Month: July 2006
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Innocent Civilians Placed on Watchlist to Fulfill Quotas
Think you’re safer? “Innocent passengers are being entered into an international intelligence database as suspicious persons, acting in a suspicious manner on an aircraft … and they did nothing wrong,” said one federal air marshal. The air marshals, whose identities are being concealed, told 7NEWS that they’re required to submit at least one report a […]
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Washington Post Misreads NAACP Reaction to Bush as Approval
Washington Post staff writer Darryl Fears noted that Bush received “thunderous applause” after he “acknowledged that his political party wrote off the black vote.” But, in fact, while that comment drew scattered applause, the audience responded much more energetically — with applause and yells of “Yeah” — to a comment he made immediately before: that […]
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Bravo TV's Workout
Jocko linked this review of Bravo TV’s new show Workout. Ron and I watched the first episode but it seemed pretty boring and almost repellent. Beautiful whiny people whining about wanting to be more beautiful. There’s the annoying girl, the bitchy girl, the meathead, the other meathead the gay meathead, the super-aggressive lesbian boss and […]
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Why Men Are So Stupid
When men spend the night in the same bed with someone else their sleep patterns are disturbed, even if they do not have sex. This leads to poorer performance in intelligence tests the next day. Women, too, get disturbed sleep if they share a bed, but their mental ability is not affected. Professor Gerhard Kloesch […]
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American Bar Association Rejects Bush's Signing Statements
Saw this in the paper today and again on MeFi. The American Bar Association did an examination of the President’s signing statements. For those that don’t know/remember, a signing statement is when the President says This bill you just passed through both houses of Congress, well, fuck you I’m going to do whatever I want. […]
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The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green
Mostly harmless. Based on a comic. Not as sexy as it could have been, not as funny as it think it is. Surely they could have found a make-up artist willing to work for almost nothing or intern for this movie. Instead we are treated to digital video shots of actors pimples, stretchmarks and other […]
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Brewing: UK Defense Minister's Death Might Not Have Been Suicide
Dr Kelly was the Ministry of Defence scientist whose conversations with a BBC journalist led to reports that the government “sexed up” the threat posed by Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. In July 2003 he was found dead with his wrists slashed. and AN MP conducting an investigation into the death of Dr David Kelly […]
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Gap-Toothed Murderess
It is Sunday. I thought I’d type out a journal and post it instead of the usual long hand. The Gay Games ended yesterday with the closing ceremonies at Wrigley Field. One blogger commented that for once all the drunks on Addison and Clark were obnoxious gay people instead of drunk obnoxious straight people. The […]
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Why to Have a Gay Games
Uganda Originally uploaded by TheBrad. Here’s that guy from Uganda I was talking about – the only person from the entire country.
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RFK Jr. Claims Evidence of Voting Machine Fraud
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed a “qui tam” lawsuit in U.S. District Court, alleging that Diebold and other electronic voting machine (EVM) companies fraudulently represented to state election boards and the federal government that their products were “unhackable.” Kennedy claims to have witnesses “centrally located, deep within the corporations,” who will confirm that company officials […]