h/t Larry. Open Thread below...

from Hitchcock's Notorious (1946). Filmsite.org notes:

The film is known for having at the time of its production 'the longest kiss in film history.' [Director Alfred Hitchcock circumvented the Hollywood code limiting a kiss to three seconds by interrupting the kiss every three seconds, but they never once break their embrace.]

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From the incomparable Betty Bowers:

Meet Tonya Jenkins. She died of shock this morning. You see, the poor thing had spent the past two years getting all of her information from Sean Hannity. She would then go to her favorite website, Free Republic, and read thousands and thousands and thousands of vitriolic posts, all containing no facts inconsistent with Mr. Hannity’s and no opinions that caused Tonya to rethink her own.

Tonya went to bed last night with a tumbler of cold tequila and a head full of comfy knowledge. She knew that the Lord Jesus would answer her prayer to never let no colored Muslim communist terrorist be no durn president. She was certain she would wake up to find that sassy Sarah Palin and her running mate, a wonderfully mavericky war hero, had been elected instead. In her Christian heart, Tonya was confident that Americans were every bit as racist as Republicans hoped they’d turn out to be, as the much discussed, posted about and wished for “Bradley Effect” would work its reactionary magic at the polls. Read on...

From Preston Sturges's Sullivan's Travels (1941). Open Thread below...

The infamous Turkeys Away segment from WKRP in Cincinnati. Open thread below.

Another video for Buy Nothing Day, from last year. Open thread below...

It's been a heckuva year both politically in the US, and here at Crooks and Liars. It takes a staff of very dedicated people to put this blog together. I'm grateful for all of them and for each and every reader who takes to time to visit our little corner of the internet.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We had quite a discussion among the C&L staff about this yesterday. Some said it's egalitarian to refer to the President of the United States by his first name. I disagree, and though I did call George Bush a few names in the past eight years, I didn't call him George or even, very often, Dubya. How do you feel about the whole "Barack" thing? President-Elect Obama's team uses it in outgoing email.

And this is an open thread, too.

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This Day in Peace History: On this day in 1859, "British naturalist Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, which explained his theory of evolution. The basis for the theory is natural selection, the process by which organisms change over time as a result of changes in heritable (genetically based) physical or behavioral traits.
Such changes allow an organism to better adapt to its environment and help it survive and have more offspring.

Evolution is now universally accepted among scientists, and is the organizing principle upon which modern biological and related sciences are based."

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From Pundit Kitchen. And I can't wait to see the lolcats that come from this one. Open thread below....

A jingle we're not likely to see, from the fabulous Paul and Storm. And yes, they're the guys who also came up with that "pay-per-view nun fight" song.

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Apropos of nothing. I just wanted to show you one of the orca slide/sound shows I made this summer. (YouTube here.)

Isn't it kinda nice to take a bit of a deep breath and relax a bit, now that the election hubbub is finally winding down?

The classic trailer from "What Would Jesus Buy?" (2007). Buy Nothing Day this year is November 28. Open Thread below....

h/t Heather for turning me on to Comedy Central's Chocolate News. Here's some gold from before the election. Open Thread below...