Mortie, Mortie: He's no shorty, Mortie.
Low-carb diets are killing Krispy Kreme. Shareholders are suing senior management for misleading them about the company’s direction. No-carb donuts to follow?
Will the Silicon Valley become a place in which executives live in the States, and the employees live overseas?
It’s official: Donald Rumsfeld needs therapy, and so do most of the proponents of the war in Iraq.
Over 28 high-ranking government officials have fake college degrees.
“I’m always amazed when I hear people say that George Bush — he’s a great leader, and I wonder where can one find a drug that would make one so delusional.”
– Lewis Black, from ‘Black on Broadway’
When someone asks you if you’re a foreign journalist, just say no.
Do BMW owners have more sex? Yes. I drive a Toyota, alas.
What a wonderful place for a Pink Martini Wild Kingdom Rhumba: The Woodland Park Zoo’s ZooTunes 2004.
Al Gore is creating an independent cable television network, a news network geared for 18-34 year olds.
What happens when you expand a Pac Man video game to the size of Manhattan, and have one person dress up as Pac Man, and four others dress up as the ghosts from the game? Why, you’d have PacManhattan.
The Washington Post opines that the red and blue states are rapidly becoming purple states — in effect, “The once-hardy species of conservative Democrats — so numerous in the 1980s they had a name, ‘Reagan Democrats’ — is now on the endangered list, along with the liberal ‘Rockefeller Republicans.'” Ideological divisions are now in line with party divisions.
A message from Pat Robertson and the “Vote No on Jesus” campaign.
“Jesus’ environmental advocacy resembles that of your common, everyday hippy: He has criticized our reliance on fossil fuels and insists that businesses adopt unfair and impractical pollution prevention measures. He also goes barefoot to public events and has yet to shower or shave as far as I can tell. Messiah or not, there is no room for grungy tree-huggers in the White House.”
– Pat Robertson’s “Vote No on Jesus” campaign, from McSweeney’s
Congress passes a “doomsday” bill, which calls for special elections within 45 days if 100 or more members of Congress were killed, deciding the issue of continuity first brought up during the Cold War.
The Memory Hole contains hundreds of photos released from Freedom of Information Act retrievals, including those of soldiers’ coffins.
Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush’s Middle East policy, writes The Guardian.
And just discovered: Commercial Alert and the Organic Consumers Association report that “Consumers Are Fed Up with Corporate Advertising & Manipulation”.
