Swompdonkey

Beclownery:

Beclown: Verb. To make a complete idiot of oneself in public. To behave or speak in such a way, or to make a comment or express an opinion that is so profoundly witless, senseless and obtuse, that you have forever after defined yourself as a person of comical value only. Never to be taken seriously again. Of worth only as an object of ridicule and derision.

Exhibit A:



Funny: Robert Smigel

Not Funny: Some charisma-free wannabe comedian with a rabbit puppet

Exhibit B:

Bobby Caina Calvan thoroughly beclowns himself Uniting the blogosphere in scorn and disgust

Check out some of the comments at the bottom of the post!

Update: To his credit, Bobby is now facing the music

Calvina could learn a thing or two by looking up the Wartime Columns of Ernie Pyle

Definitely worth a read!

Pyle was killed by a machine-gun bullet while covering American operations on IE Shima, on April 18, 1945.

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From Guantanamo:

Khalid Sheikh Muhammad Hearing Transcript

A peek into the diseased mind of an islamist killer. The confession, which is all there, in stark black and white, starts on p. 17.

Truthers should have a jolly old time wrapping their heads around those few paragraphs!

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Ted Rall is Scum:

Meanwhile:

The high school graduation rate among recruits is higher than it is among the national youth population, and once they get in, most soldiers get even more educated:

" While the active-duty enlisted ranks have fewer college grad­uates than the comparable civilian population, DOD annual updates on population representation indicate that many who join the military are taking advantage of educational opportunities while serv­ing and that many others continue their education after completing their enlistment period."

And what's more, research would seem to indicate an overall rise in the quality of recruits, not a decline.

Also, current Iraq Honcho General David H. Petraeus, with his PhD from Princeton University, debates whether combat officers actually need PhDs, or can they make do with a "basic" Masters degree . Petraeus, being the egghead that he is, actually favours doctorates for field-grade officers!

I call Bullshit, Ted


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Hardest working drunk in showbiz:

48 for 24 star

I saw this a while back, but it occurs to me now that the bigger story here is that Sutherland is not only an unapologetic high-functioning alkie, but also a real team player.

How many other stars would fast-track their own case, forfeiting the right to plead down, so that they could get back to work with as little disruption as possible for the sake of their production team?

Keifer had to swallow this kind of time because this isn’t the first time the notorious partier has been tagged for DUI… and because he absolutely wanted to work his sentence into 24’s production schedule.

Bonus betcha-didn't-know 24 content:

Did you know that the actor who played Season One Baddie Ira Gaines is the guy who had the misfortune of firing the gun that killed Brandon Lee on the set of The Crow in 1993? Tragic.