Tonight through Friday, August 21: Were you emotional on Monday at the end of Screen on the Green? We understand — it’s just that amazing. BUT FRET NOT. Praise be to Comcast, you can still watch movies outside. The Comcast Outdoor Film Festival begins tonight, and features films that were made in this century, including The Dark Knight, Slumdog Millionaire, and every teenage girl’s favorite, Twilight. Tonight catch the Curious Case of Benjamin Button. The film starts at 8:15PM. [Comcast  Film Festival] MORE »

For the first time since the Great Depression the Secretary of the Interior is making news with a proposal. The Secretary, whose name is… let’s ask Google… Kempthorne, Dirk Kempthorne, “proposed new regulations Wednesday that would allow people to carry a concealed weapon in some national parks and wildlife refuges.” Someone has been stealing Kempthorne’s pic-a-nic baskets recently, and he is Bitter and Clinging To Guns? Or maybe he’s just going through a terrible divorce/lobotomy. MORE »

Since the early 1980s, the federal government has required that gun owners must render their guns inaccessible while in our great nation’s national parks, since some yahoos that are obviously, totally gone by now kept taking potshots at various animals and/or other park users. That being the case, 47 of your United States Senators think it’s about time that the yokels got their bald eagle shooting possibilities back.

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