Tag Archives: comedy

Sen. Rand Paul trounced by Sen. Bernie Sanders, pesky logic

May 12, 2011 – 1:00 pm

In a hearing on the state of the United States’ for-profit, non-competitive, people-killing  healthcare system (which isn’t, by the way, worth a damn), national embarrassment and freshman Republican senator from Kentucky, Rand Paul, clashed with Independent Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont over ideology and, so it would also seem, the basic rules of logical thought. Birefly, [...]

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Insight power-grab heads back to committee

November 19, 2010 – 12:22 pm

After realizing there were dump truck-sized holes in the city’s new franchise agreement with Insight Communications, the Louisville Metro Council voted to send the ordinance, which granted the cable television and Internet provider an unprecedented degree of autonomy, back to the committee that spawned it. In an interview with LEO Weekly, Democratic Caucus spokesman Tony [...]

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What’s your “Big Vote?”

November 16, 2010 – 4:20 pm

A public aqueduct funneling Maker’s Mark throughout the city? An NBA team? A clean Ohio River? Mass public transit? Quality affordable housing? An interactive hologram of Jerry Abramson to illuminate Mayor-elect Greg Fischer’s way forward? Whatever your big vote might be, the Greater Louisville Project wants to know. According to their FAQ: Louisville needs you! [...]

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Taibbi to Paul: “Was MLK a socialist?”

September 2, 2010 – 4:19 pm

Profane liberal smut peddler Joe Sonka has the scoop over at Barefoot & Progressive about Rolling Stone Contributing Editor Matti Taibbi’s encounter with Kentucky GOP Senate candidate Rand Paul. The story I hear is that Matt introduced himself to Rand at a northern KY event as a writer for Rolling Stone. Paul said that he [...]

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79-Percent of Americans Reject Dumb Reagan $50 Bill Idea

April 27, 2010 – 3:14 pm

Since most of LEO’s readership is either (1) too young or (2) too high to remember America’s 40th president, the news that a Republican congressman wants to put The Gipper’s deflated, astrology-and-jellybeans-filled head on the $50 bill might not mean much to you, since young’ish stoners rarely come across any bill higher than a twenty [...]

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Downtown Arena Named After Fattie-Factory

April 19, 2010 – 1:40 pm

It’s official, folks: The new home of the University of Louisville’s men’s NCAA basketball team shall now be known, henceforth, as the KFC Yum! Arena. Why? Because $13.5 million can get your name just about anywhere these days. Via The C-J: Yum! Brands, which once said it wasn’t interested in the naming rights, has agreed [...]

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9 JCPS Students Get High On Own Supply

March 12, 2010 – 2:17 pm

And you’d think their business ethics teacher would have at least rewarded them for doing what Tony Montana could not — No, but seriously, (1) there’s not enough money in the system to employ a middle school business ethics teacher, and (2) some local kids got busted for pot and the sky is fall-fall-falling. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S02BQEzwc6s[/youtube] [...]

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“Fun” with Kentucky’s CPAC

February 18, 2010 – 3:55 pm

That’s “conservative political action committee” for those of you whom have better things to do with your time… Earlier today, LEO received a candidate questionnaire drafted by the Freedom Heritages Forum, a group that exists because (1) Hell is very very real, and (2) someone has to undertake the thankless dirty-work necessary for placing conservative [...]

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Looking Back… To The Future!

February 16, 2010 – 1:15 pm

Few things are better than sweeps season. During this special time, the programming created by our local television news teams is at once magical, fascinating and largely idiotic. Ever the trend-breaker, WHAS11 offered this thought-provoking segment: Louisville, Ky. (WHAS11) – The weather forecast is hard enough to predict so imagine trying to predict the future. [...]

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Louisville Too Good For Crippled Chicken Statue?

February 8, 2010 – 2:15 pm

As a practicing omnivore, the rhetoric of PETA can be a little acerbic at times. I think a happy chicken is the tastiest kind of chicken despite how I’d be labeled as a murdering fascist. However, PETA’s proposal to erect a 5 1/2 foot-tall statue of a bloodied, crippled chicken in downtown Louisville makes more [...]

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