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Al Walentis

For more than four years, Al Walentis wrote the best-read blog on the Reading Eagle Web site. Now independently published and more awesome than ever, Al's new blog continues in the tradition of providing zesty commentary on politics, pop culture and all the crazy stuff going on in the Greater Reading area.

Monday
08Feb2010

Sarah Paln's r*tarded logic

Allow our next president to make things abundantly clear:

CHRIS WALLACE (host): OK, but, Rush Limbaugh weighed in this week, and he said this: "Our politically correct society is acting like some giant insult's taken place by calling a bunch of people who are retards, retards."

SARAH PALIN: He was satirical in that --

WALLACE: Wait, let me finish. "I mean, these people, these liberal activists are kooks." Should Rush Limbaugh apologize?

PALIN: They are kooks, so I agree with Rush Limbaugh. Rush Limbaugh was using satire to bring attention to what this politically correct --

WALLACE: But he used the "R" word

PALIN: Using satire. Name-calling by anyone -- I teach this to my children. You teach this to your children and your grandchildren, too. Name-calling by anyone, it's just unnecessary. It just wastes time. Let's speak to the issues and again, let's move on.

WALLACE: But you know what some people are going to say, Governor, and have said. They say, look, when it's their political adversary, Rahm Emanuel, she's going to call him out -- he's indecent, apologize. But when it's a political friend like Rush Limbaugh, oh, it's satire.

PALIN: I didn't hear Rush Limbaugh call a group of people whom he did not agree with "f-ing retards," and we did know that Rahm Emanuel, it's been reported, did say that. There's a big difference there.

Monday
08Feb2010

NEWS FLASH!!! Jack Nicholson thinks in metres.

Jack plans to go out in style:

Jack Nicholson is considering being picked to death by vultures when he dies.

The 72-year-old actor has become fascinated with the traditional sky burials carried out by some Native Americans which involve the deceased's body being hung from a tree or wooden scaffold and being left for scavengers.

He told German TV channel Tele 5: "I've had several ideas. Once I thought it would be nice to be buried under a large statue that is at least ten metres high. Then I liked the nature of the Indians who haul their bodies up into the trees so that they are eaten by the birds."

Although Nicholson is undecided about the fate of his remains, one thing he is certain about is he does not want to be laid to rest in a coffin.

He said: "I will probably end up in a crematorium as I'm too claustrophobic for a coffin."

 

Monday
08Feb2010

Hot tip! Invest in toilet paper futures.

It's going to snow again. Tomorrow. This is so winter-like.

Monday
08Feb2010

I hope Jason Brudereck knocks off sick today

He works at the Reading Eagle and had to go in Saturday when the weather was really nasty. He has a Page One story today about absenteeism the day after the Super Bowl, which means he worked yesterday, unless the story was "in the can," as they say. He's probabaly scheduled for Wednesday, too, when another 30 to 40 inches will fall upon us. So take today off, buddy. I bet Dan Kelly will.

Saturday
06Feb2010

Snow...up his nose?

Saturday
06Feb2010

Give 'em hell, Harry

Someone once asked Harry Truman what the post office motto ("Neither rain, nor snow, nor gloom of night...") means. He said, "It means they deliver mail in the wintertime."

Now my wife tells me they won't deliver mail today. This after I dug out my SUV at 6 a.m. to drive her to work. I guess the buck stops with the Mount Penn postmaster.

I suppose I'll get my Reading Eagle delivered on Monday, too, although, believe me, that's far less crucial than my Netflix.

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Saturday
06Feb2010

Weekend open thread

Anybody get any snow out there?