Archive for February, 2010
I Guess We Violence-Inciting Swastika-Waving Americans Aren’t So Bad After All
If baldfaced political hackery were an Olympic sport, Nancy Pelosi would have so much hardware around her neck that Mr. T or Flava Flav would spontaneously immolate themselves in white-hot flames of pure jealousy. Not all that long ago, Speaker Pelosi called the pretty average men and women of the Tea Party movement a bunch [...]
Boredom, Thy Name is Health Care Summit (A Contest!)
Lance Burri is running another Motivator contest and I think he may have won the thing right out of the box. However, that doesn’t stop me from trying. UPDATE: Smitty’s in with a musical throwback plus one.
Maybe We Need More Laser-Beheadings in News Reports
I don’t know who Charlie Brooker is, but I’m guessing, based on this revelatory report he’s now living under a new identity. He had to have been whisked away to a witness protection program lest he be torn apart by a horde of enraged television reporters frantic to preserve the myth that theirs is a [...]
A Small Planet Requires A Big Laser!
How big are the big things in the universe? Very, very big. And we are very, very small. Which is why we really do need to start building that Giant Space Laser right away. Bonus points if you can identify the movie theme used in the first half of the video. (via Caleb Howe)
The Democrats’ Kangaroo Court
This week, two Congressional committees are holding hearings on the alleged accelerator problems with Toyota vehicles. Combined, 59 Democrats sit on these panels, which command enough power to fatally cripple the company by seriously restricting its ability to sell cars in the United States. Here’s the kicker. Of those 59 Democrats, 31 have received campaign [...]
The Delivery Presents: The Week in Acronyms!
Episode 26 of The Delivery is ready to roll at all the usual hip spots whereĀ all the cool kids get their podcasts. My guest this week was the superior blogger and broadcaster Stephen Green. Originally, I had intended to spend a half-hour talking with him in the second half about his great post about [...]
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