Cricket Correspondents All Hands
If any of you gents want to explain to us the game fixing scandal — for dummies — do, do.
Categories: Sports and Leisure
I Wanna Retweet This SO BAD
From @wheatweeds:
Dang. Now we have to let him put it in Manhattan. http://americandigest.org/Bomb%20Mot.jpg
If I RT that, heads would explode. Which would be great, but I’m chickening out anyway.
Categories: War and Peace
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXLV
The Race Card is Maxed Out:
The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon – Thurs 11p / 10c
Categories: Politics
Ba’ath House
This amuses the heck outta me:
Greg Gutfeld of Fox News Channel and The Daily Gut has proposed the best response yet to Park51, a.k.a. Cordoba House, the 13-story “community center” and mosque two blocks away from Ground Zero: “I am planning to build and open the first gay bar that caters not only [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s Unhuman, Inhumane Fate
The Times – ‘Stop the stoning’
The execution of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, who has already spent five years in prison and received 99 lashes for alleged adultery, would “disgust and appal the watching world”, the British Government declared, as Sir David Hare, Robert Redford, Emma Thompson, Juliette Binoche, Katherine Hamnett, the fashion designer, [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
The Jones Act and Creative Problem Solving in the Gulf Oil Spill
Weekly Standard – Oil Messed Up Anger grows along the Gulf Coast at the Obama administration’s pathetic response to the largest oil spill in U.S. history. By Winston Groom (author of Forrest Gump, among others)
It has been apparent from the outset that the Obama administration had no wish to be responsible for fixing this [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
Putting It In American Terms
I’ve always thought that the FBI Wanted posters for Osama bin Laden should skip the photo of the man and have a picture of what $25 million will get you.
WANTED USAMA BIN LADEN MURDER OF U.S. NATIONALS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; CONSPIRACY TO MURDER U.S. NATIONALS OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
So, Don’t Tell Me This AlGore Sex Poodle Thing is REAL
The two freakiest parts:
The accuser said Gore maneuvered her into the bedroom. His iPod docking station was there, he told her, and he wanted her to listen to “Dear Mr. President,” a lachrymose attack on George W. Bush by the singer Pink.
And:
Finally she got away. Later, she talked to friends, [...]
Categories: Politics
From Helen to Troy
Thomas Friedman, who used to write the 411 column for Fox News but who now has a blog for the Hollywood Reporter, writes on Helen Thomas’ resignation:
The New York Times, which did not even mention what was going on previously, now reports the story online. The Times has simply ignored [...]
Categories: Business & Media
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXV
Half, on Helen Thomas (and face):
Per Dad…. she’d make a train take a dirt road.
Oh man. Oh man.
Categories: Business & Media
Of “Niggardly” and “Black Holes”
NAACP calls Hallmark graduation card racist
Curtsy: RC2.
The NAACP: Always astonishing us with their sophisticated intellectualism.
Categories: People and Current Events
Beware Government Employees Named Elizabeth
Remember Elizabeth Becton? Of “Call me Liz” fame? Now we have Elizabeth Peuler:
Under intense media scrutiny, at least a dozen federal agencies have taken part in the spill response, making decision-making slow, conflicted and confused, as they sought to apply numerous federal statutes. In one stark example of government disputes, [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships
…to somewhere (Germany? Poland? Perhaps she wishes it were so?), Roger Friedman (formerly of FoxNews.com) gets an interview with Rabbi David Nesenoff, who got that video out of Our Helen:
Rabbi David Nesenoff is a journalist and filmmaker from Long Island who has his advanced degree from the Jewish Theological Seminar. He went to [...]
Categories: Business & Media
Just As You Always Suspected: The First Minister Hates You
Telegraph Blogs – Daniel Hannan: What’s the single worst aspect of Gordon Brown’s ‘bigoted woman’ remarks?
Is it the duplicity – the contrast between Gordon Brown’s public persona and the thin-skinned, irritable, snarling inner self? Is it the haughtiness – the PM’s dismissal of views that conflict with those of the [...]
Categories: Politics
Bigotgate!
**FULL VERSION**Gordon Brown Caught Calling Grandmother ‘Bigoted’ 28/04/2010
I’ve seen somebody say that this (that is, the bit after the Prime Minister got in the car and left his mic on, proceeding to insult a sweet little old grandmother and Labour voter) was “leaked” by a journalist for Sky, insinuating he’s just a toll for News [...]
Categories: Politics
