For all of the controversy surrounding the so-called Big Dig in Boston, with its mismanagement, shoddy work, corruption and waste, the total bill is about $14 billion. America’s presence in Iraq is now costing the United States $12 billion each and every month. And what, exactly, do we have to show for it, besides 4,000 dead Americans and record high gas prices?
Category: Politics, Religion & Money
Coffeeless Colbert
I’m feeling lazy tonight, so instead of lovingly transferring a Colbert Report video from the FiOS DVR, I’ll embed it from Comedy Central. This means, of course, it will probably no longer be available to you viewers who are visiting here in the future.
Hillary Clinton As a ‘Peanuts’ Character
This seems to be the gist of what Hillary Clinton is telling Barack Obama.
Ivory and Ebony on WABC, 1962
I enjoyed doing an oldies post last Saturday night, so I’ll do another one tonight. On the audio player is a classic WABC Musicradio jingle, then two songs from the WABC chart for the week ending June 30, 1962. The first one is number 19, followed by number 20.
[audio:http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2008/FEB/WABCJingle.mp3,http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2008/FEB/DrKildare.mp3,http://www.dograt.com/Audio/2008/FEB/INeedYourLovin.mp3]You must play the first song all the way through to get the full effect when the second song comes in. This is one of the best examples I’ve ever heard of the culture clash that was so unsettling to the White establishment of the time.
More Late Night Smack-Down
You may have noticed that I didn’t include absolutely everything in my video from the start of the Super Smash melee with Colbert-Conan-Stewart, so you’ll want to watch this.
Late Night Smack-Down
What do you do when your writers are on strike? Crossover, baby! Crossover.
[flv:/Video/2008/FEB/ColbertConanStewart.flv 440 330]Conan O’Brien is scary tall.