Newspaper giant Washington Post is making news itself this week. The paper made the decision to bench sports cartoon Tank McNamara this week. In all, 6 panels were denied and "reruns" appeared.

Above are two of the "offending" strips. Satirizing NFL commish Roger Goodell, the NFL's problems with the police blotter, Michael Vick and Dick Cheney. In the strip Cheney says Goodell should rub out dog-killin' Vick.

Over the line? Perhaps. But worthy of censorship? Please. Read that list of who is involved again. Aside from Dubya, are there people that have given late night comics and newspaper columnists more material?

This stinks of hypocrisy. Especially since the Washington Post spent 8 years satirizing and hammering Cheney. And a comic strip is what gets shut down? It's a bloody cartoon.

Free speech applies to Jeffy and Dolly in The Family Circus but not Tank?

Nonsense...

It's a shame that SNL is not in production right now. The cold open would be a town hall meeting. Every person that stepped up the microphone would be crazier than the next. Making all kind of outrageous claims about the proposed health care reform. The final guy could be wearing a coonskin cap and a barrel with straps. "The only thing the Obama health care plan covers is abortions and zombie bites!" Anything else? "Live from New York ..." That sucker would kill.

Seth Meyers, call me pally, we'll chat.

I know there are plenty of reports of shills and plants being sent to these meetings, but let me give those that actually want a discussion a nickel's worth of free advice.

Stop sending the caricatures to the mike. Don't have the slob with meatball stains dripping down his t-shirt talk/ramble/scream. Don't you have anyone that isn't in the over 60, white guy, Bill O'Reilly fan-base demographic? How about a dude wearing a tie?

Maybe it would be a good idea to let someone talk that has an actual counter-argument. Not yelling and screaming incoherent blather. It comes across as only trying to defeat Obama, not caring about the 50 million that don't have health care. You're siding with the pharmaceutical companies who are kind of the bad guys.

Don't make signs with Nazi symbology. It's backfiring and really embarrassing.

And, most important, do not, under any circumstances, let someone yell "I want my country back!" This has become the battle cry for the batty. The news directors are waiting for the nuts to yell it so they can play the clip. How are you not figuring this out on your own?

Okay, enough ranting/common sense, roll the damn clip. You need to see this guy.

Something about this screams "fake" but only because it's so damn awesome.

Something about this screams "fake" but only because it's so damn awesome.

(Via Today's Big Thing)

(This is Part II in a five part series on my trip out to the Hamptons this past weekend.)

I like Mo. I've known him for a little over five hours and I'm already reorganizing my top ten list of best friends. I realize he's a good person when one of my fellow travel companions asks for a Starbucks order so complicated and intricate, it would make Will Hunting's ears bleed. Mo, who is also one of the chaperones on the trip, doesn't blink. He doesn't talk back. He smiles and comes back a few minutes later with the drink order exactly as it was placed. This is someone you want to hang out with. He's easy going, aims to please, and understands people. I quickly realize that, with Mo around, this is going to be an easy weekend.

Tuesday Entertainment:

There are good actors, bad actors, and girls who act badly in bikini's.

In this case we have these actress/models, wearing bikini's, reading a part from The Big Lebowski.
The acting may be wooden, but who really cares.

I wonder if they got clearance for this?

History and Star Wars. Two of my, let's just say ... interests. Okay fine, obsessions.

The clever folks at IFSTARWARSWASREAL.com have used the magic of photoshop to insert the world of wookies and TIE fighters into real events. Above you see Pancho Villa and his very own Battle Droid. Apparently the Empire helped in the revolution.

There is also a Star Wars presence in the JFK assassination, Pearl Harbor and the old west. Rancor monsters in Egyptian hieroglyphics, Gamorrean guards at Graceland with Elvis and Howard Hughes building an X-Wing Starfighter. They're hilarious.

See the rest here.

It might not be quite in the same league as Echowood's Z4, but this baby is now mine all mine.

I took delivery on Friday of a slightly used Pontiac Solstice, after wanting one ever since they were first announced. It's not only in beautiful condition, but it came with an XM/DVD/iPOD/GPS/Bluetooth-hands-free/front-and-rear-parking camera geek dream unit (the Pioneer AVIC-D3 if you're really interested). Since then I've been desperately dreaming up places to drive - "I could go to the grocery store... or I could go to the grocery store three towns over" - and editing my Drivetime playlist so when I'm at a stoplight with the hood down getting admiring glances, The Spice Girls don't come on rotation.

Any recommendations for cool drives within a 50 mile radius of NYC would be greatly appreciated.