And so the last of the Kennedy brothers is laid to rest. The final chapter in a long saga that played itself out over the course of the middle and late 20th century has reached its inevitable denouement. Were Shakespeare alive today, we would likely have a play about each of them, [...]
Archive for August, 2009
The End of an Era
Posted in Uncategorized on August 30, 2009 | Comments Off
Forward Into the Past
Posted in Uncategorized on August 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Robert Zemeckis, director of such films as the Back to the Future series, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Forrest Gump, a film that did for the mentally disabled what The Producers did for the Nazis, has joined forces with that other evil reich, Disney, to collaborate on an “updated” version of The Beatles animated psychedelic [...]
No More Marriage As Usual
Posted in Uncategorized on August 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
OMT Palinwatch
In breaking news, we have learned that Sarah and Todd Palin are to be divorced. In an OMT exclusive, here is Sarah’s marriage resignation speech, in full.
Hi Alaska, I appreciate speaking directly to you, the people I serve, or used to serve, when I was your Governor.
People who know me know that besides [...]
Bankruptcy is the Best Medicine
Posted in Uncategorized on August 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reader’s Digest has announced today that it will file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
Out of respect for this iconic magazine, here at OMT we are presenting you with this abridged version of the piece we would otherwise have written today.
We will save the longer, unabridged version for our upcoming book, One Man’s Tofu: Dark [...]
England in 2024
Posted in Uncategorized on August 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Lynndie England, the trailer-park trash solider whose antics at Abu Ghraib shocked most American’s sensibilities to their foundations back in 2003 when the infamous photographs of torture and abuse at the hands of Americans first started making international rounds, has kept a low profile since her court marshal and the serving of her prison term. [...]
We Can’t Wait for the Movie
Posted in Uncategorized on August 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dick Cheney crawled out of his sty the other day to announce that he’s got a memoir in the works (presumably to be titled, Tales From the Dark Side: How Coming Within an Eyelash of Converting America Into an Authoritarian, Totalitarian, Fascist State in Which Liberals Would Be Put Before Death Panels and Asked How [...]
Lions and Tigers and Cassowarys … Oh My
Posted in Uncategorized on August 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Carol Kaesuk Yoon wrote a great piece in the New York Times yesterday about the decline of taxonomy, and why that should be important to all of us.
In a world which we are at once destroying and from which we are becoming increasingly disconnected, Yoon’s essay is a valuable reminder that as mankind rushes headlong [...]
It’s August … It’s Hot …
Posted in Uncategorized on August 10, 2009 | 1 Comment »
And now that summer has apparently moved in full force with it’s attendant heat and humidity, we don’t much feel like doing anything, which is something that we hope our readers will be able to relate to.
So, we’re going to slack off today, and maybe even tomorrow, too.
Because it’s August … it’s hot …
Just a Quick Note
Posted in Uncategorized on August 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Because the rain that’s been predicted for the past couple of days has failed to materialize, we need to get out and water the garden and the beds before we go to work today, so we’re a little pressed for time.
So this morning, we’re going to let our news partners over at the BBC fill [...]
Dear John
Posted in Uncategorized on August 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s nomination for the Supreme Court goes before the full Senate for a vote today, with Democrats confident of her confirmation, in spite of the fact that most Republicans oppose her because of her now infamous “wise Latina” crack, and how this somehow makes her a “racist”.
We touched on that topic yesterday, of [...]
