Front page Archive Why Arlen? Arlen is the TV home of "King of the Hill." It's a small conservative town that is threatened with ruination on a regular basis by twig boys, enviro wackos, diversity nuts, "PC" police and other ivory tower liberals. I like to think of Arlen as a metaphor for this here great nation of ours.

Monday, October 31, 2005 Posted 7:21 AM by Hank WHOOPI AT "FAMILY SHOW": TOM DELAY IN HANDCUFFS MADE MY WEEK ITHACA—Outspoken liberal actor Whoopi Goldberg delivered an obscenity laden tirade to students and parents, bashing Republicans and joking about her own marijuana use, at Cornell University’s “family weekend” comedy show on Friday (October 28). “Tom DeLay in handcuffs made my week,”Goldberg reportedly said, referring to the arrest of the former House majority leader. “When they took his mug shot and fingerprints, I thought I’d died and went to heaven.” In addition to attacks on the Bush adminstration and FEMA, Goldberg also “shocked audience members with frank talk about bathroom humor, her marijuana use and aging,” the Cornell Daily Sun reported. “If you thought you were coming to see Sister Act, you were f**king wrong,” Goldberg said. As a “family weekend” comedy show, Goldberg’s performance attracted an “all ages” crowd, including college students, their parents and even some elementary school aged children, the Sun reported. In addition to the “Sister Act” movies, Goldberg is known for such films as Rat Race, Monkeybone and Theodore Rex. She also starred in the short-lived NBC series “Whoopi.” Tuesday, October 25, 2005 Posted 2:35 PM by Hank THE AXIS OF WEASELS STRIKES AGAIN The Telegraph is reporting that the Agent behind fake uranium documents worked for France: The Italian businessman at the centre of a furious row between France and Italy over whose intelligence service was to blame for bogus documents suggesting Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy material for nuclear bombs has admitted that he was in the pay of France. The man, identified by an Italian news agency as Rocco Martino, was the subject of a Telegraph article earlier this month in which he was referred to by his intelligence codename, "Giacomo". His admission to investigating magistrates in Rome on Friday apparently confirms suggestions that - by commissioning "Giacomo" to procure and circulate documents - France was responsible for some of the information later used by Britain and the United States to promote the case for war with Iraq. Italian diplomats have claimed that, by disseminating bogus documents stating that Iraq was trying to buy low-grade "yellowcake" uranium from Niger, France was trying to "set up" Britain and America in the hope that when the mistake was revealed it would undermine the case for war, which it wanted to prevent. Friday, October 14, 2005 Posted 7:19 AM by Hank NEW STONES ALBUM A BOMB? Fox News is reporting that the latest album by the Rolling Stones, "A Bigger Bang," is "less than a month old, [and] already out of the Top 50." "A Bigger Bang" is the album that features "Sweet Neo-Con," a rare poltical song from the band, and one that attacks President Bush and Condoleezza Rice as "full of sh-t." Fox also reports that the latest album by frequent Bush critic Barbra Streisand, "Guilty Pleasures," "has caused little excitement even among her rabid fans." Both the Stones and Streisand are acts that appeal to the adult segment of the music buying public. Approximately half that public votes Republican. Maybe, therefore, the lesson is to not attack the politics of approximately half your potential audience. Monday, October 10, 2005 Posted 6:16 AM by Hank UNICEF KILLS THE SMURFS Finally, the U.N. does something right: The people of Belgium have been left reeling by the first adult-only episode of the Smurfs, in which the blue-skinned cartoon characters' village is annihilated by warplanes. The short but chilling film is the work of Unicef, the United Nations Children's Fund....It opens with the Smurfs dancing, hand-in-hand, around a campfire and singing the Smurf song. Bluebirds flutter past and rabbits gambol around their familiar village of mushroom- shaped houses until, without warning, bombs begin to rain from the sky. Tiny Smurfs scatter and run in vain from the whistling bombs, before being felled by blast waves and fiery explosions. The final scene shows a scorched and tattered Baby Smurf sobbing inconsolably, surrounded by prone Smurfs. The final frame bears the message: "Don't let war affect the lives of children." As someone who grew up on Saturday Morning fare "Jonny Quest," "Space Ghost," and even "Super-friends," I always hated those little blue Eurotrash socialist bastards. I'd actually pay good money to own this on DVD. Home