I Served Serial Joe a Slushie

Reading that book about Zero she talked about on her blog, M found some startling evidence: apparently Newton often wanted to kill his mother and step-father. Now, if I can only establish that his mother and/or step-father was a prostitute, I'll be like half-way there to my (crackpot) theory! Take that Newton!!

I really like Jon Stewart. He's quite intelligent, and that comes across numerous times in his show, most often in his hi-larious lampooning of American politicians. Watching his Indecision 2004 has been great stuff. One thing that's bugging me about him, though, is his insistence that "I'm only a comedian, so I shouldn't be expected to ask any tough questions of people I interview". It first came up in that infamous discussion with M's favourite conservative, Tupper whats-his-name. Basically, Stewart humiliated the poor guy, but Tupper did get in one good point: when interviewing John Kerry, Stewart's toughest question was "so how are you doing?". Stewart's reply was pretty weak: his claim was that since he's a comedian, he doesn't have any responsibility to ask any tough questions. So he gets to ridicule reporters who don't ask any tough questions, while at the same time refusing to do so himself. Hardly seems fair. More so because he can't claim his show is "just comedy" when he often insists on making serious (valid) points about the content of speeches that politicians make. I think even Stewart himself knows he's being a bit fraudulent here. At one point during the Republican National Convention coverage, one of his guests asks Stewart "have you ever asked Kerry a serious question"? The guest meant it rhetorically, but Stewart took it as a slight against him, again protesting his innocence with the "only comedy" line. Methinks he doth protest too much.