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Beckless Endangerment
Posted on February 19, 2010 | No CommentsSeriously? "Beckless Endangerment"? Is that the best I could come up with? -
Live Action Role Protesting
Posted on February 13, 2010 | No CommentsWhatever you're doing right now, is it really more fascinating than Palestinian and Israeli human-rights protesters dressed up like characters from Avatar having tear gas fired at them? I didn't think so. -
“O Vobis Praeteritos Referam Si Ego Annos” — after Vergil
Posted on January 11, 2010 | 5 CommentsYou know what's wrong with young people today? Too much not being in war. -
The Trouble with Muslims
Posted on January 11, 2010 | 3 CommentsOne of my naive fantasies is that New Zealanders are a pretty decent lot, and that while its trans-Tasman cousin may be the international home of racism, New Zealand is bit more mature than all that. Oh, sure, we've got fringe nuts like the National Front, but they're exceptions that prove the rule. And we do have a certain undercurrent of racial prejudice about the natives - but it's that nice, normal, acceptable level, like the background radiation of cellphone towers. Can't do much about it, not ideal, but we all seem to have agreed somewhere along the line not to talk about it. -
Beck
Posted on October 8, 2009 | No CommentsDid Glenn Beck Rape and Murder a Young Girl in 1990? (dot com) -
Less Lethal
Posted on September 28, 2009 | No CommentsThe G20 protests in Pittsburgh over the weekend probably weren’t as large-scale as the organisers hoped. That didn’t stop the Pittsburgh police (and the military, in umarked cars?) from responding with force. “Less lethal” force, according to police messages. They included OC gas (pepper spray),... -
Sometimes it takes a lie to tell the truth.
Posted on September 23, 2009 | No CommentsThe Yes Men (posted on previously) have a new film coming out, and it looks like it's going to fucking rule. -
The Most Gagged Person in the History of the US
Posted on September 23, 2009 | No CommentsSibel Edmonds, the FBI translator who was fired for raising concerns about corruption, has now gone on the record in an interview in November’s American Conservative. Fortunately, time-traveling pixies have come back from next month and put the interview online. Here’s a snippet: GIRALDI: So... -
You MADE me?! You made ME?!
Posted on September 23, 2009 | No CommentsThe leaked FBI transcript between Rahm Emanuel and Rod Blagojevich (pronounced “Blagojevich”) is highly entertaining. BLAGO: Hey, come on Rahm, let’s not act like I’m a stranger here. EMANUEL: Did I call you a stranger? If I thought you were a stranger, you think I’d... -
Drinking Liberally: Lewis Holden
Posted on September 17, 2009 | 8 CommentsA review of the Republican Movement unfair for both its brevity and lack of befuckedness. -
The floor is yours. Brief me.
Posted on September 10, 2009 | 2 CommentsCharlie Sheen interviews Obama on conspiracy theories - IN HIS IMAGINATION AND RYAN IS A GODDAM FOOL.
