Archive for December, 2008

They’d better be spending it all on security guards.

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.

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 […]