Surprise, surprise: Fox News manufactures scandal around Obama

I found the following clip on YouTube:



It is a short piece about Fox News' biased coverage (manufacture, even) of various Barack Obama-related scandals. It opens with the statement: "Attack politics on a TV channel. Usually you leave attack politics to a political campaign." I think the speaker, whose name I can't quite make out, fails to realize that Fox News is the device of a political campaign: an ongoing one, the scope of which far supercedes the scope of conventional political campaigns. To suggest that Fox News should obey the rules of informative TV channels is to give it too much credit by even placing it in that category.

Sing to me forever, Melinda Doolittle

In a follow up to her shockingly brilliant performance of My Funny Valentine, American Idol goddess Melinda Doolittle (or Mindy Doo, which I think should catch on) melted my face again last night with her rendition of Peggy Lee's I'm a Woman:

While she's been a terrific singer all season, only in the last two weeks has Melinda shown us a level of unquestionable early-season dominance that surpasses even Chris Daughtry's reign during season 5. Her voice places her in a class far above the other contestants, but her personality, creativity, stage presence, and smile render her an unstoppable contender for this year's Idol.

I wish Melinda Doolittle would hurry up and record an album so I can devour it. Her voice is my nourishment, and I can't live forever on four or five YouTube clips.

List of upcoming movies that Dank and I have to see (and in parentheses, our better names for them):

• Ghost Rider ("Hell Bike Man")
• Black Snake Moan ("Snakes on a Chain")
• 300 ("That one about Sparta")

Update 4/2/2007: Wow, 300 was totally awesome. Go watch it, at IMAX if you can.