I received the following by email today:

The Redskins have received tickets back from the opposing team. There are an extremely limited number of tickets available including lower level seats for Saturday night’s game versus the Baltimore Ravens, August 25th at 8:00 PM.

These tickets are available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Tickets are limited to 6 per person.

Tickets range from $53 for upper level tickets to $109 for lower level tickets

Thanks, Redskins, for the opportunity to spend $109 dollars on a game that doesn't count.

All this and offensive name.

Greatest ... comic .. ever

Another amazing moment from Dinosaur Comics.


It's funny because it's about drinking.

Usually I don't like musicals

Jihad The Musical (yes, no colon) is playing at the Eniburgh Fringe Festival. It's actually received good reviews:

the guilty-pleasure award goes squarely to the Jihad.

Here, the radicalisation of a clueless young Afghan gets the razzle-dazzle Broadway treatment, as in the scene in which an al-Qa'eda leader (Sorab Wadia, terrific) belts out The Jihad Jive as dolly birds in sparkling burkas slink around him.

It's all thumpingly inappropriate, in a manner that owes a hefty debt to The Producers.

But it seldom forgets the tragedy beneath the gaiety, and its wit and musical polish see it through. You can see why those who protested in advance were worried, but - shamelessly pat ending aside - it does pull off a difficult balancing act.

I'd like to try producing it here in the States. I'm sure there would be loud howls of protest and condemnation for insensitivity to (a) the victims of 9/11, (b) our troops and/or (c) Moslems. We Americans need a sense of humor.

Go here for video and audio highlights.

That Mozart fellow is always causing trouble.

My new favorite webcomic is Dinosaur Comics.
Cool people, like my friend Mr. Joel, have known about it for a long time, but I'm late to the party.


It always has dinosaurs, but only rarely do those dinosaurs rap.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose...

Speaking of classy, here's a video of neo-con uber-pundit and former Dan Quayle chief-of-staff Bill Kristol speaking nonsense and picking his nose.

Our classy President

Ask him a question, and get insulted for being bald. He's like the class bully, only without the charm.

At a recent press conference at Camp David, President George Bush insulted BBC political editor Nick Robinson, the Daily Mirror reports.

Robinson, who has asked Bush pointed questions in the past such as whetherthe president was “in denial” over the Iraq war, posed a question to Bush about whether he could trust visiting British Prime Minister Gordon Brown not to “cut and run” from Iraq.

Bush replied with a dismissal: “Are you still hanging around?”

Later on, Bush poked fun at the bare-pate of Robinson, joking, “You’d better cover up your bald head, it’s getting hot out.”

The respected British reporter shot back, “I didn’t know you cared.”

Bush responded with a cool, “I don’t.” The Mirror reports that Bush then “snorted disdainfully” and “walked away to laughter.”