Ignorant and Free
As some of you have no doubt heard, the only American currently on the list of important modern political thinkers in our standard world history textbooks is about to be cut from it, replaced by a Frenchman no less. This snub is not the work of some America-bashing academics from ...
Cruising For Quayle
When I first began doing comedy after 10 years as a juggling act, I promised myself to have just one rule: don’t pander. If I couldn’t figure out how to make what was funny to me funny to others, I told myself, then I’d move on to the next thing. ...
Texas Observer
My name is Chris Bliss and I am the Executive Director of MyBillofRights.org, the Bill of Rights Monument Project. For the last 20 years I’ve been a stand-up comedian, though I’m probably best known for my “Amazing Juggling Finale” video, which went viral with over 60,000,000 hits a few years back. ...
Facebook Bans the Bill of Rights.
May 15th, 2010Facebook Blocks MyBillofRights.org as “Abusive Content”
Ignorant and Free
May 15th, 2010As some of you have no doubt heard, the only American currently on the list of important modern political thinkers in our standard world history textbooks is about to be cut from it, replaced by a Frenchman no less. This [...]
Cruising For Quayle
May 15th, 2010When I first began doing comedy after 10 years as a juggling act, I promised myself to have just one rule: don’t pander. If I couldn’t figure out how to make what was funny to me funny to others, I [...]
Texas Observer
May 15th, 2010My name is Chris Bliss and I am the Executive Director of MyBillofRights.org, the Bill of Rights Monument Project. For the last 20 years I’ve been a stand-up comedian, though I’m probably best known for my “Amazing Juggling Finale” video, [...]
Offenders of the Faith
May 15th, 2010Comedy Central’s reaction to the threat issued against South Park’s creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone by Revolution Muslim, a website promoting fundamentalist Islam run by a group in New York City, is misguided and [...]
Quality Time
February 22nd, 2010A few years back the Environmental Protection Agency announced a policy change that called for re-pricing the lives of our citizens over seventy at 63% of the value assigned to those under that age when [...]
Falling Down
October 18th, 2009About three weeks ago I got my first mention in the New York Times. The most interesting thing about getting a mention in the Times is how people react to that information. They are either [...]
Abbey Roads
September 12th, 2009By my rough count, I’ve just bought my 18th copy of the Beatles’ Abbey Road album. That includes somewhere between 10-12 vinyl copies before the CD version was released in 1987, plus 4-5 CDs before [...]