Modern Music: Uniting the World Through Postmodernism
What else could unite Trekkies, the Israeli Defense Force, and the Simpsons, all on the same day (honestly, the Simpsons one is the only one I came across because I was looking at the others; the other two were purely coincidentally and nearly sequentially discovered)
And, you know, just cuz, here’s the original Ke$ha “Tik Tok”:
Honestly, [...]
Categories: Entertainment
Checking In On How My War Is Doing
Hey it’s Saturday morning! Time to ruin your mood! Same bat time, same bat columnist…
Macleans – Mark Steyn: Where ‘nice’ Obama has got us Why would Ahmadinejad take him seriously when even Karzai flips him the finger?
The toppling of the Taliban was an operation conducted with extraordinary improvised ingenuity and a very light U.S. [...]
Categories: War and Peace
My Phone Makes Grown Nerds Cry, Does Yours?
Watch this video. Soldiers! AND babies! I defy you to get at LEAST a little misty-eyed! And I hadn’t even THOUGHT of the deaf people!
Apple <3
Peter says they played this video at the keynote, and at the sign language part everyone erupted in applause. And really. Yay!
Categories: Electronics
Northern Ireland Again
Yikes:
The Sunday Times – Return to Bloody Sunday The authors investigated the shootings for The Sunday Times. They reveal how their findings became pivotal to the inquiry. Peter Pringle and Philip Jacobson
On Tuesday at 8am, a small band of lawyers, among them Britain’s best and brightest, will enter the Guildhall in Londonderry under what [...]
Categories: War and Peace
In Which They Went To The Parade
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXIV
I Used to Have a Tape With This Song Sung by Disney Characters
And I don’t think I’ve heard this song since I heard Mickey Mouse MC-ing it on a drive to Canada when I was about 8 years old.
The Armed Forces Medley, which I’m just getting to now from Memorial Day:
I wonder if they still make that tape.
Curtsy: RC2’s Google Reader.
Categories: War and Peace
Political Correctness and New Age Mumbo Jumbo: How the North Koreans Totally Play Us
National Post – Pressure to bolster North Korean leader makes war inevitable, analyst says
“It’s actually a racist worldview that should be seen on the far right of the ideological spectrum and which is actually completely incompatible with the basic ideas of Marx and Lenin,” said Mr. Meyers [professor of international studies at Dongseo [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
US Soldiers in Afghanistan Doing Lady Gaga
Telephone Remake
The YouTube description:
This is a couple guys located in afghanistan, that re-made the music video by Lady Gaga….Telephone. Prepare yourself for a fantastical journey. Right now this is the temporary version, we have more scenes to cut, and edit, however with guys always on mission it is harder to [...]
Categories: Entertainment
Fighting Back Prevents Injury
Via The Corner:
AP – Dutch sidestep EU red tape to rescue German ship
Gaining fast on the pirates who had seized a German freighter, Dutch naval captain Col. Hans Lodder had no time to waste on bureaucracy. Sidestepping the command of the European Union’s anti-piracy task force, he went instead to his own government [...]
Categories: War and Peace
This Isn’t Political At ALL
The Times – Camberley churches protest at mosque that will tower over Sandhurst
Churches have joined together to protest against plans for a mosque that would tower over the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, with one minister describing it as a “supremacist statement” for Islam. A collective comprising every church in [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
More Than Crazy, Perhaps
An infographic:
North Korea: The Craziest Country In the World
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
John Babcock, Aged 109
National Post – Last known Canadian First World War veteran dies, aged 109
Categories: War and Peace
American Decline, Where Neither the Second Amendment Nor the Caliphate Can Save Us
Mark Steyn – THE SEDUCTIONS OF DECLINE
I don’t even know where to begin quoting this (RC2, who is probably better at hiding her straight razors than I, quoted it fairly extensively – and thoughtfully! – here, and as testament to the resilience of her state of mind, she manages to wade through a similarly-themed VDH [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
Oh Good: North Korea Is Even Weirder AND More Despicable Than We Thought
Slate – A Nation of Racist Dwarfs Kim Jong-il’s regime is even weirder and more despicable than you thought. By Christopher Hitchens
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
