Check out this eight minute video of people attempting to explain why a particularly terrible installment of that train wreck of a comic known as “Family Circus” was supposed to be funny. This is, of course, a fruitless endeavor, but the answers some of these people come up with are far funnier than anything Bill [...]
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Attention Bill Keane: For the Sake of Humanity, Please Retire or Die
Posted: May 17, 2006 in Uncategorized0
Terry Jones of Monty Python fame had an interesting editorial in the Times of London over the weekend arguing that the so-called barbaric tribes of Europe during the Roman Empire (e.g. the Gauls, Vandals, Germans, Celts, etc.) were actually the civilized ones. Jones makes a persuasive case, especially to someone like me, who has always [...]
This is definitely the best video of a Shiite cleric flipping out set to techno that I’ve ever seen, but I really wonder what is actually going on there. Via The Corner.
I know people have said it many times before, but really I think it’s true this time: irony is dead. Why? Because someone has made a real-time strategy game based on the Left Behind series of novels….ya know, the ones about the Rapture and whatnot. From the L.A. Times: One game, “Left Behind: Eternal Forces,” [...]
From my friend Tim Swanson writing at the Mises Blog, this has got to be the stupidest use of copyright law ever: Apparently when it comes to inventing team spirit, Texas A&M owns the proverbial 12th Man. For those unfamiliar with American sport of football, each team in the competition fields 11 players: one team [...]
After the U.S. government leaned on President Fox, it looks like Mexico won’t be legalizing the possession of small amounts of drugs after all. Any American travelers to Mexico caught possessing drugs will still have to face the current penalties: a bribe of fifty American dollars to a corrupt Tijuana cop. Whole story here.
Here’s an interesting article from the BBC on tritones, a musical interval the medievals referred to as the “devil’s interval” and now commonly appears in heavy metal. Read it and you will find out about the connections between Black Sabbath and Richard Wagner. The article also features commentary from a King’s College Professor with a [...]
I was watching Sports Center today, and they were showing a segment on Babe Ruth because of Barry Bonds’ imminent surpassing of his career homerun record. I don’t know why, but it had never occurred to me until then that Ruth repeatedly violated the law throughout his baseball career. “How’s that?” you ask. Ruth’s appetite [...]
In response to reports that Bush sang the “Star Spangled Banner” in Spanish on the 2000 campaign trail, the White House is claiming that Bush’s Spanish isn’t good enough to do it even if he wanted to. Bush must really be stuck between a rock and a hard place on the immigration issue for his [...]
Remember before the war in Iraq began how all the talking heads would go on about how Saddam built so many opulent palaces while the Iraqi people starved. Well guess whose building opulent structures while Iraqis starve now? That’s right: our government, and their project far outstrips anything Saddam could even imagine. From the Times [...]
