I know I am the 300 millionth person to weigh in on this (as usual) over-hyped subject, so I’ll be brief.
The cartoon was satire - humor that has the intention of making a serious point.
We all know Americans love jokes, as is evidenced by Comedy Central’s endless repetition of stale, cookie-cutter stand-up comic routines about [...]
George Bush Biopic Actors Arrested.
Take out two words and that’d be a grrrreat headline.
There is a new contributors podcast out, so contributors, please check your feeds. And also check your email, as I sent you all a little missive.
And for everyone else, I’m on track to have a new audio podcast out this week sometime.
As always, thanks for listening and for not making fun of my voice.
I wanted to share these links from the forum, as they are quite insane and should be seen by everyone.
First of all, the fictional psychological disorder Orthorexia is not on the rise, as it doesn’t exist. But I hope you can all avoid the pitfall of caring too much about your own health, as [...]
American ignorance a security threat - Ignorance is a great American tradition handed down from some people whose names I don’t know.
FISA vote map - You know I don’t give a lick about the whole patriotism thing, but this is one sad map.
Whatever happened to Napoleon’s penis - I was wondering where I left that.
Alliance [...]
Dog meat: Offensive.
Cow meat: Official Sponsor.
What is Patriotism - “Blind, unceasing, narcissistic pride.”
Muppet Patriotism - Nothing blind or narcissistic here.
Speechwriter leaves out rather important part of Jefferson quote - You’ve probably seen this already, as it was getting passed around quite a bit over the weekend. Still, can you imagine an elected official today uttering the phrase “monkish ignorance [...]
To give everyone some idea of what the new StM forum is like, and to maybe nudge some of you who are teetering on the edge of signing up, I thought I’d open up one of our current discussions to the general public. Although I doubt very much that the “general public” reads this [...]
Why is it news when celebrities have babies?
In fact, is it news when celebrities have babies? Answer: It’s not news when celebrities have babies. And yet it is treated as news when celebrities have babies. I guess the rest of the world, when they hear that a celebrity is having a baby, thinks that it’s [...]
I have complained about PETA before, and will most likely do so again, so I’m sorry to repeat myself.
But it goes without saying that the general public thinks that PETA is a vegan organization and that all vegans are members of PETA. But the general public also thinks that Barack Obama would make [...]