This is how most Americans view the world. And while most of my countrymen are dumber than a box of rocks, we still seem to have a leg up on the monkeys. Easily the worst sportscaster of all time. Yes, worse than Chris Berman….way worse. This sportscaster, on the other hand, is just a little [...]
Archive for November, 2011
First, sorry for the light blogging this week, but you can’t say you weren’t warned. The good news is that I have next week off, so you can expect plenty of posts. That being said, let’s get to the story that had all the libertarian and conservative blogs atwitter yesterday: famed playwright David Mamet (Glengarry [...]
I’ve long held the still somewhat unpopular view that George McGovern should have beaten Richard Nixon in the 1972 presidential race, and here are two new reasons why. One, Nixon nearly started a nuclear war with the Soviets to drive a better bargain in the Vietnam War. Wired reports (link from MR): On the morning [...]
Stuff white people like. Play your favorite NES games online for free! These analogies may or may not actually be written by high school students, but many of them are very funny. What the fuck is going on in this ad!? Some old footage from when Hunter Thompson ran for sheriff. Will Arnett is one [...]
If you’re on the internet much, you’re probably familiar with this story about a marine throwing a puppy off a cliff. (Video here.) The military is still in the process of investigating the incident, so it’s possible that the dog was already dead or that this is some kind of elaborate video editing hoax, but [...]
Gary Gygax, the man who invented Dungeons and Dragons, has died. If you couldn’t tell from the nerd lingo in the post’s title, I used to play D&D….a lot. I could write something about how D&D gave me an outlet for my creativity when I was younger, but Chicken John Rinaldi has already written it [...]
Just hours before Obama hopefully sweeps Hillary Clinton’s candidacy into the dustbin of history, I wanted to be different and offer some reasons why it might actually be better to have her as president than Obama or McCain from a libertarian perspective. I’m not convinced by this argument as I now prefer Obama over the [...]
One of the few things that boosters of Castro’s regime cite that is actually accurate is that Cuba has a relatively large number of doctors. That doesn’t mean they have good healthcare, but there are lots of doctors in the country. In fact, this joke suggests there are too many doctors compared to other professions: [...]
