Month: December 2009

  • 54% Americans Okay with Torture

    Too much Jack Bauer: Most notably, 19% of the public says the use of torture is often justified to gain important information from terrorist suspects, while 35% say the use of torture in these circumstances is at least sometimes justified. Just 2% of [Council on Foreign Relations] members say torture is often justified, and 11% […]

  • The Entire Team Must Jump in front of the Verba Buena Gardens fountain- at least 2 sets of feet must

    From the TypePad Team Scavenger Hunt – http://ferocity.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/typepad-scavenger-hunt-andy-27.html The Entire Team Must Jump in front of the Verba Buena Gardens fountain- at least 2 sets of feet must As a final step before posting your comment- enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

  • Bonus Points for a Picture of Hello Kitty

    From the TypePad Team – Scavenger Hunt http://ferocity.typepad.com/blog/2009/12/typepad-scavenger-hunt-bonus-hellokitty.html Bonus Points for a Picture of Hello Kitty As a final step before posting your comment- enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

  • Zombie Reagan Raised From Grave To Lead GOP | The Onion – America's Finest News Source

    Be sure to read the news crawl at the bottom: "Michael Steele: Reagan's Carcass Most Charsimatic GOP Leader of Our Time" – "Scientists Used Used Tainted Blood from Psychotic Rabbits to Reanimate Reagan" – "Mitt Romney Looking to Seize Party Leadership by Eating Small Child" Zombie Reagan Raised From Grave To Lead GOP | The […]

  • Obama as Rorschach

    Glen Greenwald: Obama has now embraced the fundamentals of the dreaded “Bush Doctrine”: namely, we will fight wars even in countries that are not posing any threat to us in order to prevent some future threat that may or may not emerge. …[L]ike most Obama decisions, last night he incorporated enough of every side and […]

  • Taglines

    The tagline for the Clash of the Titans remake is: Titans. Will. Clash. A commenter on metaphor muses on the tagline writer’s previous work: Kane! Is! A! Citizen! Driver! Of! Taxi! Now! Is! Apocalypse! Jedi! Will! Return! Fiction! Will! Pulp! Fellas! Are! Good! Lebowski! Is! Big! Lambs! Will! Be Silent! Benjamin Button! Is! Curious! The […]

  • Man Dies in ER Waiting Room, Gets Robbed

    Awful: Rivera walked into the Aria Health Frankford Hospital emergency room at about 10:45 p.m. Saturday complaining of pain in his left arm and torso. As his wait to be treated moved into its second hour, Rivera lost consciousness. Police say during this time, suspect Atlen and two others removed Rivera’s watch, passed it around […]

  • UK Teen Trips His Balls Off – Literally

    Tripping balls: A LEGAL drug known as ‘meow meow’ led one lad to rip off his own SCROTUM, police said today. The lad hallucinated for 18 hours and mutilated himself because he believed centipedes were crawling over his body and biting him. Cops warned people to stay away from the drug Mephedrone which is sold […]