Month: February 2007
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Book Banned Over Use of the Word ‘Scrotum'
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any stupider: …”The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron, this year’s winner of the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s literature. The book’s heroine, a scrappy 10-year-old orphan named Lucky Trimble, hears the word through a hole in a wall when another character says he […]
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Tim Hardaway Doesn't Like Gay People
Nice: You know, I hate gay people, so I let it be known. I don’t like gay people and I don’t like to be around gay people. I’m homophobic. I don’t like it. It shouldn’t be in the world or in the United States. And if there was an out player on his team: If […]
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The Big Mo
Did anyone else just see CNN on Rudy Giuliani calling this THE BIG MO As in ‘the big moment’. Not to be confused with A BIG ‘MO As in ‘the big frickin’ homo.’
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Midnight Tribute
Anna Nicole rings at midnight.
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Florida Town Desperately Afraid of Vaginas
A Florida comedy club received one complaint over the title of The Vagina Monologues on their marquee. They have renamed the title: The Hooha Monologues 1 complaint.
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Ted Haggard: 100% Heterosexual
Right.
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Molly Ivins on Rush Limbaugh and Satire
Departed Molly: Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel. It has historically been the weapon of powerless people aimed at the powerful. When you use satire against powerless people, as Limbaugh does, it is not only cruel, it’s profoundly vulgar. It is like kicking a cripple.
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Online Privacy Nightmare
I have a Tivo. Tivo monitors my TV watching habits, what I rewind and what I skip. I pay for my Tivo with a credit card. The credit card company can collate all of my purchasing habits showing what I buy, what else I buy it with, where I buy it and when. My credit […]
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Kellog Madness
I have eaten an entire box of Special K with Strawberries in the last 12 hours. That is all. Further bulletins as events warrant.
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Joe Biden's Toilet Cleanser