Month: November 2009

  • Everyone In Huddle Afraid To Tell Aaron Rodgers About Turf Stuck In Teeth | The Onion – America's Fi

    Everyone In Huddle Afraid To Tell Aaron Rodgers About Turf Stuck In Teeth | The Onion – America's Fi GREEN BAY- WI–Members of the Packers offense opted not to tell quarterback Aaron Rodgers about the large clump of turf wedged between his front teeth…

  • Limbaugh Advocates Military Insurrection

    From the Examiner: Rush, speaking about President Obama’s upcoming speech at West Point, expressed hope that military officials at the Academy would “detain” President Obama. Regardless of one’s politics, to suggest that military officials at the United States Military Academy detain the President of the United States is to suggest a military coup. Such a […]

  • Dubai: Morally, Financially Bankrupt Dictatorship Built by Slaves

    From the Independent: The people who really built the city can be seen in long chain-gangs by the side of the road… in heat that Westerners are told not to stay in for more than 10 minutes. They were conned into coming, and trapped into staying. Yet the Westerners who have flocked to Dubai brag […]

  • Gimme Just One Reason

    From Fool.com We simply want to see one, logical, clear explanation for why we shouldn’t break the banks apart — or bring back Glass-Steagall, separating investment banking and trading activities from commercial banking.  In our opinion, no one has rationally shown why the economy is better off when three or four banks dominate the land, […]

  • Avoiding Online Video Catastrophes: Its YouTube's Dirty Little Secret

    Everyone should listen to everything Rob Schultz says: Avoiding Online Video Catastrophes: Its YouTube's Dirty Little Secret A Topic Trigger is not a subject you want to write about. Its a subject your audience wants to hear about. When you are able to select topics for your videos that deal with something urgent on your […]

  • Man in 23-year 'Coma' Was Conscious The Whole Time

    Oh my god. A man thought by doctors to be in a vegetative state for 23 years was actually conscious the whole time, it was revealed last night. He had no way of letting experts, family or friends know he could hear every word they said. ‘I screamed, but there was nothing to hear,’ said […]

  • Goldman Sachs’s Tax Rate Drops to 1%

    Time to prep the guillotine: Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which got $10 billion and debt guarantees from the U.S. government in October, expects to pay $14 million in taxes worldwide for 2008 compared with $6 billion in 2007. The company’s effective income tax rate dropped to 1 percent from 34.1 percent, New York-based Goldman Sachs […]

  • Bella and Edwards Have Sex

    This LiveJournal-er is a former Mormon and analyzes all the LDS symbolism and motifs in the series. Unsatisfied with the description of the final consummation, the blogger writes what she thought happened the first time Bella and Edward had sex: A unicorn comes to Bella and pierces her ladyhood with its majestic horn, completing the […]

  • An Older Man, A Younger Woman

    Finding a great harvest of Twilight snark. Here’s more: You know, when I’m a 300 year old vampire (it’s going to happen, just wait), I just know that above and beyond anything I’m going to want a deep, meaningful connection – the kind of connection that can only be formed with a 16 year old […]

  • The Twilight Saga and Domestic Abuse

    From Vampirely which actually has a category for ‘I literally put the book down:’ Edward is an emotional batterer, and Bella is constantly and persistently victimized by his actions. What makes it sad is that the author herself seems to have no idea that she was writing about an abusive, codependent teenage relationship. … The […]