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Monthly Archives: May 2008

Scott McClellan

If you’re not already aware, he just wrote a book about how awful the Bush Administration was for spreading misleading propaganda. Here’s some of his greatest hits while he was still actually a part of the Bush Administration.

Sometimes, when you fuck up big enough, even an entire book isn’t apology enough.

What You’re Scared Of Is Just A Game

The U.K.’s Daily Mail has printed a story about how “Islamic extremists” have posted pictures of an “apocalyptic scene” on an Internet “terror forum.” Surely, this is cause for alarm. Al-Qaeda’s terrifying vision of a devastated America in the wake of a nuclear attack — Daily Mail
Unfortunately for the chicken littles, the “apocalyptic scene” is [...]

Fame And Art

J.K. Rowling is selling a Harry Potter prequel for charity. She wrote it on a piece of cardboard. While that’s not quite a Picasso level of art-fame (routinely paying for dinner by scribbling on the napkin so that the waiter could have his own real Picaso) it’s the same phenomenon. The value of the object [...]

The Dignity Of The Office


Musgrove (D - MS)

For those who doubt the Democratic wave in American politics, this Rasmussen poll shows a Democrat in the lead for the Missississippi Senate. Election 2008: Mississippi Senate Special
Mississippi. Nowhere is safe if you’re a Republican these days.

Love Is Weird

Eija-Riitta Berliner-Mauer, 54, whose surname means Berlin Wall in German, wed the concrete structure in 1979 after being diagnosed with a condition called Objectum-Sexuality.
Mrs Berliner-Mauer, whose fetish is said to have its roots in childhood, claimed she fell in love with the structure when she first saw it on television when she was seven.
Woman ‘married’ [...]

Shooting People Is Funny When You’re On Fox

In case you’re concerned that the context would somehow make it better.

11th Inning

I just got back from the Pirates’ game. It was a real good one. I got to see a 2-6 double play, and one of the rare proper uses of the intentional walk. With the Pirates down by one in the bottom of the 11th, tied at four and a runner on second with two [...]

The Most Trusted Name In News

Folks love to bust on FoxNews for being “fair and balanced” where “fair and balanced” means, “grossly biased hard to the right,” but is CNN really so much better?
CNN has recently hired Alex Castellanos, who has called Hillary Clinton a “bitch” on air, who made one of the most racist political ads in history (for [...]

TV Is Safe

There’s a dollar bill in that sandwich from KFC.

Since the sandwich costs 99 cents, you can make a one cent profit if you buy one!