state governments, and … [continue]
Come with Bernard and Leslie on a magical audio tour of technical mishap and miscomminication. Yes, it’s a mess, but it’s all part of bringing you the best possible podcast. Enjoy! …[continue]
Like all great entertainments of the twentieth century, Receiving Me? podcasts yield a rich harvest of out-takes and bloopers. And certainly we are not the type to deny our audience the, ahem, pleasure of yet more or our nonsense. So gaze behind the curtain at Receiving Me? studios and into the vast vacuum of our talent. … [continue]
People of Philadelphia, now is our time for mourning. Bring forth ash that we may taste the cinder of our hopes and dreams, uncoil the lash that we might dull our existential anguish with floggings, and weep until your eyes, reddened and burning, run dry. Yes, weep; for the oceans of our discontent cannot be contained by mere … [continue]
Gentlemen, I’m not going to sugarcoat it. We just got our derrieres punted good, and it looks like the old pay back leg is winding up for another round. We don’t do something soon, we’re all gonna be standing around too sore to sit.
We all know what happened over the last eight years… The damned … [continue]
Nadya Suleman, the Los Angeles woman who recently gave birth to her seventh through fourteenth child, has decided to donate several of her extra children to charity. Suleman, who gave birth to the octuplets after undergoing an in-vitro procedure, has expressed concern with how the economy may be affecting families living in poverty.
“I just know … [continue]
Hello Friend,
You’re looking well. I see that like me you appreciate the finer things in life. Whether it’s an isolated tropical beach in the pacific where the Sun drops into the ocean just so, a deep tissue massage from a blind Thai girl trained from birth in the seven arts of easing troubled flesh, … [continue]
Tom Daschle offered a public apology on Monday evening for his failure to pay income taxes on use of a luxury car and driver, and Senate Democrats rallied behind him, saying they intended to win his confirmation as secretary of health and human services…
Nancy Killefer, who failed for a year … [continue]
President Obama is working way too hard. Honestly it’s making the rest of us look bad. I just wish he understood how it feels to get out of bed at noon, flip open the paper, and see a picture of him signing stuff. Nobody ever asks me to sign anything; least not since my credit card got … [continue]
I’m sure all of you are familiar with the internet’s ability to supply video. I thought I’d list this link because A) it’s actually legal, B) the video quality is pretty good, and C) it’s a really good show that would be hard to find elsewhere. That’s right, I’m talking about 1967’s “The Prisoner” staring the recently deceased Patrick McGoohan and … [continue]
