George Carlin died Sunday.
Archive for June, 2008
Gates? BILL Gates?
So CNN is sucking Bill off. Some say his wealth and famous opportunism are reminiscent of the robber barons of yore. Yet here is a man who has set a goal to eradicate malaria. Rich as he is — his net worth is an estimated $50 billion — you can’t call the man greedy when he has pledged […]
Quite Possibly the Best Photo I’ve Ever Taken
Saturday was the Literary Extravaganza hosted at Beale Street Brews. This was the second sortie in a fundraising effort to help students at the dojo (White Wind Tiger) pay for their fees for an upcoming tournament. Once students get past a certain rank, tournament attendance is compulsory, but the fees can run as high as $90 per […]
Everything you Need to Know about Race Relations
summed up in the article title: Chinese South Africans now black The title is from the Beeb. The report is that Chinese living in SA have been officially recategorized as black in order to receive affirmative action benefits. The sense, of course, is obvious. As far as many white people are still concerned, there’s whites … and […]
Complicated Men want a Salad.
It was the title on the post that got me. “What Men Really Want for Father’s Day” It’s pretty simple. Men aren’t complex. For birthdays, Christmas, Kwanzaa, Passover, we all want basically the same thing. What baffles me, at least, is why this clear desire is sublimated into political agendas, subterfuge and chaos. What do men really want […]
Know what I did today?
I bought this artwork. The artist’s site is here. This is my picture. A bargain for $40 to commemorate the Weird Tales festival. Oh … yes, it’s insane. But so am I.
?Dlrow Orrazzib
Hmm. Okay, in Friday’s Bleat, James Lileks comments (screedifies?) on a few memes floating around that rub him the wrong way. He begins thus: As I said on the Hewitt show tonight, I feel as if Bizarro World is slowly leaking into ours, and one day we will see Superman and note he has that ugly grey faceted […]
Stop Press: Panda Dies
Nine-year-old panda Mao Mao was buried amid much mourning and sorrow earlier this week. The animal was killed during the earthquake that hit China last month and killed nearly 30,000 people, at least a thousand of whom were kids in schools that pancaked down upon them and left them to die buried in rubble. “You must […]
Hymenoplasty in the UK
Hymenoplasty is a procedure used to surgically re-create the hymen in a woman’s vagina. Muslim women in Europe are undertaking the procedure in order to circumvent their religion’s idiocy regarding virginity. While I’ll agree that it’s no one’s business whether a woman is a virgin or not, if there’s a surgery which can be used to shoot even a small hole […]
More Gas from the Wind Sock
I’m not beating the drum for Barack, really I’m not. I liked Kucinich more than all the other candidates combined. (Even more now that he’s read articles of impeachment against the Retard in Chief. Really.) My objections to Hillary were mainly rooted in the fact that, particularly in the last month or two, she behaved more […]
Another Sham Trial to Begin
Remember 2003? Remember when Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was captured? He’s the guy who apparently masterminded the hijack-crash attacks that took place on you-know-what date in 2001. He’s due to go on trial (with others) at Guantanamo soon. Well, actually, it’s not going to be a trial — it’s going to be a tribunal. And that’s only one […]
GM: Hyuk Hyuk, we’s Stoooooooopid!
There doesn’t seem to be a lot of comment on the fact that Gm has announced a shutdown of four plants; the facilities were producing trucks and SUVs, and only an inbred cretin like Bush could possibly be surprised at the news “news” that big fat-assed gas pigging vehicles are not what we want or need on […]
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