Want absolute proof that the American people are morons with terrible taste? Arrested Development, Fox’s multiple Emmy winning show has just been canceled in the middle of it’s third season. It was easily the best show on network television, but I guess most Americans are completely at a loss when it comes to subtle humor, [...]
Archive for November, 2011
With all the recent brouhaha surrounding oil companies’ record profits, I thought it would be a good time to dispel the myth that they are somehow gouging us consumers. Accordingly, here is the link to an exceptionally good Reason article defending the oil companies’ profits. The whole thing is worth reading, but if you’re too [...]
It has been a generally accepted fact for some time now that during the Hurricane Katrina crisis, former FEMA director Mike Brown revealed himself as an incompetent. What was not known was the magnitude of his incompetence, but thanks to some recently released emails we now know that magnitude: stupefying. From Bloomberg: Former Federal Emergency [...]
The Independent is carrying an article charging that the United States military used chemical weapons (specifically phosphorus shells) during the second seige of Fallujah last November. The military admits to using phosphorus shells “very sparingly in Fallujah, for illumination purposes.” But according to the article: ….new information has surfaced, including hideous photographs and videos and [...]
Today, President Bush claimed that the United States government does not torture its prisoners. This statement is clearly false to anyone that has not adopted Alberto Gonzales’ extremely narrow definition of torture, but that isn’t even the most absurd part of this whole deal. The reason Bush has to make this statement is because Congress [...]
Who else could I possibly be referring to but Yoko Ono? For almost forty years the woman has served as the archetype of the bitchy girlfriend that drives best friends apart, and rightly so, because she is apparently still waging that war. Last month she implicitly slighted Paul McCartney while accepting an award on John [...]
It appears that the CIA is holding terror suspects in several Eastern European countries and some old Soviet gulags. Of course, that is creepy enough in and of itself, but there’s more: The Washington Post is not publishing the names of the Eastern European countries involved in the covert program, at the request of senior [...]
Wayne Goldsberry, a Bentonville Arkansas man, killed a five point buck with his bare hands after it busted through the window of his daughter’s house. The AP reports: When it was over, blood splattered the walls and the deer lay dead on the bedroom floor, its neck broken. [….] “I was standing about like this [...]
The U.S. has released 500 Iraqi prisoners in a showing of good will for the end of Ramadan. From Reuters: The detainees were presented with a Koran and $25 on their release which marked Eid al-Fitr celebrations. Their release was in addition to 1,000 prisoners set free in October at the start of the month [...]
