Heavily armed security guards. Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other benefits last year, an Associated Press analysis reveals. Dear bank execs: Watch your backs.
Archive for December, 2008
I like the direction this is going
A Muslim scholar in Germany has questioned the validity of the existence of Mohammed. Muhammad Sven Kalisch lumps the alleged recipient of the recitation in the same category with Jesus, Abraham et. al., to which can probably be added Siddhartha Gautama: He told the [Toronto] Star in a recent phone interview that his research leads him […]
Some of my friends have talent.
Ayup. I’ve known this guy for years. (Wait for him to sing. It’s worth it.) So there.
Why SUVs and their owners deserve the same fate
A Colombian ad agency, promoting the Chevy Tahoe, has come up with an image that both sums up the mindset of SUV owners, and illustrates why the SUV can’t die soon enough: [Text reads, “The street is yours.”] And still Chevrolet can’t understand why their branding and message are obsolete.
Mumbai: Two get it
I’ve been monitoring the English-speaking world’s response to the Mumbai attacks of last week, and in that time I’ve encountered (out of dozens) one editorial cartoon and one column that actually cut to the heart of the matter. If you go to Daryl Cagle’s archive of political toons, you’ll find a subsection on the Mumbai attacks. […]
Christard threats spread overseas
I’m not about to try to minimize the Muslim-backed insanity in Mumbai; I just thought I’d point out that Islam isn’t the only Abrahamic religion that has a virulent fundamentalist streak. While this poster advertising a bible camp in New Delhi isn’t as totally obnoxious as some Christard efforts I’ve seen, it’s up there. “If you don’t want to […]
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