Politics – Page 12

May 21, 2004April 15, 2008

Nude rollercoastering!

Percy Schmeiser, a Canadian farmer, lost his Supreme Court battle with Monsanto. Monsanto’s genetically-engineered seeds blew onto his property from a neighboring farm, and the agribusiness giant sued him for patent infringement.

SBC fights outsourcing and settles strike dispute — maybe they can provide California residents with reasonably-priced phone service.

80 British students broke the world’s record for nude rollercoastering. Strangely tied into comfort with the global warming issue, Vladimir Putin expressed that Russia is leaning towards signing the Kyoto Protocol.

Tony Randall, my inspiration for cleanliness from his Felix Unger character on the Odd Couple, left this world.

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May 13, 2004April 15, 2008

Therapy

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’

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May 12, 2004April 15, 2008

Who, me?

When someone asks you if you’re a foreign journalist, just say no.

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April 30, 2004March 31, 2008

Purple is the new red, blue

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.

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April 24, 2004March 30, 2008

A message from Pat Robertson

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

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April 23, 2004March 30, 2008

The Memory Hole

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.

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April 22, 2004March 30, 2008

Or is advertising telling us to think that?

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”.

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April 21, 2004March 30, 2008

Plan of Attack

Bob Woodward’s new book Plan of Attack follows in a long line of recent tell-all accounts of the months leading up to the second Iraq war, bringing new light to Bush’s single-mindedness

“You know you’re going to be owning this place?”
– Colin Powell to George Bush, regarding the consequences of invading Iraq

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April 12, 2004March 30, 2008

E in WWE Enron?

Jeffrey Skilling of Enron in a drunken brawl. And then two California runaways diguised as rural Canadians were found — what’s strange is one of them is called Tom Green, but it’s not the comedian.

Offshoring is bringing doubters of its effectiveness for a company’s bottom line, which complain about a lack of available programmers. Not so, says Fast Company.

Democrats are better for the economy, and Wall St should take note, says the Christian Science Monitor.

MSNBC opines that the housing market is about to go “Pop!”, if interest rates start rising and people stop refinancing.

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April 11, 2004March 30, 2008

Marx in Soho

I read Howard Zinn’s “Marx in Soho” during my last semester, and was surprised to find out that Seattle’s Asian Art Museum will be performing the play at the end of May.

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