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Today is the 88th day of 2022. There are 277 days left in the year.

In the spirit of the Monty Python crew in Life of Brian, I find that President Biden suffers from incontinens lingua. The Wall Street Journals Gerard Baker refers to it in his column today as verbal incontinence. At his press conference yesterday -- the White House has posted the transcript here, John has posted the video here -- Biden walked right back from the walkbacks performed on his behalf during

Northern Stage expanding workforce housing on Gates Street

GUNPOWDER, treason, plot - and lashings of comedy.

If you’ve missed popular morning radio host Charles David “Stoney” Richards since he left his “Y’d Awake” morning show on WDSY-FM (Y-108), you’re in luck. You can catch Richards in the hilarious “The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” opening at Pittsburgh’s Threadbare Cider House on Wednesday evening. It’s being

With the Oscars upon us this weekend it seems an apt time to recall choice lines from past films.

Steve has put up one of the very funny and philosophically acute scenes from Monty Pythons Life of Brian in the adjacent post. The funniest scene of the many funny scenes in the film takes on tyranny and laughter (and a few other issues related to human nature, as in the scene Steve highlights). Anybody else feel like a little giggle? I have taken the liberty of embedding it below.

There are a few characters within Christian culture that everyone knows about. Biblical characters first, VeggieTales characters second. The colorful cast

When Monty Pythons Life of Brian came out in 1979, the film was controversial among many religious conservatives who thought the film blasphemous for its implied attack on Jesus and Christianity, and although there is a certain mockery of religion in the movie, it is subordinate to the stronger satire of a certain kind of familiar extremism and utopianism (What have the Romans ever done for us? Brought peace?) I

Tom Von Malder of Owls Head has reviewed music since 1972, just after graduation from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. He has reviewed videos/DVDs since 1988.