…that were revealed to me over my vacation. Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh are the Right’s Michael Moore and Cindy Sheehan, although Republicans are totally and utterly blind to this fact. No matter if you’re a Democrat or a Republican, you can never, ever defend a racist who still believes that we need segregated school buses. White men can’t jump and Little Limbaughs can’t count . – photo credit .

It’s a good thing Rush dumped 100 pounds on that three-month Florida quick weight loss diet.  The bombastic broadcaster slides his bod into a Ford Focus hybrid on Jay Leno tonight and tries to dodge a cardboard Al Gore on Leno’s Green Car Challenge track .   Top Speed’s Kirby Garlitos can’t wait :  It sure will be a treat to watch the man who once said about hybrids – “Nobody’s buying them! Nobody wants them! The manufacturers are making them in droves to satisfy Obama!” – drive a Ford Focus BEV.

This morning I received my regular conservative propaganda email from a relative to remain nameless.  I usually delete it with the knowledge that Obama does not wear a mustache fashioned after Hitler’s, nor does he intend to replace “God” in the Pledge of Allegiance with “Allah.”  But a person can only take so much.  Today’s email – per usual – was a forward from somebody I’ve never met, and it began: “I had to share this.  It’s starting.

Geek Squad and Best Buy are now offering the invaluable service of plugging in two cables for the low, low price of $129. No, that’s $129 USD, not 129 Mexican pesos. Not even the pitch-master Billy Mays combined with the spin power of Rush “El Rushbo” Limbaugh could get any sane consumer to buy this service. That is, unless you are above 70 years of age and all “vidja-games” are still called “Atari.” Although the in-store ad specified the PlayStation 3 as the console being set-up, we imagine Best Buy and Geek Squad would be happy to take your $129 to set up an Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3 as well.This dear readers, is a ripoff.

By Smia Oots, Brooklyn, WILLIAMSBURG – Four-eyed sneering running-shoe-wearing tattoo-show-offing white-skin-cladding Williamsburg hipsters have bitten onto to something and they just can’t let go! Irony apparel is a smash hit in Williamsburg. On my way out of the metro I bumped into 39-year-old Cassius Tam, who writes for Vice Magazine, Brooklyn’s foremost arbiter of taste. He was wearing a Bush-Cheney 2004 t-shirt. Surely you don’t mean..? “Oh no no old chap, I was being ironic when I bought this,” Mr Tam explained, fingering said shirt.

Howdy! If you are new here, you might want to subscribe to the RSS feed for all of our latest crap.Used to be it was pretty rare to find products in movies. But then product placement became a lucrative business and things changed. Still, there are some great uses of fictional brands these days in films. Some of it is creative. But the larger reason is that it’s simply easier from a legal standpoint to make something up than to clear the rights for some product.  Here are some of the more memorable examples from movies in recent years (sorry, no television products Simpsons fans.