Our Tribute To Kennedy Center Honors Recipients Continues with a Look Back at Cobra, Arguably the Greatest Movie Ever Made

Cobra, Sylvester Stallone's crazed Reaganite fever dream of ultimate power and vengeance is insane, and also kind of great.

CannontoberNathan RabinAugust 14, 2025Sylvester Stallone

I'm Rerunning a Piece on Over the Top Because It Single-Handedly Made Sylvester Stallone a Kennedy Center Honors Recipient

Sylvester Stallone and Menahem Golan made an inspirational truck-driving arm-wrestling drama. It was quite poor.

CannontoberNathan RabinAugust 13, 2025Sylvester Stallone, Over the Top, Cannon, Menahem Golan

The Notorious Paul Lynde Halloween Special Featured Prestigious Kennedy Center Honors Recipient Kiss at their Most Dignified!

Oh dear. Where to begin?

This Looks TerribleNathan RabinAugust 13, 2025Paul Lynde, Kiss, Gene Simmons

In Honor of Kiss Being a Kennedy Center Honors Recipient I'm Rerunning This Piece on Peter Criss Confronting His Imposter on Donahue

The first installment in a series on great moments in Western Civilization kicks off with a look back at the Donahue episode where former Kiss drummer Peter Criss confronted a homeless alcoholic who had been impersonating him and ruining his good name. Then things really get strange.

Great Moments W.CNathan RabinAugust 13, 2025Kiss, Phil Donahue

1984's Rhinestone Proved That Kennedy Center Honors Recipient Sylvester Stallone Was Equally Inept as a Comic Actor and Power-Mad Screenwriter

One of you kind souls paid me to suffer through the painful Sylvester Stallone-goes-country musical comedy Rhinestone, a flop that continues to suck.

The Cynical Reason That MAGA Insists Our Elementary Schools Are Full of Furries Demanding to Use Litter Boxes in Class

Our schools are not full of pint-sized furries who identify as cats insisting on litter boxes and scratch posts in classrooms, but Republicans are pretending that there are for very cynical reasons.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinAugust 12, 2025

Why Does This Always Happen to Me?

Some days, you just can’t win.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinAugust 7, 2025

President Trump Attacked His Cultists as Stupid, Gullible Weaklings Whose Support He Doesn't Want if They Care About Jeffrey Epstein. It Will Not Hurt Him in the Least

President Trump recently took a break from insulting his opponents to spit vitriol at cultists concerned about a Jeffrey Epstein scandal he encouraged them to care about when he thought it’d only hurt Democrats. It won’t hurt him at all.

The Big WhoopNathan RabinAugust 6, 2025

The Random Rerun of the Day is the Coffee Table Book A Camel Called Joe, Which Celebrates Camel's Success in Selling Cancer Sticks to Kids

Our exploration of the worst and weirdest literature has to offer explores a 1998 coffee table book devoted to Joe Camel, the lovable humanoid camel with a penis-shaped face who very successfully sold cigarettes to small children.

Literature SocietyNathan RabinAugust 5, 2025Joe Camel, Advertising, selling cigarettes to children

Bret Ratner's Hacky Adaptation of Thomas Harris' Red Dragon Just Makes Michael Mann's Adaptation of the Same Novel Seem Even Better

Bret Ratner brought Donald Trump’s favorite cannibal to the big screen—again—in Red Dragon, a woeful adaptation of the novel that introduced Hannibal Lecter and inspired the infinitely better 1986 cult classic Manhunter