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Hello Big Mac, Goodbye Big Brother
2007-07-15 00:00:00 When free markets strike, they strike hard, and Orwellian governments get the sorest bruises. The People?s Republic of China opened its markets a bit, and the politburo quickly got slapped with a black eye and a bloody nose; because when free markets reign, the government?s accountability to its citizenry switches from optional to mandatory. More About: Big Brother , Goodbye , Brother , Big B , Hello
Playing Catch with Cannonballs
2007-07-15 00:00:00 Al Qaeda is skipping rope with the US-Mexico border line; terror suspects play hide-n-seek with the British police. Meanwhile, oblivious to the human cannonballs we?ll soon be dodging, we sit glued to our TV?s, which feed us the newest developments in Ms. Hilton?s incarceration. Priorities, people! More About: Catch , Ball , Anno
HANDS OFF MY CHOCOLATE
2007-07-13 00:00:00 Oh, England. Still teetering on the brink of fascism, I see. Turning a momentary blind eye to the recent idiotic attempts to freeze out Israeli academia and goods (read: anti-semitism), allow me to introduce England?s newest low: the ?fat tax.? More About: Chocolate , Hands , Chocolat , Choco
China Plays Catch-Up on Safety Standards
2007-07-13 00:00:00 Glowing toothpaste anyone? We banned it in the US eighty or so years ago when we discovered that radioactive isotopes are not so good for us. But I?m sure that you can get some made in China . In fact, they?ve got everything you need to get rid of your pesky children infestations: Led painted toy trains, poisoned cough syrup, toxic fish? More About: Standards , Safety , Plays , Catch
Al Zheimer?s in Al Qaeda
2007-07-13 00:00:00 The good doctor has a serious case of Alzheimer?s. Zawahiri, Al Qaeda ?s second in command, released a tape blessing the terrorist bombing that killed 6 Spaniards in June and also threatened England with more bombings if Brown does not learn from Blair?s mistakes (presumably, Afghanistan and Iraq). More About: Al-Qaeda
All?s Well But The Infidel
2007-07-13 00:00:00 How to approach the fairer sex? Google it. Need tie a Windsor knot for that big interview? That?s on Google too. I?m not married yet, but I?m slowly approaching that milestone; so you can imagine my pleasure at finding a how-to guide so that I could, one day, properly beat my wife? More About: Well
Cindy Sheehan for President!
2007-07-13 00:00:00 God bless America for its indulgence of certifiable nut jobs. How could the world hate us so? If Al-Qaeda and European schadenfreude had its way, and America collapsed, where would the crazies live? More About: President , Cindy Sheehan , Sheehan , Shee , Resident
The More Things Change?
2007-07-07 00:00:00 Things seem to have changed not at all between the time of E.B. White?s writing and today. Simply add I-S-L-A-M-O to ?fascism? and you too will see how similarly circumstances present themselves today. Some people will forever defend their right to freedom, while others will eternally fight to take it away. Only the names change. More About: Change , Things , Thing , Chang , Chan
Where Are Party Line Politics When You Need Them?
2007-06-29 00:00:00 On the corner of New Utrecht Avenue and 65th Street, at a run-down gas station in a run-down neighborhood of New York?s Brooklyn borough, a small army of Mexicans rushes the back and side of a minivan. Sheer numbers quickly overwhelm the car, which rocks from the force of thirty men fighting for eight seats. More About: Politics , Party , Line , Where , Poli
Mister, Will You Pay For My Sex Change?
2007-06-28 00:00:00 I see London, I see France, I see you?ve got nothing under those prison-issued underpants. Something had been there recently, in fact, until British tax payers funded John Pilley?s sex-change operation in 1999, making legal history. More About: Change , Chang , Chan
Rubles, The New Currency of Britain?s Upper Crust
2007-06-26 00:00:00 Russia?s disgrace thrives on London streets. Contemporary art sells for record prices at Christie?s, as Moscow on the Thames roars lively this time of year ? the grizzly assassination of an expatriate spy long forgotten by London?s newly immigrated, novo riche. More About: Britain , Currency , Rust , Crust , Rubles
Playing Catch with Cannonballs
2007-06-25 00:00:00 Al Qaeda is skipping rope with the US-Mexico border line; terror suspects play hide-n-seek with the British police. Meanwhile, oblivious to the human cannonballs we?ll soon be dodging, we sit glued to our TV?s, which feed us the newest developments in Ms. Hilton?s incarceration. Priorities, people! More About: Catch , Cannonball , Ball , Anno
Hello Big Mac, Goodbye Big Brother
2007-06-25 00:00:00 When free markets strike, they strike hard, and Orwellian governments get the sorest bruises. The People?s Republic of China opened its markets a bit, and the politburo quickly got slapped with a black eye and a bloody nose; because when free markets reign, the government?s accountability to its citizenry switches from optional to mandatory. More About: Big Brother , Goodbye , Brother , Big B , Hello
(WWAD) What Would the ACLU Do?
2007-06-25 00:00:00 Brace yourselves: Chris Ofili will unveil his newest creation, titled ?The Holy Muhammad,? predictably depicting a naked black man surrounded by pornography and elephant dung. His new exhibit, Sensation II, will also appear at The Brooklyn Museum. More About: Would , The A
A Jihad on the Queen!
2007-06-25 00:00:00 Some honors inspire reverence; others seem only good for instigating death threats. The British Queen knighted famed novelist Salman Rushdie today. The threats that followed were not as unexpected as their sources. Pakistan and Iran issued joint statements condemning the honors as ?an affront to Muslim Sentiments.? A Pakistani Cabinet minister added that the honor justifies suicide attacks. More About: Jihad , The Queen
Playing ?Clue? in the Middle East
2007-06-25 00:00:00 Was it Israel in Gaza with the candlestick? Perhaps the international community with the trucks of money in aid it?s been pouring into the Palestinian territories? So who was it, then, that murdered at least 59 Palestinians in Gaza since Monday? More About: Middle East , The Middle East , East , Middle
Political Zealot Denied Tenure
2007-06-25 00:00:00 Earlier this week, the DePaul University board of trustees struck a blow for academic integrity when they denied Normal Finkelstein his hotly contested petition for tenure. Finkelstein, Noam Chomsky?s long-time protégé, had spent the last decade attacking Israel, survivors of the Holocaust and any academic literature in support of either one. More About: Political , Zeal , Poli , Politic
Political Finger Pointing: Why if you do not like Bush Jr., you should have
2007-06-25 00:00:00 And we?re off? As the ?political derby? (to quote our editors) commences, we find ourselves faced with a number of candidates whose recent politicking twists a once-noble proverb. As the early worm now seeks to catch itself a bird ? in this case, the Eagle ? we must beg ourselves two age-old questions: Who is the lesser of the evils? And did we make a mistake the last go around? More About: Bush , Political , Inti , Like , Finger
Brits Vote to Kill Free Debate, Degrade Academia
2007-06-25 00:00:00 It seems that the eternally fair British academic union heads have deemed that the state of the world is looking up these days. So the scholars at the University and College Union (UCU) voted to boycott Israeli universities as a sort of prescription for world peace. Take two aspirins, dissolve the Jewish state, take a large breath - and swallow. More About: Free , Debate , Academia , Vote , Kill
Update: British Boycott of Israeli Universities
2007-06-25 00:00:00 As predicted earlier in these pages, the British universities? union?s decision to push for a boycott of Isra eli academics is giving the Brits one hell of a hangover. Had the academics a modicum of foresight (and backbone against the Palestinian lobbies), they would have put their anti-semitism on the backburner, favoring to save their reputation instead - to say nothing of saving their universities. More About: Update , Boycott , Univ
Parisian Progressive Poseurs
More articles from this author:2007-06-25 00:00:00 National identity? France doesn?t need a national identity. What it needs is more Arab ghettos, less workforce diversity, and as many home grown terrorists as it can muster against the rest of the West? More About: Progressive , Pose 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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