A Tribute to Tom Lehrer

Before Steve Martin or Richard Pryor, before George Carlin, before Bob Newhart and yes even before Lenny Bruce, there was Tom Lehrer. Lehrer began releasing comedy albums all the way back in 1953, even before the concept of the comedy album had really been established. But Tom wasn't your ordinary stand up comic - he was something so unique that quite frankly no one like him has ever appeared on the stage since. Tom Lehrer was a comedian, a musician,...

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Homeland Insecurity

To say the United States has lived in a cocoon of paranoid over-reaction for the past decade or so is perhaps an understatement. What 9/11 really seemed to accomplish more than anything was to give credence and deference to media-fueled mass hysteria. There was no logic or reason to how this country reacted to that tragedy. On the one hand we launched several ill-considered wars which when combined now represent the longest conflict in American history....

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Snow White & the Seven Bullfighters

Once every decade or so you find a movie that changes the way you view cinema and so utterly delights you that adjectives fail to adequately describe the experience. Not too long ago - this happened to us. We had literally stumbled upon the film - we had heard nothing about it. It showed up in one of the more obscured categories on our cable provider's pay per view section and we had no idea what it was about until we watched the preview (thankfully...

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