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Feeding The World One Word At A Time
2007-12-19 09:14:00 Philanthropic wordsmiths, take note! This is cool. John Breen, a computer programmer from Indiana who operates the Poverty.com website, has now also developed an online game that teaches vocabulary … and helps to fight world hunger at the same time. It’s fun, it’s free, and it feeds. Not to mention that you’ll also pick up a ... More About: Society , Health , International , World , General
Giuliani?s Feminine Side
2007-12-17 21:59:00 YIKES! Hail to the potential Chief! A presidential election of firsts this will be, indeed. In addition to the conventional troupe of white guys in suits and ties, we also have the breasted, asbestos-pantsuited Hillary, the black-enough, non-Muslim Barack, and then, of course, the 9/11-superhero, occasional crossdresser Rudy, all on board for our consideration. Mixing ... More About: Society , Politics , Government , General , Current Events
MLK Revisited
2007-12-15 23:09:00 Okay, my bad for thinking I knew it all. In a previous post about the folks in the black community “having their panties in a bunch” over the soon to be raised Martin Luther King Memorial on the National Mall being contracted to a Chinaman rather than to one of their own, I wrote: “I just ... More About: Society , General , Current Events , Issues , Racism
Hawkeye State, Starting Gate
2007-12-14 04:26:00 Yesterday the Republicans, today the Democrats. Their final respective debates before the Iowa caucuses to be held on January 3, and a combined three hours of my life frittered away. Must see TV? Hardly. Mind-numbing it was. The Republicans were in fact so boring that I actually dozed off for a few minutes. I did ... More About: Politics , Gate , Government , General , Current Events
Gimme An F!
2007-12-12 08:24:00 In case you haven’t heard, we’re in the midst of an ice storm here in the Midwest. Ice is cold, not to mention slippery, so I just stayed in today. All day. Since the power came back on this morning, I’ve spent pretty much most of my time right here, Googling and Stumbling until my ... More About: Society , Politics , Security , Government , Iraq
Aussie Justice
2007-12-11 08:52:00 If you and eight of your closest friends happen to fancy gang-raping ten-year-old girls, Australia is the must-see place to visit. Queensland and surrounding territories are particularly desirable since this lovely lady, the Honourable Judge Sarah Bradley, will be your ally if by some chance others might frown upon your prepubescent dalliances. Not to worry, ... More About: Society , International , World , Justice , General
Huckabee? Hope Not.
2007-12-09 01:41:00 Mike Huckabee. Until recently, a name not often recognized, a face probably even less so. Now it seems that the little engine that couldn’t is beginning to pick up some Conservative steam, and may prove to actually be capable of chugging alongside the bigger locomotives (or should I say, “loco motives” … we are talking ... More About: Society , Politics , Government , Health Care , General
Martin Luther King, Made In China
2007-12-06 02:25:00 I’m a certifiable NPR whore. Morning Edition, Fresh Air, All Things Considered … as soon as I hear the first few notes of these programs’ theme music I get sprung. Yeah, I’m weird. And don’t get me started on Sylvia Poggioli! Every time she speaks I go weak in the knees. I do love my ... More About: Society , China , Martin Luther King , General , Current Events
Kucinich Reads Again
2007-12-04 06:56:00 I’m suggesting that Dennis Kucinich dole out the $8.99 over at talltall.com for a pair of shoe lift inserts. I’d even chip in for the S&H. Maybe if my favorite wee presidential contender were just a wee bit taller people would pay a wee bit more well-deserved attention to the guy. I think he and Hillary ... More About: Society , Politics , Security , Government , National Security
Fuzzy Wuzzy Mohammed
2007-11-30 23:49:00 I’d bet money (if I had any) that schoolteacher Gillian Gibbons will probably think twice before deferring to her young and oh-so-naive pupils for the final decision at any future toy-naming ceremonies. In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if she drops this particular classroom activity from the curriculum altogether. She tried it once, which I’m sure ... More About: Society , Religion , International , World , General
Pets Yea, Gay Partners Nay
2007-11-28 06:57:00 Last August the bosses, aka the Board of Trustees, at Florida’s Palm Beach Community College came to the conclusion that it was simply not appropriate to extend health care benefits to the domestic partners of its homo worker bees. Despite the fact that it wouldn’t have cost the school one additional thin dime, and that ... More About: Society , Pets , Health Care , General , Issues
Firefighters To Sound Alarm On Terror
2007-11-26 06:07:00 I’m surprised that Team Bush didn’t think of this one sooner. Or maybe they did, and simply decided that it would be best to allow adequate passage of time following the big nine-eleven-aught-one calamity for a bit of that national firefighters-as-gods fervor to fade before redrafting their job descriptions, so as not to besmirch their ... More About: Politics , Security , Government , Terror , National Security
The Anti-Bush Bridge Brigade
2007-11-24 08:39:00 In case you haven’t heard, the United States Bridge Federation bigwigs have now made nice with the players on the US Venice Cup world championship bridge team. Yep, there truly is a federation, there really is a cup, and we actually have a team. (Who knew? Live and learn, I guess.) With such sharply honed ... More About: Society , Politics , Bush , Government , Issues
May And Flower, Plumped And Pardoned
2007-11-22 00:07:00 It’s a tradition. Every year the leader of this great nation (our homeland, one might even say), with great pomp, grants one lucky turkey a presidential pardon. It’s “turkey squared” now, though, our grace having been extended to favor two, count ‘em, two fortunate fowl, a winner and a runner-up. Just in case, I suppose. Anyway, ... More About: Society , General , Issues , Offbeat , Flower
CNN?s Debate Debacle
2007-11-20 20:51:00 I watched the rebroadcast of last week’s CNN Democratic debate over the weekend. (Why, I don’t know … other than I have no social life.) In watching the encore presentation, it seemed even more apparent that the audience participation segment was nothing more than a blatantly scripted sham. Pathetically obvious, and not particularly well-directed by ... More About: Politics , Government , Issues , Debate , Election 2008
Time Not On Kucinich?s Side
2007-11-17 23:26:00 Promises, promises. CNN moderator Wolf “Grizzly Adams” Blitzer at the Democratic debate in Las Vegas the other night: “Everyone’s going to get time tonight. Don’t worry. We got a lot of time. Go ahead.” And later, just to make it perfectly clear, “Let me just point out, everyone’s going to have plenty of time tonight … ... More About: Politics , Government , Time , Issues , Patriotism
Banning Baggy Britches
2007-11-16 02:02:00 Continuing what has become a national trend, more and more cities are passing ordinances and laws prohibiting baggy pants. Actually, “baggy” is a misnomer, because the apparently-nothing-better-to-do-mastermin ds behind these proposals really don’t care so much about the bagginess. Nah. In actuality the plan is to establish and enforce proper waistline etiquette. Even the fellow to ... More About: Society , General , Offbeat
Iran, The Gay-Free Zone
2007-11-14 01:24:00 Remember Iran ian President Ahmadinejad’s recent homily and Q&A campus-session at Columbia University? Mahmoud delivered quite the performance for students and faculty. Crazy people can be entertaining. If nothing else, his much-publicized dissertation almost makes fellow world leader George Bush appear to be somewhat sane, rational and levelheaded. Almost. Okay, nah, that might be too ... More About: Religion , International , World , Free
Happy Veterans Day, Mr. President
2007-11-12 08:48:00 Today is Veterans Day, a day to pay homage to the servicemen and servicewomen who have fought and sacrificed life and limb to make this nation the shining beacon of freedom and hope that is America. God bless, and hats off to the brave and willing, both past and present, who have proven their mettle ... More About: Society , Politics , Government , Iraq , Military
Ron Paul Redux
2007-11-10 11:22:00 My political archrival and commentor Mark Karr submitted this noteworthy link, in response to my previous Cheney-impeachment post. I’m glad he did. It was, in fact, a fine footnote to the article, justifying my expressed disenchantment with my own Democratic party. Of course, I could counter with similar switchback rhetoric from the rival side, too. ... More About: Society , Politics , Government , Iraq , World
Sturmgeist And YouTube
2007-11-09 06:27:00 Is YouTube guilty of being an accessory to mass murder? Depends upon whom you ask. Some within the blogosphere are claiming that at least partial accountability should be laid at YouTube’s virtual feet for the Jokela High School shooting rampage in Finland yesterday, executed by one Pekka-Eric Auvisen [pictured left], aka Sturmgeist89 to YouTube fans. ... More About: Society , Youtube , Internet , Technology , World
Impeaching Cheney With A Little Elfin Magic
2007-11-07 09:18:00 Just the other day I was bitching about my pussy-whipped fellow Dems for not taking any action to depose the despots in DC. Then today, enter the little man with the big balls. I’ll eat crow when I have to. So I’ll admit, I have on more than one occasion been rather unkind to the diminutive ... More About: Society , Politics , Government , Magic , General
Oh, The Humanity!
2007-11-05 21:18:00 Three hundred and three million plus. That’s the government’s guesstimate of the current population here in the United States. That’s a lot of people! I certainly hope, though, that the geek squads at Census Central are aware of the results of the study done by Randy Pausch’s fellow professors Paul Fischbeck and David Gerard of ... More About: General , Issues , Offbeat , Humanity
Bush-Cheney?s Psychosis Diagnosis
2007-11-03 02:31:00 Prez George W. Bush and Veep Dick B. Cheney clearly need to be institutionalized. I’m not a psychiatrist, nor do I play one on TV, but it doesn’t take doc smarts to make that diagnosis. The behavioral symptoms of the two-headed monster obviously indicate clinical psychosis. As summarily defined by our friends Merriam and Webster: ... More About: Society , Politics , Government , Iraq
Boo Humbug
2007-11-02 01:01:00 Halloween annoys me, thank God that’s over. A herd of fat-assed rugrats in plus-size costumes begging door to door for the last thing in the world with which they should be gorging their pieholes. These days they don’t even limit the panhandling to their own neighborhoods, no! There are apparently simply not enough calories on a ... More About: Society , General , Offbeat
Democratic Debate, Center Stage
2007-10-31 07:35:00 As I write this, we’re taking the first of three bathroom breaks scheduled for tonight’s two-hour Democratic debate. Even presidential candidates apparently have to occassionally pee. Who knew? They’re done now, I hear Tim Russert asking the next question. I’ll be back. All righty then, we’re at break number two. So far, so good. What is ... More About: Politics , Government , General , Issues
FEMA?s Broken Leg
More articles from this author:2007-10-28 22:38:00 “Break a leg,” the standard maxim typically said to actors before they go on stage to perform. I don’t know where that came from, and apparently nobody knows for sure, or how it became the phrase of choice for wishing the performer the best of luck. Why not “Drop Dead”? Whatever the source, it ought ... More About: Politics , Government , General , Issues , Natural Disasters 1, 2 |
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