Ladies & Gentlemen, the pilot episode for this fall’s hottest new series, The 700 Club After Dark.

[via Right Wing Watch]

So we were watching Midnight in Paris last weekend, and—

Wait. Let’s set this up.

We’ve been angry — pissed — at Woody Allen for our entire adult life. Nothing to do with Mia or Soon-Yi — just a profound disappointment in his creative product. Manhattan ties with 2001 as our favorite film ever. Stardust Memories is the last Woody Allen film we thoroughly enjoyed — and still do.

And then he fell off a cliff.

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We’re not sure how long ago we began to distrust ThinkProgress as a news source, but it’s been awhile. Our rule of thumb before sourcing them is to source their sources — we can’t even run their transcript of a posted video without checking the text.

Monday brought Yet Another Example why ThinkProgress makes our teeth grate:

EXCLUSIVE: 140 Companies Drop Advertising From Rush Limbaugh

It’s not Exclusive! — Radio-Info.com ran the scoop on Friday. It’s also misleading — there’s no demonstration that the advertising was “dropped”.

But let’s hear the pitch:

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President Obama, responding to Sunday’s massacre of sixteen Iraqi civilians by an American soldier:

“We need to look forward as opposed to looking backwards.”

Oops, we’re sorry. Wrong statement:

“I fully support Secretary Panetta’s and General Allen’s commitment to get the facts as quickly as possible and to hold accountable anyone responsible.”

We understand. Once you hit six figures, responsibility is rendered quaint.

Statement by the President on Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan [White House]

Obama Reluctant to Look Into Bush Programs [NYT, 1/11/2009]

Being of a Certain AARP-Qualified Age, we remember Pong. We remember the night it showed up at Charlie’s Pool Hall on Willamette, everybody gathered around it like the crowd watching the Close Encounters Mothership land: Oooooooooh. We also remember, not that many years later, being stoned beyond belief and killing at Centipede, after which we gave up on videogames forever, because really, once you’ve achieved satori, there’s no going back.

So yeah, we remember the Golden Age of video arcades. And what we remember doesn’t sound like this:

The idea here, according to the OAK-U-TRON’s designers, is to capture the feel of the arcade era, when gaming was an inherently social venture.

If by “social” you mean that we all hung out at Charlie’s on weekend evenings, sure. But if you’re trying to suggest that it was a cooperative atmosphere, you never bore the brunt of Karl’s glee when he whipped yer ass at Breakout. Videogames were just a new way to fail before your peers.

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We never met Derrick Bell. But we were around.

Bell came to Eugene in 1980, our senior year, as the new dean of the University of Oregon law school — and one of the first black deans of a non-black law school in the nation. Everybody was so proud, because that’s the kind of thing Eugene likes to be proud about.

Especially when a single black family moving to town would significantly increase Eugene’s diversity quotient. We were all nice people. But in Eugene, we were predominately nice white people.

Or, as we liked saying at the time: It’s easy to be Tolerant when there’s little to bother being Tolerant about.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1huadpHcjk

Let’s check in with Stinque senior political analyst Horatio Hippo on the seven hours of Super Tuesday coverage we watched.

[via Sully]