Note to Talking Heads
2007.10.03 (Wed) 14:23
Chris Matthews, have you learned nothing from Jon Stewart's appearance on Crossfire — where he correctly and effectively reproached Tucker Carlson and Paul Begala for doing nothing [»]
Don't Bogart the Constitution, Dude
2007.06.28 (Thu) 16:59
Joseph Frederick held up a banner in Juneau, Alaska, back in 2002. The banner read: Bong Hits 4 Jesus. Personally, we feel that Jesus himself would probably endorse this statement...if he could [»]
Duck and Cover
2007.02.24 (Sat) 11:27
We admit it — we find neo-con, er, "humor" to be so odd that it actually is funny to us, though always in a way that was never intended by the "comedian" in question. Sometimes we like to [»]
Another Reason Not to Read the Funny Pages (Like We Needed One)
2007.01.12 (Fri) 19:24
We don't read the funny pages anymore. In fact, we don't even subscribe to any newspapers — we get our news online, which is faster, cheaper, and far less likely to get ink stains on our fingers [»]
Coming Out of the Aneboda*
2006.10.24 (Tue) 15:58
We happened to have the television on in the background while working today, and suddenly noticed something interesting — a particularly progressive IKEA commercial.
The We happened to have the television on in the background while working today, and suddenly noticed something interesting — a particularly progressive IKEA commercial.
The [»]
Take Your Pick: Batshit Insanity or Disingenuous Avarice
2006.09.26 (Tue) 20:28
Of course you recall how proud Ann Coulter was of the fact that her most recent bound collection of hysterical lunacy was number one on the New York Times Best-Seller List. We were reminded of [»]
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!
2006.07.04 (Tue) 00:49
You'll note that, in the title above, we've capitalized our happy sentiment to our readers. Why? Because we at the Two Percent Company feel that it is imperative that we highlight a growing problem in [»]
Carlin vs. Coulter? Meh.
2006.06.15 (Thu) 22:05
Boy, what a disappointing bout of television watching. It was bad enough we had to sit through watching Jay "Badly Imitating Foreign People's Accents is Hilarious!" Leno in the first place, but to not [»]
Saint Dragon and the George
2006.06.08 (Thu) 13:49
As reported on God is for Suckers, a variety of Guevara-esque posters featuring the archly quizzical vi [»]
European Racism Version 2.0
2006.04.08 (Sat) 22:01
[Note: Since publishing this Rant, we've done a bit more research — due in part to our own suspicions, and in part to Dikkii's refreshingly blunt comment! Further research has led us to the c [»]
Jon Bounces Back
2006.03.14 (Tue) 13:25
After a fairly vanilla turn at the Oscars, Jon Stewart is back in form! On last night's Daily Show:
Jon: NASA is mounting an ambitious plan to build a luna [»]
Majikthise on Fox News Radio
2006.02.26 (Sun) 15:40
On Friday night, Lindsay Beyerstein of Majikthise fame, was the guest of, er, "honor" on fame, was the guest of, er, "honor" on [»]
Dave Letterman Lays a Smack Down on Bill O'Reilly
2006.01.05 (Thu) 21:54
In case you haven't heard about it, and as the title of this Rant suggests, David Letterman did indeed lay a smack down of epic proportions on Bill O'Reilly the other night. All we can say is: "Wow." [»]
Blogging in a Dangerous Time
2005.11.22 (Tue) 13:45
Who would have thought that the "Blog Revolution" would, of necessity, be so literal?
For all you bloggers out there, we encourage you to check out the ?
For all you bloggers out there, we encourage you to check out the [»]
Media Reports Semidiluvian Days in North Jersey
2005.10.21 (Fri) 09:57
The Daily Show had a little fun the other night, showing clips of the Today Show in which correspondent Michelle Kosinski valiantly paddled her canoe through the flooded streets of Wayne, NJ — r [»]
Andrew Sullivan Hears No Evil
2005.10.16 (Sun) 16:39
Skeptico has a post up discussing one aspect of Andrew Sullivan's appearance on Bill Maher's show. In particular, we learned two salient things from Skeptico's post and the wonderful discussion that e [»]
Best Quote of Last Week...
2005.10.11 (Tue) 21:53
...goes to Salman Rushdie, an amazingly likable guy. In response to Ben Affleck's reference to "fighting for free speech," which was itself in response to one of Bill Maher's less wholesome jokes, Rus [»]
Quite Reasonable Doubt
2005.10.05 (Wed) 10:57
These days, it's impossible to watch television without seeing advertisements for various shows — even when those shows aren't on the network you've tuned in to! So please keep in mind that we w [»]
On Being Almost Famous in Kansas City
2005.10.04 (Tue) 00:25
We were contacted last week by Aaron Barnhart from the entertainment beat of the Kansas City Star. He had come across our series on Allison DuBois, and wanted to cite us in an upcoming article. After [»]
Parodies of Cops Don't Understand Parody
2005.10.02 (Sun) 14:15
Brent Rasmussen of UTI brought our attention to what shortly became one of the newest faces in our Usual Suspects, fellow percentage blog 90% True. Specifically, Brent linked to Cody Cobb's true story [»]
Pareidolia on Parade
2005.10.02 (Sun) 00:31
As reported in the New York Times, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is running a gallery showing entitled The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult, displaying a variety of photographs of "ghostly" [»]
Schmevolution, Schmschmevolution
2005.09.29 (Thu) 23:15
So The Daily Show had their "Evolution? Schmevolution!" week (yeah, we know it was two weeks ago already), and we watched dutifully, expecting some great takedowns of the sheer dumbosity of creationis [»]
Bait and Switch: The Elusive Common Ground
2005.09.20 (Tue) 21:17
In reading our list of Usual Suspects, one argument that we often come across is the argument that science and religion are really "quite similar." Heck, we just heard this recently on our own site fr [»]
Don't Blame the Game
2005.08.14 (Sun) 21:27
File another one in the Things That Really Piss Us Off category. From ABC News: A 20-year-old whose lawyers claimed the video game "Grand Theft Auto" and childhood abuse caused him to kill three small [»]
Legislators Lagging Behind Media - By About Fifty Years
2005.07.27 (Wed) 18:19
Another good post from Les Jenkins — yes, we've been catching up on our SEB after a busy week — directs us to a press release regarding the recent ESRB rating change on the extremely popul [»]
Wait, Which Book Corrupts Children's Minds?
2005.07.16 (Sat) 14:56
In honor of the US release of the new Harry Potter book today, we wanted to mention something that we ran across on Skeptico. As you may know, the Catholic Church has spent the past few years whining [»]
Snappy Answers to Stupid Senators
2005.06.24 (Fri) 23:06
Wow — we actually heard someone get it totally right on Air America. Of course, it wasn't one of the hosts. It was a guest. This afternoon, on the The Al Franken Show, they welcomed guest Alta C [»]
Christian Phone Company Bullshit Makes Network News
2005.06.07 (Tue) 23:00
Last month, we posted a quick Rant regarding Eugene Mirman's hilarious (and scary) telemarketing recordings of Christian phone company UAT. We just want to say "Congratulations!" to Eugene on making t [»]
Air America: Slightly Better than Nothing
2005.06.07 (Tue) 21:16
Okay, so like many people who vehemently oppose BushCo, we've been listening to Air America radio. We wanted to get a feel for what left-wing talk radio sounds like in a world where right-wing talk ra [»]
Let's Get Some Perspective on the Quran Desecration
2005.05.17 (Tue) 12:19
So here's the flap. In their May 9th edition, Newsweek reported that, according to an anonymous source, United States military personnel in Guantanemo Bay had put copies of the Quran into toilets in a [»]
From Milliways to Mos Eisley
2005.05.15 (Sun) 22:15
Yes, we saw The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. And a lot of people whose opinions we respect have offered opinions ranging from "Well, it's not that bad" to "It was really awesome to see it on the [»]
What, He Didn't Inhale?
2005.05.11 (Wed) 22:01
We have so little to say about the circus freakshow currently whirling around the most circus-y freak of them all, former "King o' Pop" Michael Jackson. As with the non-stop dead pope coverage and the [»]
FCC Broadcast Flag Struck Down
2005.05.08 (Sun) 14:33
We've written before about some of the problems with the current state of regulation in the entertainment industry. There are still a lot of problems to be addressed, but for now, the FCC's Broadcast [»]
Why Is This Stupid Woman News?
2005.05.03 (Tue) 12:43
Apparently suffering from massive Pope-coverage withdrawal, the American media has latched onto a truly, utterly worthless story for their newest round of 24x7, wall-to-wall, media blitz coverage. But [»]
Media Sees Public's Stupidity, and Raises
2005.04.22 (Fri) 00:58
No, it's not news, but we just need to Rant — the majority of the people who make commercials are complete fucking idiots. That's no surprise, considering who they're aiming at with their market [»]
Boxjam Explains It All For You
2005.04.18 (Mon) 22:49
Boxjam rocks — he's one of our daily reads. Hey, blogs aren't the only thing on the Internet! Check out Boxjam's latest strip. (For the uninitiated, "Bup" is what Boxjam's kids, Boxjam Junior an [»]
The Guide vs. The Bible?
2005.04.11 (Mon) 15:27
The folks at Planet Magrathea have seen some showings of the upcoming Hitchhiker's Guide movie, and have compiled a list of elements found in previous versions of the story (the radio show, the books, [»]
More *@$%! Media Censorship?
2005.04.08 (Fri) 03:35
We recently received an email from the ACLU that warned us about impending censorship legislation which is about to be presented in the Senate. You can see a similar message on the ACLU web site. Acco [»]
Unintelligently Designed Journalism
2005.04.07 (Thu) 16:32
Jay Mathews, apparently an education columnist (if you can believe that) for the Washington Post, was bored and frustrated in his high school biology class — and apparently, he believes this is [»]
CNN: Your 24 Hour Dead Pope Network
2005.04.06 (Wed) 14:00
Jesus Christ on a stick! Enough about the Pope already. If this was coverage of our own deaths, we wouldn't want it to be this pervasive. This has nothing to do with what we thought of the man (he had [»]
Terri Schiavo: Psychics & Loons Set Us Straight
2005.03.26 (Sat) 14:36
In case you're not the kind who cottons to medical or legal facts, and if you're tired of all of the uninformed opinions circulating around the Terri Schiavo case, it's comforting to know that we have [»]
Extraordinary Fiction & Bullshit Claims
2005.03.25 (Fri) 18:47
It seems that some people took our commentary on Allison DuBois to mean that we don't like the show Medium. Just to set the record straight, that is not at all what we were saying. In fact, we don't w [»]
Tucker Carlson Is, Mostly, A Dick
2005.03.03 (Thu) 19:37
We were waiting for the transcript of last Friday's episode of Real Time with Bill Maher to come out — because that incredibly obtuse and unlovable little scamp, Tucker Carlson, was one of the p [»]
The Daily Show on Blogging
2005.02.17 (Thu) 19:30
Last night's epsiode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart had a lengthy opening segment that addressed the effect of blogging on the political landscape. Using AmericaBlog's breaking of the Jeff Gannon [»]
Marvel Madness
2005.02.08 (Tue) 09:29
In a casual perusal of the forums for the MMORPG City of Heroes, from NCsoft and Cryptic Studios, we came across a reference to one of the most ridiculous examples of frivolous lawsuits: Marvel Enterp [»]
EFF: Endangered Gizmos List
2005.02.07 (Mon) 22:04
Last month, the Electronic Frontier Foundation created a list of Endangered Gizmos — a watchlist for products and services that are being lobbied and legislated out of existence by large corpora [»]
Clear Evidence for Evolution, or Reason to Ban Calvin & Hobbes?
2005.01.29 (Sat) 11:42
We always knew that Calvin (of Calvin & Hobbes fame) was highly intelligent, but we didn't remember him taking a firm stand in the Evolution vs. Creationism debate. Apparently, he did, on January 29, [»]
Armstrong Williams and the Media Whores
2005.01.08 (Sat) 14:01
Armstrong Williams is, apparently, a well-known conservative television and radio commentator and columnist. That was news to us, but then he does seem to be just another conservative shill, and we te [»]
Based On a True Story? White Noise and EVP
2005.01.02 (Sun) 23:38
Is it just us, or has there been a disturbing trend of entertainment endorsing crackpot bullshit lately? We've talked about the SciFi channel, and their endorsement of ghosts and spirit mediums. CourT [»]
Tsunami Death Toll Continues to Rise
2004.12.31 (Fri) 02:56
We haven't said anything about the tsunami that hit Southeast Asia earlier this week for two reasons; first, we've been on hiatus due to the holidays, so we haven't said anything about anything lately [»]
ACLU Screws Up - Er, no, wait...
2004.12.21 (Tue) 17:32
When we first read this article about how a teen's privacy won out over a parent's right to raise their children, we were outraged. When we read that the ACLU had filed an amicus brief in favor of the [»]
CAP Alert: Good Idea, Bad Execution
2004.12.16 (Thu) 14:44
On our journeys through the World Wide Web, we do indulge in a particular vice: visiting websites which we find exceedingly misguided or deranged, simply for our own amusement. One such site, however, [»]
SciFi Channel is More "Fi" Than "Sci"
2004.12.01 (Wed) 16:41
In James Randi's weekly wrap-up, Guy Matthews of the UK writes in to tell us about what the SciFi channel did to Merrye Olde Englande. In 2001 Sci-Fi UK announced they were going to be setting up shop [»]