Oh, those wacky Japanese and their crazy fetishes, it fair warms the cockles. (Not very safe for work)

"The Departed" ***1/2 (out of four): After a decade-long lull, Martin Scorsese returns to form with a taut remake about two cops working on either side of the law to bring down a notorious kingpin, played with age-defying glee by Jack Nicholson.

It must be hard to be Martin Scorsese. When you’ve made the top ten lists for the 70s (“Taxi Driver”), 80s (“Raging Bull”) and 90s (“Goodfellas”), as well as countless other contributions to the cultural zeitgeist, what do you do next? Well, if you’re Martin Scorsese you dabble a bit in period pieces (“Gangs of New York”) and biopics (“The Aviator”) and spend some time breaking in a new muse (Leonardo DiCaprio), often with mixed results. At last, after a decade-long lull, all those pieces fall into glorious place in “The Departed”, Mr. Scorsese’s remake of the 2002 Chinese [Thanks for the correction!] cop drama which is probably the director’s most taut piece of storytelling since “Goodfellas”.

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Today on the veg...great musicians who died in plane crashes

All I really need to know I learned from watching Schoolhouse Rock.

Why is it I can't remember ten things from four years of a pretty good liberal arts college, but I can recite every word of the preamble? A degree in Anthropology (don't laugh) and I still get the Incas mixed up with the Aztecs, but I know all there is to know about naughty, nasty, mean old number nine. I mean...how sad is that? (Umm...think it had anything to do with being high all the time, douchebag? Uhh...ever heard of a rhetorical question, asshole?)

Schoolhouse Rock was the nanny I never had, minus the sexual fantasies. It was home schooling before it became the in thing to do. Because my Saturday morning were spent glued to a television, I now know that and, but and or will get me pretty far, and that interjections are generally set apart from a sentence by an exclamation point, or by a comma when the feeling's not as strong. So, all things considered, I think I came out ahead.

So, who do I have to thank for this wealth of information. Who are the people attached to these voices inside my head, and are they still around today? Turns out, they are. And they're all still singing away. There are four main singers (jazz musicians, actually)responsible for almost all of the Schoolhouse Rock videos, with a few guest appearances here and there (Verb! That's what's happening!) So, let's take a look at some heroes from my youth...the Schoolhouse Rock Singers.

- Hey, do you work out? No, I'm just wearing 155 t-shirts. And here's the video to prove it.
- In this group of rejested BustedTees t-shirt designs, I think I like Yes Ladies, I Eat Ass best.
- The funniest thing about NORML placing shelf talkers in stores is where they've placed them.
- It's official (again)...I'm old. What are you laughing at? if you like e-mail, you're pretty old too.
- And if you missed the Lost season premiere, you can always watch it for free on the ABC site.

I recently read an article on Huffington Post about a gentlemen named Steven Howards who was ARRESTED for calmly walking up to Vice President Dick Cheney and saying "I think your policies in Iraq are reprehensible". He was then taken away IN HANDCUFFS, and later brought before a judge who quickly threw the case out. (Oh, and he was with his 8 year old son at the time)

With this story in mind, here are my ten favorite comments on HuffPost:

10) This is really sad. Is this the United States of America? - mstoot
9) Sounds like Dickhead is still smarting from the Louisiana man who told him to go fuck himself - jailbush
8) DICK - ALUJCIC
7) Welcome to the POLICE STATE OF AMERICA! Nice going, Cheney you low life son of a bitch! - reademandweep
6) How come you're not sitting in a cell awaiting judgement in The Hague, you pig? - wonder6789
5) YES SIR! . . . Fascism is alive in America - izack
4) Cheney is a big fucking pussy! - SanityNotHannity
3) Howards is lucky his eight year-old son wasn't molested? getoffmedz
2) I suppose if someone told Hitler his policy of exterminating the Jews was reprehensible Hitler would have had the person arrested. - jacksdca

And my #1 favorite comment...

1) Cheney is a dickhead douchebag four-eyed fuck-up chickenshit scaredy-cat draft dodging fat slob mutherfukkin asshole. - montemalone

Via Neatorama, if you've been looking for a site featuring Gorillas, Aliens, Zombies and other bad blind dates holding beautiful heroines...look no more. Giants and Girls is the answer to all your prayers, and proof that the Internet has officially covered every topic in the universe.

(Reminds me of an image I'm sure they WON'T have.)

In case any of you had watched the horror unfolding in our schools over the last week, and wondered if there was some pattern, some reason for it all, the truth can now be revealed. Who knew the answer was that simple?