Speaking of Myron Floren, and in honor of 4/20, we proudly present Gail and Dale in a heartfelt rendition of the modern spiritual “One Toke Over the Line”.

What? 4/20 was yesterday? Shit, who runs their life by a calendar? Fucking fascists.

[via Sully]

Same Assholes, Different Religion:

A senior Iranian cleric says women who wear immodest clothing and behave promiscuously are to blame for earthquakes…

“Many women who do not dress modestly… lead young men astray, corrupt their chastity and spread adultery in society, which (consequently) increases earthquakes,” Hojatoleslam Kazem Sedighi was quoted as saying by Iranian media. Sedighi is Tehran’s acting Friday prayer leader.

Aside from the fact that earthquakes precede humanity by some 4.53 billion years, that makes perfect sense.

Iranian cleric: Promiscuous women cause quakes [AP/Yahoo]

Maybe it’s a consequence of having grown up in the Alan Alda Seventies, but we’ve never understood Dude Culture. We’re certainly aware of it — any beer commercial will provide quick instruction — but it’s always been a world completely foreign to us. There’s something so fragile about it all, the fear that membership in the Guy Club is so easily revoked.

Especially if you change your action movie’s leading character from a man to a woman:

But the process was a bit trickier than just changing the hero’s name and adding high heels. “In the original script, there was a huge sequence where Edwin Salt saves his wife, who’s in danger,” says [Salt director Phillip] Noyce. “And what we found was when Evelyn Salt saved her husband in the new script, it seemed to castrate his character a little. So we had to change the nature of that relationship.”

Yes, it’s fine and dandy for Angelina Jolie to kick butt, but let’s not get carried away with that Grrrrl Power crap. No Anerican Male is shelling out twelve bucks just to watch some wuss who can’t rescue himself with a snappy one-liner.

Then again, we’re not entirely immune to the world we live in: We honestly, deeply hate asking strangers for directions.

[Entertainment Weekly, April 23/30 issue]

[X17online]

Our fact-checking for the following consists of desperately wanting it to be true:

Dominic Deville stalks young victims for a week, sending chilling texts, making prank phone calls and setting traps in letterboxes.

He posts notes warning children they are being watched, telling them they will be attacked.

But Deville is not an escaped lunatic or some demonic monster.

He is a birthday treat, hired by mum and dad, and the ‘attack’ involves being splatted in the face with a cake.

‘The child feels more and more that it is being pursued,’ said Deville.

Feels?

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Trey and Matt talk to Xeni Jardin of Boing Boing on the eve of rolling the episode odometer. Looking back on a dozen years of respected and popular achievement, Trey accepts his fate: “We’re not punk anymore.”

It’s been almost two years since Secretary of State Swampsow set off our alarm by idly suggesting that, well, you never know what might happen in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel. And about eighteen months since Half-Governor Talibunny accused a major-party presidential candidate of “palling around with terrorists.” And just a few seasons since it became the fashion to pack heat at political rallies.

We’ve done our fair share of fretting, while we’ve also tried not to get too excited over each and every twist. We’ve lived through two major earthquakes. You don’t jump for the door every time the couch wiggles.

So there’s nothing particularly unique about the latest news, only a gut feeling that a line is being crossed:

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