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...going to be a very sleek look." Abraham is down on Sodom, as you can imagine, but that's where Zed and Oh are bound (there's a subplot revolving around rescuing the women they love from slavery). They meet up - again - with Cain (he's a running joke, but in Cross's cheerfully detestable hands, a bad one), who leads them on a tour of the city. "You know what's the best part about Sodom?" Cain says. "The sodomy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Year One: Jokes from the Stone Age | 6/18/2009 | See Source »

...Ramis and co-writer Gene Stupnitsky clearly think the best thing about setting a movie in Sodom is the opportunity for jokes about sodomy. They trot out bananas being eaten seductively by prostitutes, a horny high priest (played to the hilt by Oliver Platt, in more eye makeup than Liza Minnelli) who has his eye on Oh and even a sheep joke. Vulgarity can be a dazzlingly pleasurable thing in comedy. But there's something very sad about Year One's vulgarity. It's desperate. The movie is one long snigger. Cera is the only aspect of it that doesn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Year One: Jokes from the Stone Age | 6/18/2009 | See Source »

...This is a joke," said Arizona Senator John McCain. "This is the most incredible markup I've been to in my years in the Senate and in Congress. I suggest we not move forward until we have some provision on how we're going to pay for it." New Hampshire Republican Judd Gregg added that he didn't know who had written what he had seen of the bill, "but if it had been Rube Goldberg, Ira Magaziner [the architect of the failed 1994 Clinton health-care plan] and Karl Marx, you might have gotten this product...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Health-Care Reality Check Slows Congress | 6/18/2009 | See Source »

After that boom came to a crashing end in 1929 and the market continued to implode in 1930, '31 and '32, this theoretical underpinning at first seemed to have been demolished. The idea that stocks could be good investments became a joke and remained that--in the popular view, at least--for decades. Yet whenever anyone in later years re-examined the data on stocks' long-run performance--major scholarly studies on the topic were published in 1938, '53, '64 and '76--they reached the same conclusion Smith did. Even with the dire experience of the early 1930s factored...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Stocks Still Good for the Long Run? | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

...MushroomheadEd RT @dlayphoto: RT @NJDemocrat: Foreign press ban? Not in the age of twttr. That's so 20th century #iranelection & they said twttr was a joke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latest Tweets on Fallout from Iran's Election | 6/15/2009 | See Source »

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