I think this article by Declan McCullagh tells you a lot about a mentality common among members of Congress and their staffs: The latest episode appeared last week in the form of a report that aides to Rep. Marty Meehan, a Massachusetts Democrat, deleted references to his broken term-limits pledge and massive campaign war chest [...]
Archive for November, 2011
L.A. Times columnist has taken a lot of heat over the last two days for his piece “Warriors and wusses,” the first sentence of which reads “I don’t support our troops.” That’s some pretty provocative stuff, even given that the war’s popularity has massively declined since the “Mission Accomplished” moment in May 2003. Stein summed [...]
Textbooks dealing with the history of South Asia (i.e. modern day India and Pakistan) have come under fire from Hindu nationalist groups in California. Why? Because Hindu nationalists–like any other kind of nationalist–are uncomfortable with any historical facts (or even debates) that might diminish their national pride. From the Christian Science Monitor: At stake, say [...]
I saw this bit on the Daily Show Monday night and nearly pissed myself laughing. I’m glad that it has been posted somewhere, and I’m sure you will be too. Via The Agitator.
An FDA advisory panel has approved over the counter sales of a drug that blocks the absorbtion of fat. The bad news? A bevy of potentially distasteful and embarrassing side effects struck about half the participants in trials of the drug. Those side effects, including fecal incontinence, gas and oily discharge that spotted the undergarments [...]
Venture over to The Superficial website and be treated to accurate mockings of shallow celebrities and a video featuring Nicole Richie’s nipple. Via Hit and Run.
Leftist raconteur and Iraq war proponent Christopher Hitchens recently joined in the ACLU’s lawsuit to stop President Bush and the NSA from tapping the phones of American citizens without a court order (which itself is really just a rubber stamp). His reasoning, I believe, is sound: We are, in essence, being asked to trust the [...]
Does anyone else remember when Eminem was funny and didn’t just rap about how he’s sad and misunderstood and abused by the press, his mother, his ex and now current wife, etc? Yeah, it’s been a while. Well, two of Reason Magazine’s editors, Nick Gillespie and Brian Doherty, humorously predicted this musical catastrophe way back [...]
I’m a little behind the curve on this one, but it bears mentioning anyway: Nobel Prize winning economist Joseph Stiglitz and Harvard lecturer Linda Bilmes have concluded that the war in Iraq may end up costing over two trillion dollars. To put that number into understandable terms, that is roughly $6,700 for every man, woman, [...]
You should take a gander at this mockumentary featuring Andy Dick that ridicules President Bush’s many malapropisms. Enjoy.
