Take That, GOP!
Back in 2009, it seemed like the Republican party was on its last legs. So Lester & Charlie enlisted a marketing genius to give them a leg up.
Looking back, it seems that the GOP took us too seriously. What do YOU think?
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Betting on Tomorrow
In Poll on December 30, 2011 at 11:52 am
This Week’s Poll!
Happy New Year! We’ll try to enjoy it, despite that – courtesy of a presidential election season that seems to have been going on forever – we’re already tired of 2012. It’s a long haul till next November. But each year brings surprises. Last year, we tried our best to guess what those would be. It’s time to see how well we did.
We predicted, accurately, that a GOP icon would be beset with rumors that his horsing around and holding hands with a handsome male friend would be fodder for rumors that he is gay. No, not Rick Perry! In a new biography from an ex-White House reporter, the latest rumored-to-be-homosexual towering Republican figure is… Richard Nixon.
We were less accurate in predicting that an angry moose would do the country a service and trample Sarah Palin, but perhaps that was just wishful thinking, anyway.
In better news, we were 100% accurate in predicting that neither Lester nor Charlie would give up drinking, gambling or maxing out our credit cards.
Alas, our inner optimists were wrong in predicting that 2011 would bring peace on earth, but we suppose we can wait impatiently for that one a little longer.
So what surprises does 2012 have in store? We’ve dug out our Magic 8 Ball and have made a few guesses. What do YOU think? Tell us!
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Kid Corp.!
The GOP Time Machine: Truth in Adverstising
In GOP Time Machine on December 24, 2011 at 2:05 pm
Republicans are calling for a return to the 1950s, but what does that mean? As a public service, Lester & Charlie are doing the homework so that you don’t have to.
In this report: Truth in advertising!
Watch more of the GOP Time Machine Series here!
Aunt Betty on Survival
In Aunt Betty's Almanac on December 22, 2011 at 9:01 pm
“Asking forgiveness is the hardest thing a feminist can do. So I stopped.”
-Aunt Betty’s Almanac
Just Say “No”
In Poll on December 22, 2011 at 12:49 pm
This Week’s Poll!
There are a lot of things that have been getting under our goat lately. Namely: words. They’re tossed around pretty carelessly these days. Maybe it has always been thus. But, until the day Shakespeare returns from the dead, we’ve decided it’s time we all got a lot less creative.
As it turns out, we’re not alone. A survey conducted by the Marist University in upstate New York has decided that, for the 3rd year in a row, “whatever” has the honor of being named the most annoying word of the year. It had some real competition from phrases like “you know” and “like” and “to tell you the truth.” But we wonder if these were seriously (another word in the top five) the most annoying phrases of 2011. We’ve all survived (so far) the GOP presidential primary. It’s no secret that we’ve all heard a lot of words and phrases we never want to hear again. (Is there anyone out there who can hear someone say “birth certificate” and not cringe?) So we wonder if the Marist University was being broad enough.
We all have our pet peeves. What are yours? What do YOU think are the most annoying phrases from 2011 that you never want to hear again?
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Michele Bachmann has a secret – a Baby Secret!
Aunt Betty on Fundamentalism
In Aunt Betty's Almanac on December 19, 2011 at 4:11 pm
“If the right people were medicated, I wouldn’t have to be.”
-Aunt Betty’s Almanac
Saturday’s Video Vault Selection
In Video on December 16, 2011 at 8:02 pmDry Cleaning!
“Don’t spend two dollars to dry clean a shirt. Donate it to the Salvation Army instead. They’ll clean it and put it on a hanger. Next morning buy it back for seventy-five cents.”
-Anonymous Tip
Lester & Charlie are always finding ways to beat the rotten economy and maintain their luxury lifestyles. In this episode, they show you how to cut corners by doing your own dry cleaning at home.
It’s easier than you might think!
Are You There, God Particle?
In Poll on December 15, 2011 at 12:01 pm
This Week’s Poll!
If You Got Here From The Newsletter, This Week’s Poll Is Actually HERE
For almost 50 years, science has been trying to prove (or disprove) the existence of Higgs boson, the so-called “God particle” that explains the dynamics of subatomic particles. The hunt for Higgs boson is, in fact, the main reason they built that 17-mile underground Large Hadron Collider underneath the Franco-Swiss border — the same collider that had people in a panic a few years ago because it was supposed to create microscopic black holes that would swallow up our section of the universe. (Update: That didn’t happen.)
What did happen this week is that researchers breathlessly announced that they may be close to proving that Higgs boson exists.
This is big news. Even we can understand that! The science is, of course, way over our heads, especially when we’re nursing our holiday party hangovers. But as best as we can understand it, proving that Higgs boson exists would mean that our universe actually makes sense. Go figure. After watching the latest series of GOP presidential debates, that’s the last thing we expected.
So what’s next? If scientists can use a 17-mile underground tunnel to find an as-yet hypothetical massive elementary particle that will prove the Standard Model of physics is actually correct, what else will they find? What’s the next mind-blowingly elusive thing that science might discover? What do YOU think?
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The Art of Do-It-At-Home Dry Cleaning!
Holiday Headline Hall of Fame Pt. 1
In Study Break on December 13, 2011 at 3:23 pm“Santa Drags Woman on Ground in Struggle while Taking other Woman’s Purse”
The pepper-spray and leave-a-man-for-dead holiday spirit didn’t die after Black Friday, according to The Jersey Journal and other sources.
Saturday evening, two women entered a taxi that started to pull off just as two drunken Santas — possibly refugees from SantaCon — barged into the back seat for no apparent reason. When one woman asked what was going on, which seems like a legitimate question, the “tall and overweight” Santa called her a “whore” — and in response, she threw his Santa hat out the window. Then, big Santa grabbed the so-called whore’s purse and opened the door of the speeding car, forcing the driver to pull over. The “whore” wouldn’t let go of the purse and was dragged out of the car by big Santa, a maneuver that injured her buttocks and forced her to let go of the purse.
Then the second woman jumped out of the taxi and, after a brief struggle with big Santa, was similarly grabbed by her purse and dragged across the pavement. Santa then took the first woman’s purse, threw it over a parking lot fence and apparently escaped up a chimney, as he has not been spotted again.
The lesson of this holiday story? Just more proof that the season of giving brings out the best in all of us.
