I mean, really…People will devote three hours of their life a day listening to someone demonize people who disagree with them. Just read and re-read the quotes in that link. Racism is the province of the left, just as stupidity and a penchant for trying to divide people and whip them up by arousing hatreds that this linked interview illlustrates is the absolute province of the right. Both sides have...

Mike Lane, Cagle Cartoons

Actor Bob May, best known for playing the Robot in the 1960′s series Lost In Space has died at the age of 69. “He always said he got the job because he fit in the robot suit,” said June Lockhart, who played family matriarch Maureen Robinson. “It was one of those wonderful Hollywood stories. He just happened to be on the studio lot when someone saw him and sent him to see Irwin Allen about...

Following up on my earlier column, in which you learned to understand the basic concept of money, it is only natural that you would now wish to get a large supply of it for yourself. The problem facing many of you, of course, is that you haven’t the first hint of an idea where to begin. You might be laboring under the tired, old “conventional wisdom” which seeks to convince you that you either...

The list is here. What — no Michael Moore flicks?

News today that two of the legends of Hollywood have passed on. The first loss came this morning with word that Patrick McGoohan had died at the age of 80. McGoohan gained his fame during the James Bond mania of the 1960′s when he starred in two spy series, first the show Secret Agent and then leapt to superstardom in The Prisoner. Once described in The Times as an “espionage tale as crafted by...

Many of you may be familiar with Tippi Hedren from her long and storied movie career, starting with her iconic role in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic horror film, The Birds. But you may be unaware that for the last 25 years she has also been heading up an important preservation project. Shambala is a sanctuary for big cats located north of Los Angeles. The Roar Foundation, founded in 1983 by Tippi Hedren,...

In an interview with conservative John Ziegler, Sarah Palin lashed out at Katie Couric and Tina Fey for exploiting her during the campaign: I did see that Tina Fey was named entertainer of the year and Katie Couric’s ratings have risen. I know that a lot of people are capitalizing on, oh I don’t know, perhaps some exploiting that was done via me, my family, my administration — that’s...

President Elect Barack Obama yesterday urged members of both parties in Congress to move swiftly to act on an economic stimulus package. Here’s a song that tells us what we are likely to get:

Here’s some classic jazz for those who hate jazz as well as those who love it (one that almost everyone loves). The great jazz pianist/singer/composer Fats Waller doing his song “Your Feets Too Big” (circa 1940s): More on Waller’s music HERE.

Since I (we) nearly forgot to mark his birthday, this seemed the best video pick. Still one of the greatest, if only he could have stuck around to celebrate with us today.

One of the talk shows I periodically listen to is the Clark Howard show. Howard is a consumer advocate and often provides some useful advice regarding how to protect yourself financially. I have heard a couple pretty important tips in the last few weeks so I thought I would take a moment to pass them on. We at TMV not only like to offer endless recitations of our own opinions, from time to time we like to actually...

David Fitzsimmons, The Arizona Star

Larry Lessig is pleased that president-elect Obama has chosen Elena Kagan, his dean at Harvard Law School, for solicitor general. Kagan is credited with attracting major legal scholars to Harvard, especially Cass R. Sunstein from the University of Chicago and, more recently, Lessig himself from the Stanford University Law School. But Lessig may be less pleased with some of Obama’s justice picks, says CNet’s...

And a headache for cable and telephone companies. Reed Hastings, the CEO of Netflix: We want to watch what we want, when we want, where we want, and discover the content how we want. So how well are we doing in the areas of “where,” “when,” “what” and “discoverability”? We’re about 15 percent of the way to “what you want,” 100 percent at “when you want,” 15 percent towards “where...

“Since ancient times, almanackers sought the future from the stars and from animal entrails, forecasting the weather, the tides and the phases of the moon. This was valuable work, of course, but really only useful to farmers and sailors and werewolves.” John Hodgeman The Areas of My Expertise If you would like a fun, light read to start off your new year, pick up a copy of this book. Hodgeman is...

What is the depth of the good-will generally facing President Elect Barack Obama? One sign is the fact that he will be taking office with some of the strongest polling numbers a President Elect has had since Ronald Reagan. Another: a new book of comprehensive, behind-the-scenes photos of Obama, Power House Book’s “Yes We Can” sold out its first 55,000 copy printing before it even hit the...

Here’s #4 in 365gay’s Top 8 gay videos of 2008… Separately, and significantly, David Bianculli named the Daily Show #1 in his Top 10 TV List of 2008. And when Terry Gross asked on Fresh Air recently if he could give an example of how the comedy shows have demonstrated a new model for the political interview, Bianculli said the Huckabee interview was a great example: Mike Huckabee was promoting...

The glories — and pitfalls — of live TV were on full foot-in-mouth display on New Year’s Eve when comic Kathy Griffith surprised CNN bigwigs, most-likely raised eyebrows with some viewers — and most assuredly triggered exclamations of “Oh no, not THAT LINE AGAIN!!” responses from professional comedians. She used an anti-heckler line that many news reports insinuate (by omission)...

What is common between Barack Obama and all these guys and gal…Monica Lewinsky, Napoleon Bonaparte, Oscar Peterson, Russell Baker, Dustin Hoffman, Louis Armstrong, Menachem Begin and Robert Redford? In Chinese astrology, as interpreted by my favourite Suzanne White, all of them are “Ox & Leo”. (In my earlier posts I had mentioned about Suzanne’s apt/fun descriptions about G.W. Bush...