Stranger than Fiction
My God! A national candidate will TALK to the PRESS!
Monday, September 8th, 2008I just finished watching Amy Goodman talking about her arrest at the RNC when I continued through the feeds and found much! breathless! self-congratulation! that ABC’s Charlie Gibson had made himself tolerable enough to the media-disdaining McCain campaign to be an acceptable interviewer, in their eyes.
After his interview with Mr. McCain had aired, Mr. [...]
Here, rape my daughters: Quaint scenes of family values from the Judeo-Christian tradition
Saturday, August 9th, 2008Sometimes we’re reminded that Christianity had issues long before medieval adventure-hungry young men were offered a trip to the Near East to get off on killing heretics or anyone else who looked rather swarthy; before various Inquisition purges and the campaign against, well, women, basically; before proto-capitalists used Jesus to beat as much labor out [...]
Homoerotic or not? You decide.
Thursday, July 24th, 2008Terrorists bump fists, but Americans bump chests? Seriously, this looks indecent. We love it when the military shows its man-love roots.
Photo courtesy of AP, and thank God for the UK’s Daily Mail.
Teenager pranks White House out of sheer curiosity; blowback kind of hilarious
Tuesday, December 11th, 2007Now this is funny, and it lends evidence to our theory that teenagers might save the world. Reason being? Long known for their unique ability to program VCRs, teenagers are also weirdly adept at hacking into government networks, and appear to be the only real threat posed to the infrastructure of capitalism.
So when an Icelandic [...]
A gay bomb: seriously?
Friday, June 15th, 2007Or, how the US military is going to put The Onion out of business:
The Berkeley, CA organization “Sunshine Project” got its hands on a proposal to develop a hormone bomb whose stated purpose was to turn enemy soldiers mad gay for each other. No, really.