Tony Kornheiser Suspended Without Karma

February 24, 2010 by Phil Maggitti ·
Filed under: Television 

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Karma score: 71/100

ESPN’s Tony Kornheiser has a face made for radio and a voice made for a grumpy old man who lives to chase children off his lawn after refusing to return their soccer ball. He’s also got one foot planted firmly in the past and the other planted firmly in his mouth. As for his head, you can form your own opinion. Read more

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Bill Maher Kicks His Karma to the Curb

February 14, 2010 by Logan Catchpole ·
Filed under: Television 

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Karma score: 59/100

When I saw Bill Maher perform in Philadelphia seventeen months ago, he did a riff about “most women” being ‘hos who would sooner felate Colonel Sanders than work in one of his restaurants. Last night on his latest HBO comedy “event” But I’m Not Wrong, Maher told the same joke. Unfortunately he also retold many of the jokes he had been telling before he went on hiatus from his HBO series Real Time with Bill Maher several months ago, allegedly to recharge his comedic batteries. Read more

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Stewart, O’Reilly Make Nice in Karmic Draw

February 4, 2010 by Logan Catchpole ·
Filed under: Television 

The smack down between The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart and The O’Reilly Factor’s Bill O’Reilly on Fox last night looked more like two fighters posturing at a weigh in than two sworn enemies trying to rip each others’ testicles off in a cage match. If you were hoping for the reality-show abandon of a bum fight—or even a shouting match of the type seen every day on ESPN’s Around the Horn—you were probably reaching for the remote halfway through Stewart-O’Reilly IV. Read more

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  • Today in Karma History

    03/17/461
    Saint Patrick, Christian missionary, bishop, and apostle of Ireland, died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland. Born in Great Britain, most likely in Scotland, Patrick was part of a well-to-do Christian family of Roman citizenship. At the age of sixteen he was captured and enslaved by Irish marauders.

    Patrick worked as a herder in Ireland for the next six years. During that time he depended on a deepening religious faith for comfort. Following the counsel of a voice he heard in a dream one night, Patrick escaped and found passage on a ship to Britain, where he was eventually reunited with his family.

    Some time later Patrick had another dream. This time an individual named Victoricus gave him a letter, entitled "The Voice of the Irish." As he read the letter, Patrick heard the voices of Irishmen pleading him to return to their country and to walk among them once more.

    After studying for the priesthood, Patrick was ordained a bishop. He returned to Ireland in 433 and began preaching the gospel, converting thousands people, and building churches around the country. After forty years of living in poverty, teaching, traveling, and working tirelessly, Patrick died on March 17, 461, in Saul, where he had built his first church.

    Much of what is known about Patrick's legendary life comes from the Confessio, a book he wrote during his last years.

  • Shortcuts to Killer Karma

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