• February 13, 2012

star trek

Did you miss Obama’s big speech about how America is the Number One country in terms of vitriol, idiocy, obesity and unemployment? Well you will want to savor it, the way an out-of-work man savors the Honor of a president diligently working to, uh, destroy health and environmental regulations while, uh, reducing the federal deficit.

We appreciate teevee’s “Mr. Spock,” the 79-year-old photographer Leonard Nimoy, for being a mensch who paid a lot of money to have Griffith Park Observatory rebuilt, and for sneaking in some Kohanic rabbi voodoo into the Star Trek show, and for being an ageless entertainer long after most people are in the rest home. But [...]

You may have read on the Internet that this week’s big movie release is the “new” original Star Trek movie, and it is going to make millions of dollars. It is the latest manifestation of Hollywood studios’ race to abandon all creativity: after a popular movie series like Batman or Superman has run its course, [...]

NASA, which means FAIL in the Moon Man language, has announced the doomed zillion-dollar replacement for the rust-bucket death-trap space shuttles that haven’t yet blown up won’t be ready until at least September of 2014, which means “never” in the Moon Man language.