Cuppacafe

Yeah, you read that right. Even though I’m a fan of Mr. Colbert and a member of his “nation" I want to give him something of a bitch slap for incorrectly displaying the American Flag on Thursday night’s episode of his coverage of the Winter Olympics. Yep, he (well his set dresser), hung the US flag wrong for one of the segments of his show:

As you can clearly see from this image that was lifted from his sketch Freud Rage - The Iceman Counseleth - Shani Davis both U.S. flags are hung vertically with the blue field in the upper right. As any Boy Scout knows, when hung, the U.S. Flag is always hung with the blue field in the upper left.

Seriously, shame on Colbert for screwing up so simple a thing as this.

The Perfessor

Don’t want to take time off from your very busy life to ensure that the justice system actually works? Well then you can be like Erik Slye, (36) from Montana who was invited to serve on a local jury. Well, Erik is apparently a very busy guy, so he attempted to opt out of it by sending a letter back to the court. It wasn’t the letter itself that got our attention but the content of it:

Apparently you morons didn't understand me the first time. I CANNOT take time off from work. I'm not putting my family's well being at stake to participate in this crap. I don't believe in our "justice" system and I don't want to have a goddamn thing to do with it. Jury duty is a complete waste of time. I would rather count the wrinkles on my dog's balls than sit on a jury. Get it through your thick skulls. Leave me the fuck alone.

Slye's rather caustic affidavit — which he apparently prepared with help from his wife, Jennifer — quite naturally got the attention of the court. As can be expected, the document didn’t sit well with court officials and led a judge to summon Slye to court, and threaten him with jail . Slye apologized for the affidavit and avoided being cited on a criminal failure to appear rap. Oh yeah, he also was excused from serving on a jury.

Only in America.

The Perfessor

If you missed Steven Colbert debating himself last night on his show, you need to watch it now. Seriously, keep watching as the bailout becomes a metaphor for wild sexual abandon — or does sex become a metaphor for wild investing abandon? Who can tell, but it truly hit the sweet spot of my political funnybone.

I don’t know about you, but I need a cigarette.

The Perfessor

Tonight, Comedy Central’s fake news program The Daily Show (followed by The Colbert Report) return to the air after a week off. Prior to the brief vacation, The Daily Show spent two weeks on the road following both the Democratic and Republican conventions. Before we see where they go next, I just wanted to post these clips from The Daily Show’s last couple of days of original episodes before their break.

Then there is this one of McCain’s acceptance speech:

Jon Stewart is so the man!

The Perfessor