The man was right about a few things.

(Video via Jason Calacanis. Thank you!)

I used to think it was a bad thing that prescription drug manufacturers are allowed to market directly to people that don't have the legal authority to decide which prescription drugs - if any - to buy.

Not anymore:

Thank you, John Gordon. And thank YOU, Bristol Myers Squibb, creators of Luftal.

Why do I remember these pigeons as having French accents?

Nissan - Pigeons - 1997

Though I have to say I do think it's about those things. And I'm pretty sure the real-life Bono agrees.

Was that Gandhi?

Here's the ad that started the conversation.

Here's Stephen Colbert's response:

Here, apparently, is the follow up, from Maggie Gallagher, President of the National Organization for Marriage, the original admakers.  I found it in a Huffington Post article, uncited...

I've always thought Stephen Colbert was a double-agent, pretending to pretend to be a conservative, to pull one over Hollywood. Now I'm sure.

And here's another, less surprising reaction to Colbert's video...

I get struck by gay lightning all the time.

One of the filmmakers explained this project to me a few weeks ago.  Sounded like part Monty Python and the Holy Grail, part Don Quixote, part This Is Spinal Tap, and part The Stupids Step Out. 

Note the exclamation point in the title.  Classy.

I don't truly love the NBA until the playoffs start, but I love the players I love year round.

Chauncey Billups, Steve Nash, and Ray Allen have been favorites for a while.  Shaq has always made me laugh, but he'll soon retire and graduate to my Hall of Fame Team.*  Kevin Garnett won me over last year.  And LeBron James just impressed me once again...

Don't pump fake me now.

Thanks to TNC for the recommendation.

*Charles Barkley, Dennis Rodman, John Starks, Danny Ainge, Hakeem Olajuwon, Vlade Divac, Muggsy Bogues, John Salley, and probably a few more that I can't remember right now.  Unusual group, I realize.  Funny the athletes that attract you as a little kid.