Comic for Tuesday, March 29th

Posted: 8:55 am, Tuesday, March 29th, 2005

I didn't see much of the basketball over the weekend, just Louisville's comeback over the Toothless Wonders of West Virginia and the two OTs of the MSU-Kentucky game. MSU's Chris Hill is mesmerizing, not so much for his play but for his appearance. At first, I thought he looked like the illegitimate son of Kentucky's coach, Tubby Smith. Then I read a column somewhere that said he looked like Pete Sampras. For my part, he looks like my old roommate Sto. Since no one knows what Sto looks like and I don't have a picture, we'll go with Pete Sampras.

Probably the best thing I found on the interweb yesterday was Ruthless Reviews, a site dedicated to cataloguing the body count, political messages, and homoeroticism of Reagan-era films. The Reagan Years, looking back, were quite violent, and extremely gay. My favorite reviews are of the Death Wish series, but I remember as a child actually liking Iron Eagle when I saw it, and then a week later, thinking it was utter crap. I think that's the first time I ever thought that about a movie with things exploding it in. My buddy Starky of the dry wedding made me watch Heartbreak Ridge once when we were in collitch (and a week or two before he shipped off to boot camp for the summer). In honestly was one of the worst movies I've ever seen. When the big conflict in your movie is Grenada, don't make the movie. By the way, I read this somewhere over the weekend and this is as good a time as any to mention it - do you realize that Predator starred two future governors?

(Actually, that site reviews all sorts of crap, evidently, and looks good for plenty of time-killing.)

These are trying times, no doubt, but one of the groups that sends me action e-mails all the time is keeping its spirits relatively high. Check out this from American Family Voices:

Senate Majority Leader, and doctor, Bill Frist (R-TN) has the uncanny ability to diagnose patients by simply looking at a picture or a video. Some folks are concerned that he committed a bio-ethical violation, but we say, think of the opportunity!

Take a digital picture or video of your medical problem – tennis elbow, acne, runny nose, hemorrhoids, or whatever ails you – and send it to the doctor in charge of the US Senate and your health care.

Tell Dr. Frist you want him to diagnose it and get Congress to pass a law prescribing treatment.

Send us pictures or videos of your ailments and we'd be happy to pass along to the doctor himself. Please email us, or mail them to us at Diagnose Me Dr. Frist! 888 16th Street, NW Suite 303, Washington, DC  20006. 

Please visit our web page to sign our petition and diagnose Dr. Frist for yourself as grossly incompetent and downright unethical!  Don't you have friends with ailments of their own: coughing, stuffy head or fever?  Perhaps they live in a red state which just about guarantees no wait time for you in Dr. Frist's office.  Let them know that the good doctor can diagnose, maybe even cure them too. 

I thought that was vaguely amusing. Anyway - excelsior.

bullfrog