A truly sad day in entertainment. Harvey Korman, a true comedic genius, died from complications of an abdominal aneurysm. You will be missed.

Go rent High Anxiety tonite in tribute to Mr. K.

I found this picture last night on MyConfinedSpace.com and laughed pretty hard. Being a lolcat and Cthulhu fan, I just found it hilarious.

If you haven’t heard, Charlton Heston died yesterday at the ripe old age of 84. While I don’t revel in his death, he did kind of sort of go nutty with the whole NRA thing.

While most of the world remembers him for Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments, CH will always be remembered by me as Taylor, the wayward astronaut lost on the crazy mixed up ape planet. Talk about monkey love…

Anyway, I guess we can pry that gun from his cold dead hands now.

It’s kind of funny how all these god-freaks are kicking the bucket lately. I’m sure their loved ones all feel that it’s “god’s plan” or “god’s will”. It just makes me chuckle.

All the faith and prayer in the world couldn’t save Tammy Faye Messner from lung cancer…

Since deaths (especially of religious idiots) seems to come in threes, I wonder who will be next.

It only took five hours for fearless leader to let his boy Scooter off the hook. Ok, so, he outed a CIA operative, was found guilty in a federal court, but, ya know, well, he’s suffered enough. The only possible reason that fearless leader would feel that way about Scooter (and commute his sentence) is because he wasn’t the real source of the leak. It stands to reason, and by the administration’s actions sort of affirms that Scooter merely took the fall for Karl.

Here’s my message to Mr. Libby:

Scooter, if you were uninvolved and took the fall for the crooks in office, you’re an idiot. These guys don’t give two shits about you. Hope it was worth it.

I found this today. It’s old, but funny. The Conservative Voice is always good for a laugh.

Multi-millionaire evangelist and founder of the Moral Majority, Jerry Falwell, dead at the age of 73. Cause is still unknown, but I think God had other plans for him…

Read the CNN story here.

I read today that seven of the eight US recontruction projects in Iraq are non-functional. Some of them are even abandoned! Your tax dollars hard at work!

Read about it here.

Found this today. I think it’s well done.

I awoke to the CNN breaking news alert on my phone today with the news of the death of Kurt Vonnegut.

As a long time Vonnegut fan, I was saddened by the news. So many things can be said about the man. He was a visionary, a great writer, and more importantly, a fantastic story teller. Those of you who haven’t read his books should brush up. They’re quite good. Comical stories of far off lands or impossible situations which metaphorically represent some twisted aspect of his life experience were his staple. Sure, he wrote some bland fiction, but novels like Slaughterhouse Five and Breakfast of Champions were truly his best work.

Goodbye Kurt, you will be missed.

I guess I’ll give poor Karen a break here and write about another Dead Tony story that does not involve her.

This happened after Tony died. We were at the wake. Friends and family were filing through giving their last respects. Tony’s parents had dressed him in a suit that was several sizes too small.  Mainly because Tony put on a few pounds while being on long term disability. It was known of his vicodin issue by certain family members at this time, hence the funniness.

In any case, Tony was stuffed in this tiny suit and then stuffed into this casket (very nice one too). His shirt was too tight and his shirt collar was pressed up into his lower jaw. This accentuated the “double chin” into what looked like a hamster with cheeks full of food.

One family member, Chuck, noted as he paid his respects that Tony looked like “he was storing up vicodin for the winter.”

One last thing about that day. I had blown my nose in a tissue and, out of respect for Tony, stuffed it in his casket under his leg. I didn’t do it to be gross or defiant. I did it because I knew that Tony would have thought it was hilarious.