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[ Comments Off ]Posted on September 12, 2008 by admin in Politics
Friday, September 12th, 2008Sure your vote counts…if it gets counted.
 Attorney General and “Most Worshipful Grand Master” J.B. Van Hollen of Wisconsin |
I often joke that the reason we have so many election problems in America is that we’ve been so busy bringing democracy to places like Iraq that we just plain ran out of it. But I really think that if people would shut up about what kind of sunglasses the running mate of that plane-crashing, doddering, grumpy guy from Arizona is wearing for a minute, they might notice another election is on its way to being hijacked. Let’s start with the guy in the picture at left (whose outfit would be set off nicely with the addition of a fez, in my opinion). That’s Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen of Wisconsin, known affectionately by his peers as Most Worshipful Grand Master. He’s suing the state of Wisconsin’s election accountability board, a move that some suggest could lead to a “…ballot-counting frenzy similar to Florida’s after the 2000 presidential race”. This is the same guy who went a little bit chicken little in 2006, claiming that terrorists were training in Wisconsin. It’s pretty easy to find stories like these, although you’ll hear little in the corporate media. For instance, Michigan Republicans are zeroing in on African American voters by disallowing votes from addresses that are on record as being in foreclosure. In Mississippi, they’re hiding things at the bottom of the ballot . This kind of stuff will be going on quietly all over the place; that’s just democracy at work. The kind of thing that drives me crazy is how Diebold brazenly got away with manipulating the vote in 2004, is finally admitting their machines were faulty, and still no-one seems to care. If you DO care, check out resources like BlackBoxVoting.org. They have tools like the Black Box Voting Tool Kit, which outlines the Top 5 Things You Can Do To Protect Election 2008. Happy chadding!
The World Ended And All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt
[ Comments Off ]Posted on September 11, 2008 by admin in Editorial & Opinion
Thursday, September 11th, 2008And a big Hadron that won’t go away
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve misspelled “Hadron” to obvious humorous effect. Apparently I’m not the only one (the only surprising thing in that link being that Google’s smart-ass spell-check doesn’t ask if you mean “Hadron”). In any case, the good news (for now) is that the Large Hadron Collider was fired up yesterday, and we didn’t all get sucked into a black hole and die. Or did we? This blogger from the future has a different view. Think about it. How can we know for sure that we didn’t get instantly sucked into an alternate reality yesterday? Science fiction movies always makes this sort of thing look dramatic, but maybe it just quietly happens. I’m watching my surroundings closely for subtle changes, just to be sure, but if you’re accepting for now that we’re safe, here’s your bloody “the end of the world came and went and all I got was this stupid t-shirt” t-shirt. Unfortunately it’s too late for this Indian girl. So sad. Anyway, for more end of the world goodness, check out Apocalypse now? 30 days when the world didn’t end from the TimesOnline UK.
More Fun Than A Clown on Fire
[ Comments Off ]Posted on September 10, 2008 by admin in Popular Media
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Or a KKK rally. Or a political convention. Or Killing Kittens…
It seems video games offer a little something to offend everyone these days. I ran across a link to Muslim Massacre yesterday, and my immediate reaction was “Oh my God, how pointlessly offensive, I wonder when the fatwa will be issued?”. Which more or less remains my response. But in the interest of equal time, let’s make sure everyone has something to get offended about. First of all, I should point out that Muslim Massacre is Windows Only, so since the site goads you with “Don’t be a liberal p*ssy! Download this game now!”, I guess we’ve covered Mac users too. For those who are most offended by that first link, we have Bush Shootout (hell, who couldn’t enjoy that one) or WTC Defender. Just laugh maniacally while you let the planes crash instead of shooting them. Isn’t that what the White House did? For “Best Marketing Plan Award”, there’s Virginia Tech Rampage, whose creator said he’d pull the game if enough donations were made (much more clever than Super Columbine Massacre, where apparently you just shoot kids). And still sporting a fairly high offensiveness quotient, but a little less bloody, we have Operation Pedopriest in which you’re asked by the Vatican to cover up pedophilia among priests, and So You Think You Can Drive, Mel? , in which you help the man who brought us the phrase “sugar tits” avoid state troopers and rabbis while gathering bottles of tequila.
RNC 9/11 Tribute vs 1984 “Two-Minutes Hate”
[ Comments Off ]Posted on September 8, 2008 by admin in Politics
Monday, September 8th, 2008On the left is the 9/11 tribute from last week’s Republican National Convention. On the right is the “Two-Minutes Hate” scene from the film version of Orwell’s 1984. Which one do you think will be more effective in directing the proles’ hatred at our imagined enemy?
| On the left is the 9/11 tribute from last week’s Republican National Convention. On the right is the “Two-Minutes Hate” scene from the film version of Orwell’s 1984. Which one do you think will be more effective in directing the proles’ hatred at our imagined enemy? | |
Father of Bristol Palin’s Baby Goes Public
[ Comments Off ]Posted on September 7, 2008 by admin in Politics
Sunday, September 7th, 2008Hey! I didn’t say BABYDADDY. Oop, there it is…
Why do McCain campaigns always have black baby rumours attached to them? If you haven’t seen it, check out the video at left, in which a young man named Kevin claims to be Bristol Palin’s baby’s father (please note my professional restraint in avoiding the term “babydaddy”). In spite of the fact that this may very well be a hoax, it’s worth watching for several reasons: 1.) Unmitigated tabloid entertainment value. 2.) An audition tape. If this guy’s lying, he deserves a shot at a real acting career. 3.) It’s Sunday morning, and Meet The Press sucks since Tim Russert passed away. 4.) I’m violating my unwritten policy of not using the word “Palin” unless referring to Michael, so you could at least have the decency to watch things I recommend. 5.) The dude says he’s voting for Obama.