Archives: 2006 August
No Child’s Behind Left
August 25th, 2006, 1 Comment
The question “What’s the matter with Kansas?” is often asked by US liberals. Perhaps what they should ask is ‘what’s the matter with the religious right?’ Because it’s not confined to Kansas… Pastor, his family accused of molesting children Wife accused of assisting in religious ritual, prosecutor says WASHBURN, Mo. – The minister of a [...]
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August 24th, 2006, No Comments
By Eck, Gromit, That’s a Funny-Looking Sheep. That’s one unhappy looking cat. I’d be pissed off too if i were the poor love, since he or she also bears a striking resemblance to a feline Bin Laden. Read More… Wallace and Gromit, Sean the Sheep, Sean of the Dead, Fancy Dress, Feline transmorphism, Cats, Cats [...]
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August 24th, 2006, No Comments
Milky Milky. Linky Linky. British European Parliament member treated as a terrorist at EU airports. Tsk. Shouldn’t’ve been traveling while Asian. Yes, segregation is indeed back, live and in colour – CBS has a new series of the execrable Survivor, but this time they’re pitting different ethnic groups or ‘tribes,’ as they charmingly put it, [...]
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August 23rd, 2006, No Comments
Give ‘Em The Old One-Two Think Progress looks to be taking a leaf out of The Independent’s playbook: 35. Number of words the current issue of TIME magazine devotes to Judge Anna Diggs Taylor?s ruling that President Bush?s warrantless domestic wiretapping program is unconstitutional. 1,109. The number of words in the same issue on the [...]
It’s All About The Tubesteak
August 23rd, 2006, No Comments
The Guardian’s Oliver Burkeman reports in G2 on the Burger King Quad Stacker and the recent US phenomenon of ‘politically incorrect’ fast food. In a generally interesting post Burkeman takes several paragraphs to expound on received wisdom from fast food industry insiders and food pyschologists on portion size expectations, before he gets to the money [...]
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August 23rd, 2006, No Comments
Meta Hari …or Seduce Your Readers. This excellent article from 2003 at How To Save the World popped up in the referrer log today. Oddly enough we’re thinking about a full-on redesign as it’s way past time, so the reminder was very timely. Prog Gold’s look and feel is certainly very dated and the content [...]
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August 22nd, 2006, No Comments
What A Bloody Waste. UPDATE: Read that, then read this, then go find a wall to punch, because you’ll want to. Read more: Iraq war, Women, Feminism, US armed forces
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August 22nd, 2006, No Comments
“Some of My Best Friends are Ferengi…” Apparently those imaginary television characters the Ferengi are really the Jews, which obviously means that Star Trek’s writers are anti-semitic. Oh dear. The Protocols Of The Elders Of The Ferengi by Gavin Edwards Star Trek, in all its incarnations, invites its audience to consider alien race narratives as [...]
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August 21st, 2006, No Comments
Comment of The Day At Digby’s place, in a thread discussing Madonna’s on-stage ‘crucifixion’,the Danish Mohammed cartoons and rightwing hypocrisy: Maybe on her next tour, Madonna can stimulate herself with fluorescent multi-colored sex toys shaped like crosses, crescents, and stars of David while in the background a chorus of eunochs with enormous nipple piercings burn [...]
