South Park 12 - Are you happy?

Love it or hate it

I haven't been a South Park regular for many years. Even then, I wasn't much of a regular. I don't think I've regularly followed any TV series since Twin Peaks, maybe the first season of Seinfeld.

Still, every time I catch a bit of South Park I laugh my ass off. Sure, I'm never dying to catch the next episode, but I still laugh my ass off. That's gotta mean something, right?

Finish: South Park 12 - Are you happy?

Chuck Palahniuk's CHOKE - Rate it

Can it translate into a good movie?

Who cares. Screw the movie. The novel Choke is worthy of a read on its own right. In fact, it's a kick ass book if you're tired of the all Hollywood bullshit that permeates the life of the average American.

And that is exactly what Choke is all about. Give up the bullshit. This could easily be one of my favorite books.

Finish: CHOKE review - Rate the book CHOKE

What makes you laugh?

Where do you get your laugh on?

When you need to laugh, what do you do? Where do you go? Do you watch reruns of the Office? Check out YouTube?

Do you have any funny jokes? Some great pictures that will make anyone laugh?

Finish: What makes you laugh? Rate your daily laugh

DrudgeReport: Conservative Whack?

Just a dumb redneck?

So, the other day I checked out DrudgeReport.com. I learned that the Pentagon is possibly going to slow troop withdrawal out of Iraq. Iran is going to build more centrifuges. Many soldiers prefer Obama.. And, scarily, I learned there has been another possible person-to-person bird flu transmission - real redneck news.

All of that in less than a minute - not bad when you're short on time. So, is DrudgeReport.com just for rednecks?

Finish: DrudgeReport.com:Conservative Whack?

Are you a barfly

What's wrong with being a barfly?

I hit the bar, well, multiple bars, a couple of times per week. So what? A few drinks per day can be good for you. Besides, is the life of some uptight, valium-popping non-drinker really so much healthier?

Rate your barfly adventures

Is this really a black man?

Check out this white brother

Believe it or not, this is a picture of Robert Downey Jr on the set of Tropic Thunder - somebody give that makeup artist a bonus.

Do you think it's offensive that a white man is playing a black character?

Rate this character - Is it offensive?

Belgian fest: Lucky Baldwins

I'm in trouble.

I'm at the Belgian festival at Lucky Baldwins. Oh my god. I've been to this event numerous times, but this is the place to be the first week of March. If you like the Belgians, check this place out.

Lucky Baldwins Belgian fest in Pasadena, California, ever been to it? Rate it.

YTsWorld: At the 35er

Rate your bartender

So, I had to pick up some socks and shoes in Old Town Pasadena. Before catching the goldline back home, I thought I'd stop by the 35er and have a quick 3 with Deb, the bartender.

I ordered a Guinness, which I haven't done in a while, and I was reminded of why Deb is such a cool bartender. Check out the guinness heart. Now that's a bartender. Oh yeah, and I had 3 Irish car bombs.

Rate your bartender
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Is the BCS messed up?

Is Ohio State versus LSU the right Championship?

Let's be honest. Not one team dominated college football this year the way, say, USC did a few years ago. There are, easily, probably 10 teams that deserve a shot at the title game. All 10 controlled their destiny. All 10 failed and put their fate in the hands of the system that ranked the teams all year.

So, what's the problem? The BCS have never been perfect, but it has always been pretty close.

Even a BCS championship playoff wouldn't be perfect because it's still subjective. As the NCAA Basketball Championship demonstrates year after year, and as this year of college football demonstrated - upsets happen. Thus, a real playoff in college football would have to be more inclusive than just the Top 10 teams. If a BCS playoff were formed, teams just outside the BCS rankings would complain that the polls weren't correct, and they would have a solid argument.

Rate the BCS: Is it messed up, or is it time to relax?

Does the NFL and NBA favor some teams and players?

Are major sports officials objective?

The 'Jordan effect'. Is it real? Does the NBA protect stars like Michael Jordan, LeBron James and their teams?

Does the NFL protect the Patriots and their run for an undefeated season?

Rate NFL and NBA officiating: Do these leagues try to favor teams and players that draw the largest crowds to increase revenue?

Who blew Pack-Cowboy game: NFL or Cable?

Thursday Night Football: Who cares?

There has been a lot of hype about the Green Bay Packer and Dallas Cowboy football game. With home advantage through the NFC playoffs possibly on the line, this is one of the biggest games of the season.

Yet, most of America won't be watching. Not because they don't want to, but because the game is ONLY on the NFL Network. So, people with the Dish and some HD cable users will receive the game, but most of us will not based on failed negotiations between the NFL and the major cable providers.

Rate your anger: Is it placed on the NFL, the cable providers, both?

Do you hate Hollywood?

The people we love to hate?

I just finished reading Beware: Next comes the Oscars' 'smear campaign'? in the LATimes. I'm not sure why I read the article. I don't watch the Oscars. I frankly find them pathetic, and I think most of the garbage coming out of Hollywood is a waste of time.

When a movie as crass, obvious and stereotypical as Crash can win an Oscar for best picture with its John Grisham-eque expose of racism, then it's obvious the Oscars cannot be taken seriously. Just because a movie is about a serious subject does not make it a serious movie.

Certainly, many great movies do come out of Hollywood - diamonds in the rough. Nonetheless, the comments to the Beware story seem to display a deep hatred of Hollywood. If true, why even comment? Why pay attention to Hollywood?

Rate Hollywood: An institution we love to hate?

What color is Michael Jackson?

Is it real or makeup?

Could Michael Jackson really be this white? Wow.

Rate Michael Jackson: Is he a wacko or a victim?

Has Prince lost his mind?

Well, its small, skinny and purple - so it's almost like Prince

Prince is threatening to sue some of his fans for posting images of the rock super star online.

His lawyers have forced his three biggest internet fansites to remove all photographs, images, lyrics, album covers and anything linked to the artist's likeness. A legal letter asks the fansites to provide "substantive details of the means by which you propose to compensate our clients [Paisley Park Entertainment Group, NPG Records and AEG] for damages". (more)

Rate Prince: Has he lost his mind?

Tonight Show: Leno versus O'Brien

Jay out, Conan in

In 2009, Conan O'Brien will replace Jay Leno as the host for the Tonight Show. Do you care?

Now that rumors indicate that Jay would like to stay on as the host, should NBC keep him. Would Conan be a better host than Jay.

Rate Jay Leno versus Conan O'Brien: Who would be a better Tonight Show Host?

Do you care about movie accents?

Forget the accent?

Kevin Costner, Liam Neeson, Forest Whitaker, Winona Ryder, Tim Robbins, Uma Thurman, Gary Oldman, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt, and Dick Van Dyke. What do they all have in common? These actors makes up the 10 all-time worst movie accents.

Ouch! Those are some big names, which makes me wonder, if some of Hollywood's biggest names act out some of the worst movie accents, do moviegoers really care about movie character accents?

Rate movie accents: How important is it?

Bambi: One of the top horror movies ever?

The death scenes in Bambi too horrifying?

TIME is running a special feature on the Top 25 Horror Movies of all Time. Obviously, cool movies, such as Halloween and Carrie are on the list. Shaun of the Dead takes the top spot, which surprised me a bit, although I really liked the movie. Still, the most surprising horror movie: Bambi.

Rate your favorite horror movies. Also, does Bambi belong on this list?

Is the NBA rigged for stars like LeBron

Is LeBron James the new darling of the NBA?

Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James. What do they all have in common? Each has been a darling of the NBA - a marketing vehicle to increased revenue.

Does the NBA give these players and their teams an unfair advantage?

"I still don't think they (Cavaliers) beat us, we beat ourselves," Rasheed Wallace said. "And I think we also fell victim to that personal NBA thing where they are trying to make it a world game and get (television) ratings. They wanted to put their darling in there (the NBA Finals) and they did, and look what ended up happening.

"This game ain't basketball anymore, it's entertainment," Wallace said. "It's starting to get like the WWF. There ain't no real wrestling anymore either. It's all fake."

Rate the NBA: Is the NBA more about entertainment than competitive basketball?

Should online poker be legalized?

Is a poker a skill, sort of like a sport?

"About 100 members from the nonprofit Poker Players Alliance -- including poker stars Howard Lederer, Annie Duke, Chad Brown and Vanessa Rousso -- were in Washington this week to raise the stakes and push legislative proposals that would ease federal restrictions on Internet poker." (more)

Advocates for legalizing online poker claim that poker is a skill game, not just luck-driven gambling. What do you think?

Rate poker: Should online poker be legalized?

Hypocrite - Red Sox-Loving Rudy Giuliani?

Just a typical political poser?

"I'm a Yankee fan," Rudy Giuliani replied last summer. "I always believe it's a sign of my being straight with people, about not wanting to fool them, that I was one of the first mayors to be willing to say I was a Yankee fan."

He went on to say he had "great respect" for true Red Sox fans, but as for becoming a Red Sox cheerleader in a Devil's bargain, "Probably that's a deal I could not make," he said.

What? Politicians are hypocrites? Say it isn't so?

Rate Rudy: Hypocrite or American League fan.

Is your girlfriend this twisted?

Click the arrow to watch this crazy girlfriend



Gotcha!

Rate this video: Funny, stupid

Hogwarts headmaster is gay? Does it matter?

Do fans really care?

Since J.K. Rowling announced that Harry Potter character Albus Dumbledore, the headmaster of Hogwarts, was gay, the blogosphere has been buzzing.

I say, whatever.

Rate the Harry Potter series: Does it matter that Dumbledore is gay?

Rate Britney's fat lips

Botox baby!

"Brit hoped her new lips would improve her look without being really obvious to anyone," a source tells the London Daily Mail. "But onlookers literally stood [open]-mouthed when they saw her. She looked freaky."

Has Britney Spears become a very annoying attention-seeker?

Rate Britney's lips - Are they freakish?

Honk! Honk! Tired of car alarms, city noise?

Shut up already!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do "garbage trucks, horns honking, back-up beepers and worst of all, car alarms squealing at all hours", drive you crazy?

It drives me crazy. So much so that I buy cheap eggs to throw at such vehicles. Of course, I have to be careful because most of the a-holes whom make the most noise, whom honk endlessly at any hour, are the kind of ilk that just might pull out a gun.

Still........

Anyway, if this kind of stuff makes you as angry as me, then you might want to check out the new movie, NOISE.

Director Henry Bean was once arrested for breaking into a car to disable its car alarm, an act for which he wen to jail. Thus, he thought he'd make a movie about the issue, which Bean believes is a metaphor for power.

"For me, noise becomes a metaphor for power. The noise that I have to listen to, that I have no control over, that invades my house, my ears, my thoughts... in a way that's how our governments are," he said.

"We live in a world where the governments are extremely unresponsive to what the citizens want."

Rate urban noise - Is it out of control? Is there anything that can be done?

Do you believe in The Secret?

Do your thoughts control your world?

The universe is powered by the law of attraction according to The Secret and many other similarly themed books. Thus, think positive thoughts and positive things happen. Think negative thoughts and negative things happen. Think about yourself making money and you'll make money, etc., etc.

While I believe in the power of belief, it seems - even if the secret is true - that the power of the 'collective consciousness' and the 'collective thought' is by far more powerful than an individual thought.

Anyway, rate the secret: Do you believe?

Should Jimmy Kimmel be banned form MNF?

Wasn't he just being himself?

I might just have to stop watching MNF now that Jimmy Kimmel was banned for being himself. He makes goofy jokes. That's why Jimmy does, guys.

"Kimmel, who joined Mike Tirico, Tony Kornheiser and Ron Jaworski in the booth during the third quarter of the Giants' 31-10 win over the Falcons, joked about where Theismann was, insinuated that Kornheiser got Theismann fired (their on-air chemistry was often a topic of debate last season), and later remarked, "I'd also like to welcome Joe Theismann, watching from his living room with steam coming from his ears." (more)

Did the truth hurt too much for ESPN? And I thought ESPN was for men?

Rate ESPN and their decision to ban Jimmy Kimmel from Monday Night Football

Would you eat a 1,000 calorie breakfast burrito?

A.K.A. - The country breakfast bomb

"Hardee's on Monday rolled out its new Country Breakfast Burrito — two egg omelets filled with bacon, sausage, diced ham, cheddar cheese, hash browns and sausage gravy, all wrapped inside a flour tortilla. The burrito contains 920 calories and 60 grams of fat."

Is the country breakfast burrito a good idea, or does it demonstrate everything wrong with America's fast food diet and culture?

Rate the Country breakfast bomb

Don Imus back on the radio - Do you care?

Should he have been fired in the first place

"In a dramatic and dazzling career rebound, controversial radio host Don Imus has secured a deal returning him to the airwaves on December 3 -- this time on the nation's most listened to talk station, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned!"

Obviously, Imus made some pretty ridiculous statements regarding the Rutger's women's basketball team, but should he have been fired then? If so, should he be given a new radio station now, or be banned forever?

Rate Don Imus - Should he be allowed back on the radio?

2007 College Football Season: Greatest Ever?

Ohio State is now Number 1, but for how long?

You knew there was something special about this college football season when Appalachian State knocked off Michigan.

Anything could happen this season.

"That's why they play the game," I've heard so many times before. Yet, most times you know the game is just an exercise - that's why Vegas is so good at predicting winners and losers.

This season, however, has been upset season, and there are so many more important games to be played. I love it. If the season keeps going the way it is, two two-loss teams might play for the National Championship - that would be amazing.

Rate college football 2007 so far.

The NFL's TV contract SUCKS!

Bullriding or football game?

The NFL and cable TV suck. I'm seriously considering giving up on NFL football, SERIOUSLY.

I'm watching the Raider v. San Diego Game on CBS - it's my local game and it makes sense. So, what's on Fox? Might it be the Dallas v. Patriot game?

Hell no! Instead, it's bull riding, followed by reruns of MASH. F the NFL and cable TV!

Rate the NFL on cable TV.

Get immunized before going to NASCAR!

Democrat and Republican staffers attending NASCAR events must first be immunized against Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, tetanus, diphtheria, and influenza?

"I have never heard of immunizations for domestic travel, and as the representative for Concord, North Carolina, I feel compelled to ask why the heck the committee feels that immunizations are needed to travel to my hometown," Mr. Hayes, a Republican, said in a letter to Rep. Bennie Thompson, Mississippi Democrat and committee chairman.

Wow! I've never been to a NASCAR event, but I certainly wouldn't be worried about my immunizations if I went to such an event. Someone needs a good kick in the ass.

Rate the idiot that came up with this idea.

Is Madonna still relevant?

Or more relevant than ever?

"Pop star Madonna is close to leaving her long-time Warner Bros. Records label for a wide-ranging $120 million deal with concert promotion firm Live Nation Inc., a source familiar with the talks said on Wednesday."

"The story was first reported on the Wall Street Journal's Web site, which said Madonna would receive a mix of cash and stock in exchange for allowing Live Nation to distribute three studio albums, promote concert tours, sell merchandise and license her name."

So, is Live Nation making a mistake or the deal of a lifetime?

Rate Madonna: Is she still relevant or a has-been?

First new South Park

I love Tourette syndrome

As I was channel surfing last night I happened to catch the first episode of South Park's new season.

It's been some time since I last watched South Park, and I couldn't believe how vulgar the show has become, which made spin of the first show pretty funny - Tourettes Syndrome.

While in a toy store, Eric Cartmen learns what Tourettes Syndrome is and knows he has to have it. Yes, it was stupid, but damn funny.

Rate the first episode of South Park's new season.