The purpose of a memoir is to tell the truth about oneself with a purpose. Not to just lay out all the family garbage, but to make it mean something to the reader. Jeffrey Koterba does that masterfully in his humorous memoir.
Koterba is a nationally syndicated political cartoonist who didn’t have an easy path toward […]

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After striking a well-appreciated chord with audiences everywhere in the highly praised Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, the voice of Neil Patrick Harris is in almost as high demand as the actor himself. And last week in a special episode of the animated series Batman: The Brave & The Bold Harris’s voice made an impressive appearance […]

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The headline reads: Save the Planet: Eat a Dog.
No, it’s not an anti Filipino satire about poor rural people in the provinces who eat dogs. It’s actually a post in a New Zealand paper that reports on the “carbon footprint” of Fido, Kitty and other meat eating pets.
Victoria University professors Brenda and Robert Vale, architects […]

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The TV is on in our house every waking moment of the day. The schedule is pretty much cast in stone. Monday through Friday I get the 6am to 9am slot, and I watch CNN. Although I will be honest with you, the more I watch, the less I like. Over the past 10 years […]

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We live in a fairly quiet neighborhood, although, it does border on ‘Da Hood’.  Even though the town only has 20,000 residents, we do boast a ‘bad part’. For the most part I just take everything with good humor. For several months I watched with interest as the City Crews would find a seemingly harmless […]

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Abbie Hoffman, Yippie Emeritus, died 20 years ago. He was master of the culture jam before the term was coined, whacking the establishment with its own wack.
Quoting Wikipedia: “Culture jamming sometimes entails transforming mass media to produce ironic or satirical commentary about itself, using the original medium’s communication method.”
Hello, ACORN? Can I come […]

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We have followed these stories very closely here at BNN. For months we reported what we knew. Much of it was not very good for the Anthony family. They were, and are, maybe the dumbest family in America, but it is only a ‘maybe’, the family of missing tot Haleigh Cummings may have them beat. […]

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At the age of 40, Pastor Richard Gazowsky - the magnetic and vociferous leader of the Voice of Pentecost Church on Ocean Avenue in San Francisco, saw his first movie. Soon after, he announced to his congregation that God had called upon him to direct a major motion picture. But not just any major motion […]

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It’s that time again. Time to put the opponents of Payday Lending into the clown dunk tank and wing a few balls at the target. No apologies if I accidentally hit one of these twits in the face.
First up, the AP reported that the Center for Responsible Lending — the corrupt PR front […]

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Ahoy President Obama,
I hear you want folks to send you any fishy emails they receive about your health care reform plan. So I’m enclosing the ones I’ve received. I’ve stripped senders’ addresses because I know you have no interest in collecting that kind of info, you just want to correct disinformation. Incidentally, not all the […]

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Like most children, I hated Brussel sprouts, which were soggy, bitter and terrible tasting. Indeed, they come in first in a UK poll on the most hated vegetable.
But they are a source of Vitamin C, and in places like Great Britain they are part of the traditional Christmas dinner.
But now, to the horror of sprout […]

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Reva Blackmon is the probate judge in the small town of Sand Valley, Alabama. Her husband, Wendell is a policeman in the same town where his duties largely consist of breaking up dog fights, investigating alien abductions, extinguishing truck fires, and spending endless hours riding the roads of Sand Valley. The book opens with Wendell […]

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From the desk of Charlie Churchill’s Parrot
Churchill’s Parrot: Charlie Churchill’s Parrot here and joining us this evening is the Prince of Darkness himself, Satan.  Mr. Satan, so gracious of you to be here.
Satan: Not at all.
CP: How are you, sir?
S: Never better.
CP: That’s most unfortunate. We must say we are a bit surprised to see […]

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The Ultimate Jew
Jackie Mason
DVD
This special DVD/CD is a fitting testament to the final series of shows Mason did on Broadway back in 2008 to packed houses. He chats about everything from the plight of being Jewish in the world and the US, to politics and growing old on the stage. This is Mason at the […]

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In this era of reduced real estate expectations and tighter lending it’s nice to know that taxpayers, via the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), will be helping folks buy luxury condos deep in the heart of Jersey City, New Jersey. With a mere 3.5 percent down “qualified buyers”* can use loans supplied by FHA backed lenders […]

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Edward De Bono the author once said that humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.   
If this is true, then “Return of the Dittos” proves conclusively that the fertile brain of its author, Dale Andrew White, continues to work overtime, much to the benefit of his readers.“Return of the Dittos” […]

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I was happy to find that David Letterman has joined the woman hating bigots such as Rush Limbaugh and Gordon Liddy in the NOW Hall of Shame.
Comedians in search of a laugh should really know better than to snicker about men having sex with teenage girls (or young women) less than half their age. […]

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I saw this on the newswire and assume it’s a joke.
Then again, I don’t put anything past the CRL or Bill Faith.
Center for Responsible Lending Creates New Loan Subsidiary
Rumpelstiltskin Lending, LLC to Offer Short-Term Credit Product

Washington D.C., June 10, 2009 - The Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) today proudly introduced a direct competitor to payday […]

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Spoiler alert for the last few folks who take Alan Greenspan seriously– don’t read chapter two of Douglas Rushkoff’s new book Life, Inc. The scene where Greenspan addresses attendees of the 2008 Wealth Expo in New York City via satellite is pure twisted comedy. The Expo, a yearly wing ding of wishful thinking and pyramid […]

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I feel like establishing a few things up front here:
1 - Spring Breakdown is not a terrible movie.
2 - despite the lackluster reactions after its Sundance premiere and its inauspicious dumping to DVD, I still expected more from this buddy comedy starring Parker Posey and Amy Poehler.
Let’s go over a few things this movie does […]

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Ever have one of those nights that leads into the next morning where you wake up in pain craving greasy eggs and extra strong coffee?  At that point you have probably done a calculation in your head where you tried to determine if this hangover was worth it.  By the time all is said and […]

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Here in the Philippines, the headlines are usually full of big stories: a bomb in the south, a mudslide from the monsoons, or another corruption/bribery allegation.
But right now, the big story that everyone is following are the “Nip/Tuck” sex tape scandal. It seems that a prominent Manila plastic surgeon was seducing some of his patients, including […]

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President Barack Obama today announced his choice of Jesus Christ, of Nazareth, as his first selection for the Supreme Court. Citing Christ’s judicial wisdom, impeccable knowledge of the law, and “empathy,” Obama proudly presented his nominee in the East Room of the White House.
Rush Limbaugh wasted no time in seizing his microphone to condemn Obama’s […]

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by Alan H. Rolnick, author of Landmark Status
My brother recently sent me a riotous pictographic transliteration of a Joe Cocker performance from Woodstock, which, despite seeming like it was only yesterday to those who were there and are still here, really did take place almost forty years ago. Watching the clip, I realized that […]

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Sometimes things just go wild. A story that you have little interest in suddenly gets huge attention. It is often hard to figure out what the attraction is. The Pizza Box computer is a case in point. My creative destruction of an IBM Thinkpad went wild.
In someways the Beer Box computer did the same thing. […]

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There is a big controversy against Notre Dame University honoring President Obama with an honorary degree.
Undoubtedly you have read the Notre Dame talking points, which are all over the news.
These talking point insist: Only rabid right wing evil conservative bigoted Republicans oppose this honor, and most good pro abortion Democratic Catholics support the university.
Of […]

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In the vein of The Devil Wears Prada and The Nanny Diaries comes another humourous look at a life that is so much different from the average American.
Liza Davis sets out on a journey to find her sister, but really the journey is about her. She comes from a privileged background and should be destined […]

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To know science fiction in the popular culture, you must start with “Star Trek”, continue with “2001: A Space Odyssey”. Through the 80’s there was the fanciful Star Wars, followed by the renewal of Star Trek, which stagnated around 2000.  Battlestar Galactica’s reprise brought a new frakin’ attitude to the genre and now we have […]

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Tonight, after eight years, two networks and a writer’s strike TV’s “Scrubs” came to an end.
While I was less than an occasional watcher of the series in it’s first few years, when the show went into syndication around 2006 I quickly fell in love with it and caught up with the history of the show.
Scrubs […]

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One of the greatest innovations in home entertainment is the “Best of” DVDs that allow fans to watch episodes of their favorite TV shows without the commercial breaks and get bonus features such as interviews with stars.
“Best of” has just released two new DVD sets for the acclaimed comedy series, “Will and Grace.”  Will […]

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