I was fascinated (and pleased) to discover today that Clint Howard– the goofy-looking bit actor who pops up in big brother Ron’s movies– is an out-and-out conservative.

Howard described himself as a “conservative minded citizen” in an interview with the Daily Caller:

“I understand that show business people can wear the public a bit thin when it comes to politics. I know they wear me thin,” Howard said. “I’m not a policy wonk and I don’t dream of being a political operative. My goal as a citizen is to do what I can to help the causes that I personally believe in. To me, it is the same as walking the precinct.”

Of course, it is no mystery that Ron Howard carries water for the Democrats and merrily proselytized the Hopenchange mythos.

So why is Clint (b. 1959) a conservative and Ron (b. 1954) a liberal? For me, this photo from the Daily Caller article says it all:

See also: constrained vision, unconstrained vision

One of these men looks sunny, self-satisfied and a little credulous. One of them looks like Clint Howard.

I’ve heard a lot of crowing recently about the Chevy Volt only getting 40 miles of all-electric driving. If you are one of the critics, please take a look at the map below and see for yourself how perfectly reasonable 40 miles is (click to enlarge)–

UPDATE: Thanks for the link, Unreligious Right! Also, Atomic Fungus and In My Copious Free Time.

HornBearDog Strikes Again!

The National Enquirer reports that two additional message therapists claim they were abused by Al Gore. The following incident allegedly took place at a Beverly Hills hotel when Al Gore was in town for the Oscars–

“The therapist claimed that when they were alone, Gore shrugged off a towel and stood naked in front of her.

“He pointed at his erect penis and ordered her, ‘Take care of THIS.’“

CUPERTINO, CA – Apple Inc. announced today that the next update to the iPhone operating system (iOS) will correct bugs that have overstated signal reception, slowed processing speeds and permitted sociopathic celebrity Mel Gibson to place phone calls to other human beings.

The flaw in the existing version of the iOS has mistakenly allowed Mel Gibson to place phone calls which are not only horrifyingly insane to the person who answers them, but irrecoverably devastating to the professional reputation of Mel Gibson.

Larry King has announced he’s leaving the CNN show he’s been hosting since 1985, when he was only 114 years old.

Anybody who has experienced the joy of watching Larry King’s exhaustively researched and deeply perceptive interviews– epitomized by the clip below– knows he’s leaving some big shoes to fill. Fortunately, Joy Behar’s corpulent feet should fill them quite nicely.

We’ve already heard from the Oscar winners– Kevin Costner, James Cameron, Robert Redford… Hell, we’ve even heard from a Grammy Award winner– it’s time for some of Broadway’s finest to chime in!

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Law enforcement? They won't go for that.

(PHOENIX) – The Arizona Diamondbacks announced today that Daryl Hall and John Oates canceled their post-game concert at Chase Field that was to take place following the D-backs game against the Los Angeles Dodgers on July 2 because of their personal stance against Arizona’s new immigration law.

Daryl Hall and John Oates issued the following statement:

“In addition to our personal convictions, we are standing in solidarity with the music community in our boycott of performing in Arizona at this time.”

Thanks, Hall and Oates, but what I really want to know is– how does A-Ha feel about BP’s response to the oil spill?

Via Hot Air.

He’d probably be named Worst Writer in America, too, if anybody read the New York Times.

U2 singer Bono’s investments into Elevation Partners, which has offices in New York and Menlo Park, have helped make him the “worst investor investor [sic] in America,” according to the online publication 24/7 Wall Street.

With large investments in Palm, Forbes, and Move.com — “an unprecedented string of disastrous investments which even bad luck could not explain” — Elevation Partners has earned the distinction of being “arguably the worst run institutional fund of any size in the United States,” 24/7 Wall Street asserts.

Via Big Hollywood.