Author: Richard Metzger Archives: 08/2012

As if it wasn’t already patently obvious to everyone paying even the slightest bit of attention, last night at the Republican National Convention, 82-year-old actor…

When Matt Groening hired Danny Elfman to write the theme for The Simpsons, he gave him a mixed tape of songs that he wanted the…

Someone was kind enough to post an HD file of “Desinto,” the animated short that Surrealist painter Salvador Dali and Walt Disney collaborated on for…

A blast from the past: Last June some amusing footage made the rounds of a young Catholic activist giving a hard time to Republican Congressman…

Famed Libertarian economist and activist Murray Rothbard wrote the scathing one-act play “Mozart Was A Red” in the early 1960s satirizing Ayn Rand and her…

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The Gun Owners of America political action group has posted a curious “meme” on their Facebook wall, quoting Beat author, homosexual and notable heroin addict,…

In this fantastic excerpt from the legendary Dutch TV documentary about old school hip hop, Big Fun In The Big Town, a young Grandmaster Flash…

Via Cracked: “The birth of every single asshole in America in a single conversation.” I thought this was funny—and pretty profound—but the woman playing Ayn…

*There are, of course, exceptions to this. I would be remiss in not mentioning that my very own parents, who are super religious, do in…