Henry Gibson 1936—2009

Henry Gibson, a wry comic character actor who was an original cast member of “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In,” graduated to the next world Monday, from his home in Malibu. He was 73.

The Scattered Brotherhood

Lift Your Spirit IN THESE TIMES you cannot afford to meet the shock of life with emotion; you cannot hate, you cannot fear.  The evil that you see has always been here;  the ignorance is not for you to judge, nor should you respond to it even in the sense of so-called righteous indignation.  We have tried to teach you …

The Religion of Nice

So here we are, wallowing in our dysfunction. Governed — if you listen to the rabble rousers — by a black nationalist from Kenya smuggled into the United States to kill Sarah Palin’s baby. And yes, I could almost buy their belief that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, only I think he shipped them to Washington, where they’ve been recycled as lobbyists and trained in the alchemy of money laundering, which turns an old-fashioned bribe into a First Amendment right.

The Warm Up

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZRVB4kq59Sw&eurl[/youtube] “I want health insurance that works as well for the American people as it does for the insurance industry.” —President Barack Obama

Cygnus

Jaded astronomy wonks will typically tell you that with the naked eye most of us can only distinguish about 2,500 stars under ideal conditions. What nonsense.

DESICCATING DICK

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIPgBfbMLCM[/youtube]Next time you see Dick on Fux Noise, think of him like this.