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[ Comments Off ]Posted on July 11, 2008 by admin in Music
Friday, July 11th, 2008Sex education has never been so danceable.
I’m violating my own rule against posting YouTube videos on the main page, but I feel strongly that you’ll benefit by learning about “weeners & vageeners” from Jamie Lynn’s Reproduction Rap. Who knows how long before this video gets pulled, so I made a WMV file you can download here.
Ian Gray for President
[ Comments Off ]Posted on July 11, 2008 by admin in Politics
Friday, July 11th, 2008On the Internet, no-one knows you’re a dog.
I’ve been keeping this under wraps for some time because I didn’t want to look like a fool if things didn’t work out. This is going to startle some of you, but the campaign’s picking up a lot of momentum, so I thought I’d go public after being featured in the News3Online piece below. A special thanks to Diana for making so much of this happen…
Detroit: Turning Fords into Plowshares?
[ Comments Off ]Posted on July 11, 2008 by admin in Clean & Green, Lifestyle & Culture
Friday, July 11th, 2008A non-profit called “Urban Farming” has innovative ideas for sustainable urban renewal.
Having grown up in the shadow of Detroit’s Beirut-like inner-city crumbling buildings, it’s exciting for me to find out that someone’s working on an innovative and green idea for re-vitalizing parts of the city. Urban Farming is a non-profit whose mission is to “eradicate hunger while increasing diversity, motivating youth and seniors and optimizing the production of unused land for food and alternative energy”. Sounds to me like a great prescription for many of Detroit’s problems. This BBC News piece has a nice overview, and Urban Farming’s media page has many more press links.
Do Cow Farts Cause Global Warming?
[ 1 Comment ]Posted on July 10, 2008 by admin in Clean & Green
Thursday, July 10th, 2008Surely there’s a more humane way to measure cows’ gaseous emissions.
One of the joys of not having an editor is that one can choose to use phrases like “cow fart” in your headlines. That being said, I think I’m going to put off buying that Prius and stop worrying about my carbon footprint until agribusiness takes care of its methane assprint. Who would’ve guessed that a single cow produces 800 to 1,000 litres (no mention of whether that’s gaseous or liquid) of “emissions” every day? And I have to say (after seeing the photo at left) that there must be a better way to measure these life-threatening farts and burps. The next time PETA goes on a save-the-furry-animals rampage, I’m going to have to stand on my soapbox and scream: “WHAT ABOUT THE COWS???” If you really want to learn more about bovine buttprints, watch this Reuters News clip on YouTube.
Hottest New Redneck Trend: Gay Cage Fighting
[ Comments Off ]Posted on July 8, 2008 by admin in Lifestyle & Culture, Popular Media
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008Sacha Baron Cohen creates an uproar in Arkansas with his kissing cage fighters.
Forget this weekend’s NASCAR schedule, we got us some Gay Cage Fights to go to. Some Arkansas cage fighting fans were a little disappointed last month when the fighters they were watching ripped each other’s clothes off and kissed instead of beating each other senseless like good rednecks in cages should. “Disappointed” might be putting it lightly; they apparently began to throw chairs and beers at the ring as the frisky cage fighters made their getaway. It turns out the whole event was staged by Sacha Baron Cohen for an upcoming film project. The Smoking Gun has many more details here. If you find things like gay cage fighting intriguing, be sure to see yesterday’s post about Napoleon’s penis. I just like typing that. Napoleon’s penis.