Winners take, losers give

Now that the GOP has 98% of what they wanted in the debt ceiling deal, it’s up to Stephen Colbert to finish the job of destroying Obama’s Presidency. He can do it with the money he’s collecting for his SuperPAC. What do you get if you donate? Besides the chance to see your name crawling along the bottom of the screen during The Colbert Report, you get this wonderful, autographed JPEG!

The original image is very high res, so you can count every wrinkle and nose hair! I donated fifty bucks, now it’s your turn!

Stephen Colbert returns to my birthplace

I’m certain the reason Stephen Colbert attended Northwestern University was because it’s in Evanston, Illinois, where I was born. That’s what I told Colbert when I saw him in New York in 2007, and he agreed with me.

Colbert gave this year’s commencement speech at Northwestern. Here are edited highlights…

Alumnus Stephen Colbert Addresses the Class of 2011 from Northwestern News on Vimeo.

… and this is the whole thing.