Category Archives: Popular Culture

Kobe Bryant

I’m not a basketball fan, so while it’s a very sad for his family, I’m having trouble getting worked up about it. But judging by what I was hearing on talk radio while running errands, LA is gutted.

Sounds like it was controlled flight into terrain in IFR conditions. It’s been a cloudy/foggy day. That area has a lot of steep hillsides that can come up at you quickly if visibility is bad. Apparently he’d been using choppers for commuting for years, and it finally caught up with him.

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Here‘s the latest from PJMedia.

Guy in Home Depot told me he’d heard that all of his daughters were aboard, but fortunately, only one was. He left a wife and four others.

Ricky Gervais

I don’t watch awards ceremonies, but apparently he handed woke Hollywood its ass last night.

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More from Steve Kruiser, with video.

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Boo, hoo. Lorraine Ali is all butthurt.

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More from Kyle Smith. And Emily Jashinski.

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Hollywood proved Gervais’s point.

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Related, I think: What happened to Howard Stern? If you want to skip the long history, jump to the end, which relates his recent interview with Hillary.

[Tuesday-morning update]

To hell with these gilded charlatans.

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[Update a while later]

The “liberal” reviews are in for Gervais’s performance, and their tears are delicious.