Response Time

Time once again to answer readers' questions with snark, verbal gymnastics and general horseshit rather than insight and respect.

It's the Daily Banter mailbag -- now with more sexual fantasizing about Ann Coulter.

The Daily Banter Mailbag

The Bob & Chez Show After Party 4.6.12

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This week: Chez Is Jack's Ikea Nesting Instinct; Starting Life From Scratch; The Dark Knight Outtakes with Christian Bale and Morgan Freeman; Nutmeg Will Eff You Up Good; New Contraceptive Injection for Men Who Really, Really Hate Condoms; Urinary Tract Infections; Google Glasses and Annoying Auto-Refresh Technology; and oh so much more.

"I'm Laughing at the Superior Intellect"

Hey, guess what? The rest of the world thinks we're a bunch of backward-ass hicks.

"Europe is scratching its head over the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will strike down President Obama's signature legislative achievement. As the judiciary and the Obama administration trade legal barbs over the high court's authority, the idea that health care coverage, largely considered a universal right in Europe, could be deemed an affront to liberty is baffling."

American exceptionalism. As in, we're the exception to the civilized world's standard of decency and sanity.

The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show 4.5.12

Keith Olbermann Is a Disappointing Asshole Who Just Got Fired by Current TV; Behind the Scenes TV Psychology; Howard Stern at Sirius vs Keith Olbermann at Current; President Obama and False Equivalences; Who Will Be Mitt Romney’s VP; Santorum or Paul Ryan; RNC Chairman Says War Against Women is Fiction; The Long List of Attacks on Women; Bob and Chez are Both a Little Hung Over; and much more. Brought to you by Bubble Genius.

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Yes We Can!

My latest piece for the Daily Banter is now up. The subject: the fact that we've finally reached the point where a news organization just feels like it can come right out and admit that it engaged in illegal activity and -- as if that's not enough -- follow it up with an arrogant, "You're welcome."

Feel free to take a look and comment either here or at Banter.

The Daily Banter/Yes We Can!/4.6.12

Listening Post

They were a late-90s one-hit wonder, but if you live in Southern California -- or really anywhere near a beach -- this is still kind of your song.

Here's Len's Steal My Sunshine.

Happy Friday, kids.

The Palin Show

My latest piece for the Daily Banter is now up. It deals with NBC's recent, idiotic decision to allow Sarah Palin to host the Today show -- and how I didn't even need to see the thing to know exactly how it played out and the kind of thinking that went into it.

Please, you read, yes?

The Daily Banter: The Palin Show/4.4.12