A new poll has Bush’s approval rating at only 45%, the lowest it has ever been, and while I’m glad that he is becoming less popular, I worry that many people may be blaming him for not being evil enough. Case in point: people are pissed off about high gas prices, and “six in 10 [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Yet another misleading headline from the Associated Press: “Bush Cancels Vacation to Focus on Relief.” What!? He has been on vacation since the beginning of August and was scheduled to return to D.C. on Friday but will instead fly out on Wednesday. Boo-fucking-hoo! Missing two days of a month long vacation hardly constitutes a cancellation. [...]
Waste some time playing this game where you must catch the babies that Michael Jackson drops while avoiding his crappy new records.
Check out this video of a teenage fast food worker getting pepper sprayed by a cop for supposedly not giving her the correct change, which it would seem as though she did. But even if she did rip the cop off, ten dollars is hardly enough money to justify pepper spraying her. This just reaffirms [...]
The FCC, that incredible font of wisdom that found a titty so utterly repulsive, has decided to extend a deadline that could have left thousands of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) users without any phone service. You might wonder why this deadline was imposed in the first place. You see, VoIP can make it difficult [...]
Is it just me, or do A.P. articles have the worst possible headlines? Like this one, for example: “Poll: Many Back Right to Protest Iraq War.” Jesus Christ! I should hope so; if “many” didn’t back the right to protest this country would be steaming up shit creek at Mach-fucking-two. The article sanguinely refers to [...]
So the Iraqi parliament once again has missed the deadline to draft a constitution. This does not bode well for Iraqis or American troops stationed in Iraq. The main problem is that Sunni Arabs are opposed to federalism in the country, which is somewhat understandable given that since Iraq has existed as a nation-state it [...]
The labels used by pro-war conservatives to describe proponents of withdrawl from Iraq are by now familiar: leftist, anti-Semite, traitor. They are repeated ad nausem in the hope that by shifting the discussion from the specific issue of the war to a particular person’s character all criticism of American foreign policy will be deflected. While [...]
The news today is abuzz with leading evangelical minister Pat Robertson’s call for the assasination of Venezualan President Hugo Chavez. Robertson claimed that Chavez is turning Venezuela into “the launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism.” The claim that Venezuela, a 98% Christian country, will be used as a base for Muslim extremism is [...]
Today, the ashes of Hunter S. Thompson, my favorite author, were blasted into the atmosphere, per his request, from this giant cannon: The cannon was intentionally constructed just taller than the Statue of Liberty, standing at 153 feet. The only fitting words are Hunter’s own, from his “Ode to Jack Kerouac.” “Let us hope that [...]
