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great article about dennis miller

Check it here. The author basically talks about how Miller was his hero but has fallen from grace. I too cannot stand to hear the man continue to defend Bush and come off as generally unfunny and wrong. A quote to give you a taste:

Instead, in 2004, Miller made the cardinal sin when it comes to being a topical comic. Here's what he said about doing jokes about Dubya.



I like him. I'm going to give him a pass. I take care of my friends.



While some might see this as being a standup guy, in the stand-up world of the topical comedian, you can't take the President off the radar. It's like unilaterally disarming. How can I respect the guy's views, when he isn't calling the game with even a modicum of criticism for the President?

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Weekly Dig Column #12 - Bill me later

The thing about having a biweekly column is that I actually have to write that joint biweekly! Check out this week's installment in The Weekly Dig (free at Boston newsstands and cool places like Relic; also free at the Internet and places like this blog). I take a flash backward to my high school years and the making of a young radical:
As president of the Black Student Union, I was constantly called into meetings about issues of race. I spent an unhealthy amount of time compiling reports on the quality of life for students of color. While I should have been learning in the classroom, I was often expected to teach, on demand, from my presumed edition of the Negropedia: A Comprehensive Repository of All Black Knowledge for the Edification of White People.

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Me = YouTube Pick of the Day

I was a YouTube Pick of the Day!

Hey, my recent upload of an 8 minute standup set got about 11,000 plays in a 21 hour period. They say it's because I was "pick of the day." Not sure what that means, but it's hot.

Update June 6 @ 10:48: My video plays are up to 15,500 for this clip!! This is so cool. Why do I feel like I just got on Carson?

Update June 6 @ 11:40: My favorite comment on the video so far...

"dumbass libral crackhead welfare sucker...."

I'm gonna add that to my press kit. Really

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See my video on a site about Wal-Mart

A video clip of one of my Wal-Mart jokes was just added to a blog called The Beauty in Wal-Mart.

The site describes itself as follows:

The Beauty In Wal-Mart was created to show how amazing everyone is, by providing an outlet for the good and bad feelings about Wal-Mart. Just look at how creative and powerful the posts have been so far, and you'll see what we're after.

Why Wal-Mart? Because it's at the top of the mountain. Just about everyone is affected by Wal-Mart, and it's time we found out who they are—who we all are—so we can do away with the impersonal nature of so many things in our world.

I like that they've put this together. I generally dislike Wal-Mart for its healthcare practices, anti-union thuggery, destruction of local economies and promotion of unsustainable consumer culture. If our society is racing toward armageddon, then Wal-Mart is our flux capacitor, but there are some interesting perspectives on the positive side as well. Many of the positive stories on that site focus on how affordable Wal-Mart is and how people barely getting by have no other options for essential services like prescription drugs.

Check it.

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