Randy “Duke” Cunningham, an eight term Republican Congressman from the fiftieth California district, pleaded guilty today to accepting bribes from a defense contractor in exchange for throwing multi-million dollar contracts their way. While I’m glad Cunningham has been publicly humiliated, I doubt he will receive the proper punishment for his crimes. I’m also certain that [...]
Archive for November, 2011
So I was at this show last night, and there was some dude with a hilarious mullet dancing like a jackass. While watching him dance badly I wondered to myself why people grow mullets in the first place. Think about it: the haircut is nigh universally reviled. Have you ever seen a movie or television [...]
Here is a pretty cool series of animated graphs that show economic and health development trends across the world for the last thirty-five years. Yeah, it’s pretty nerdy, but I’m sure some people will find it informative. Via Catallarchy.
A British document has been leaked alleging that George Bush wanted to bomb Al-Jazeera’s headquarters in Doha, Qatar, but Tony Blair talked him out of it. The story, which originally appeared in the British tabloid The Daily Mirror, quotes one source as saying that the threat was âhumorous, not serious,â? while another source claimed that [...]
Let me bring you up to speed. Pennsylvanian Congressman John Murtha, formerly one of Congress’ most hawkish Democrats and an old Marine, has introduced a non-binding resolution (i.e. even if Congress passed it, it would not have the force of law but only serve as a sort of recommendation) calling for American troops to be [...]
A conservative musical duo called the Right Brothers has made a God-awful, “We Didn’t Start the Fire” ripoff called “Bush Was Right” that they expect will become a sensation. They don’t have a video yet, but MSNBC’s Keith Olberman was kind enough supply them with an appropriately facile montage that you can view here. A [...]
Ninety-five bishops from the United Methodist Church, to which President Bush belongs, have signed a statement repenting for “their ‘complicity’ in the ‘unjust and immoral’ invasion and occupation of Iraq.” This number includes John Schol, bishop for the D.C./Baltimore area, ergo Bush’s bishop. Unfortunately, it seems extremely doubtful that President Bush himself, the man most [...]
Last night I watched the last half of a 20/20 special on greed. The final segment featured Lynn Sherr heaping praise on the tiny country of Bhutan because its government decreed that it was not so concerned with gross national product but instead with gross national happiness. From the 20/20 website: When the standard is [...]
After arresting a woman for possession of two and a half grams of weed, Mundelein Illinois police refused to send her to the hospital for an hour and a half, despite the fact that she was complaining of chest pains and requested an ambulance to be called. When she finally arrived at the hospital the [...]
This is pretty old news, but I’m sure anyone who hasn’t heard about it will find it humorous. The recently indicted Scooter Libby is also the author of a novel called The Apprentice set in a small Japanese village circa 1903, and the book contains some of the most bizarre and disturbing sexual situations in [...]
