Category: Politics

I’m a big fan of Apple and its products and third-party furniture spinoffs, but when will they green up their manufacturing process?

Why does health insurance have to have attitude?

Mr (Ted) Turner … said it was “not necessarily a bad thing” that CNN and other news networks were behind Fox in the ratings. Adolf Hitler was more popular in Germany in the early 1930s than people that were running against him”.
Former AOL/Time Warner chairman Ted Turner compares Fox to Nazi propaganda

A very cool set of Yellow Pages, although I’m not sure I’d have wanted to be the photographer who rode in the van all day to get these photos.

A horrible US remake of BBC hit The Office is making the rounds on the Internet today (d’oh, link removed).

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SiliconValley.com positions Tivo as on its way to becoming the most successful failure in history. While my Tivo is already paying for itself with its lifetime subscription, I wonder if its too soon to be making that prediction. If they do go south, I predict they’ll be purchased by a competitor with the leverage to market a product with tremendous brand identity. They’re solvent for another year.

There will be no more Powells in the Bush administration come March, now that FCC chairman Michael Powell is leaving.

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The Norwegians say Dubya was saluting Satan — I just remember that in high school the same sign was used to claim allegiance to both Rush and REO Speedwagon on alternate days.

Former Washington State Governor Albert Rossellini (the route 520 bridge was named after him) still kicking at 95: and usually compared to former Chicago Mayor Richard “Boss” Daley.

Say you spent 18 years of your life perfecting something, and then someone forgets to activate that something, rendering that something useless.

Nice to see Sabrina Lloyd and Rob Morrow working again in the series “NUMB3RS“. Will the math-equations-solving-crimes premise work? Maybe.

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It’s not often I read about a former employer in a national magazine, highlighted in a feature article in this month’s Washington Monthly. Of course, I worked a couple of summers through college doing “design” at Arthur Andersen, long before the troubles.

First it was Tinky-Winky. Now radical right-wing group Focus on the Family outs Spongebob Squarepants.

And then there’s the equally vocal Parents Television Council, a group responsible for 99.9% of FCC complaints.

What [FCC chair Michael] Powell did not reveal—apparently because he was unaware—was the source of the complaints. According to a new FCC estimate obtained by Mediaweek, nearly all indecency complaints in 2003—99.8 percent—were filed by the Parents Television Council, an activist group.
99.8% of 240,000 complaints, that is

Slightly disturbing VW car bomber video.

Speaking of slightly disturbing, why not plop a Visa card down on this work entitled “Mortie in my Thoughts.”

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A BBC World Service poll finds that more than half of those surveyed believe the US has made the world a more dangerous place.

Was it a real laptop that had no insides? No, it was way better than we ever imagined. It was a real iBook box, with a bunch of Village Voices for weight and the greatest piece of shit ever made. A fake laptop made of gray garbage bag and cardboard, spray-painted platinum silver and finished with A HAND-PAINTED APPLE LOGO DONE IN WHITE-OUT.
Never buy a Powerbook from a crack addict

SpazOutNY contemplates Nostradamus’ predictions on the Bush presidency, and Everything I Need to Know I learned from Iron Maiden.

MonkeyMethods has photos of Bill Gates from a Teen Beat Photospread, 1983.

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WA man finds that he doesn’t have a toothache, but a nail in his head.

Privatization or personal accounts? Bush isn’t sure in this conversation with Washington Post reporters.

Seymour Hersh reports that the U.S. has Iran in their sights. Maybe we’ll use the Badonkadonk. They will not be using a gay aphordisiac weapon, however.

Meanwhile, The New York Times reports on events in Ukraine prior to the presidential election that narrowly avoided a crackdown.

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Martin Luther King’s less-well-known speech, I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.

Was that Ali G causing a near rodeo in Virginia? Representatives from the show could not confirm that.

It was only later – after the man riled up the audience with comments like “may George W. Bush drink the blood of every man, woman and child in Iraq” – that Rowe figured out he had been duped. The performer also told everyone to be seated before launching into a butchered version of “The Star-Spangled Banner” that ended with the words: “your home in the grave.”
Bobby Rowe, rodeo producer, about a possible Ali G performance at his rodeo

Perhaps the Urban Dictionary can figure this one out.

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Fortune magazine wisely asks if an MFA is the new MBA. I’m not sure if this is one of those emails that gets passed around the email every couple of years, but if it’s not true, it’s an unbelievable bit of Photoshopping.

The actors who dub the Mexican version of Simpsons are involved in a labor dispute — management wants to replace them with cheaper actors.

A creepy and beautiful BBC advertisement about iPod market saturation.

The forces of sanity prevail: a conservative commentator fired after receiving payments from the White House to promote No Child Left Behind, and “evolution is a theory” textbook stickers are declared unconstitutional in suburban Atlanta.

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