Archive for the ‘politics’ Category
Monday, June 19th, 2006
Radiohead's Thom Yorke, king of angst rock, is suitably conflicted about the environment and his own role in destroying it. It turns out you can't be a superstar without a most triumphant concert tour. And any most triumphant concert tour burns tons of fossil fuels. And the ...
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Tuesday, June 6th, 2006
It appears Google may be rethinking its decision to kowtow to China's demands that they censor their search results on www.google.cn. Sergey Brin described China's censorship demands as "a set of rules that we weren't comfortable with." But they did it anyway. Brin said they knew they ...
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Tuesday, May 30th, 2006
As CEI pointed out last week, Al Gore's Carbon Footprint™ is huge. He's flying all over the world in a carbon-fuel-burning jet to tell us all how bad it is to burn carbon fuels. Apparently CEI's criticism hit a nerve; this week he's assuring Brits at the Hay ...
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Monday, April 24th, 2006
I hear hammer blows falling upon our mother tongue: pounding the sharp edges into smooth concensus. But also the smooth round contexts endure the hammers' blows, thinning our words and splitting definitions apart like the peninnsulas that appear in a hamburger which was smashed too flat before it hit ...
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Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
"Your commie has no regard for human life. Not even his own." --Dr Strangelove
There is something about the Texas Academy of Science giving a standing ovation to a man who has just advocated killing 90% of the human population on the earth by means of a contrived Ebola epidemic ...
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Tuesday, March 28th, 2006
Penn's favorite doll is available for $29.99 at K-B Toys
Sean Penn revealed to the New Yorker that when he's really angry he likes to abuse an Ann Coulter doll, and that he's put some cigarette burns in some "funny places" on the doll.
Now if Sean were a teenager, this would ...
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Sunday, March 19th, 2006
France doesn't want to compete in the global economy...no wait they do...well, they sorta do.
Astonishing fact: up til now, French businesses were not allowed to lay off any employee without a Danged Good Reason™. This is a fitting tribute to the nation which gave the world some of the ...
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
The following is a complaint I sent to Google regarding their decision to completely purge thepeoplescube.com from their search results. If you'd like to also voice your complaint, go here.
Dear Google,
I was seeking specific information about a satire website called thepeoplescube.com. Why have you purged it from your ...
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Friday, February 17th, 2006
In the tradition which brought "Freedom Fries" to mom 'n pop diners across America in the wake of 9/11 and France's scurrilous cooing at Sadaam, Arabs are showing their umbrage at the Danes by no longer calling the delicious pastries they so love by their customary name. This comes ...
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Friday, January 20th, 2006
From ABCnews.go.com's story on Bin Laden's latest single, in which he offered the US a truce:
But there was nothing weak about what he had to say.
Later in the same article:
White House spokesman Scott McClellan said it was a sign of weakness.
"We do not negotiate with terrorists," McClellan said. "We ...
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