Passive-aggressiveness is the last resort of the weak-minded. Not the the stupid.
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Excellent overheard quote:
Excellent overheard quote: It’s better to be hated for who you are, than to be loved for who you pretend to be.
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a little house-cleaning
From Randi Rhodes, a terrible radio host, who stumbled on a few good ideas for news media: First, Congress must act to adopt standards for labeling a broadcast as NEWS. There is a right to a free press expressly guaranteed to each and every one of us, and yet there Continue Reading
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Fuck Art – part 3
Not only is he not allowed to replicate a painting by Michelangelo, but he gets in trouble for using the word “love”: “He painted Eve as God created her: nude. And when he finished including the bare-bosomed Biblical first woman, he inscribed the word “love” on the mural that covers Continue Reading
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Naked Chicks, Cash, and Comic Books
I sometimes think that if it weren’t for porn, I wouldn’t remember what a naked woman looks like. I mean, ya know, if I relied on Picasso or DuChamp … imagine what my expectations for the female body would be. I heard a story in passing, the other day, about Continue Reading
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Survey Finds First Amendment Is Being Left Behind in U.S. High Schools
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A new national study, the largest of its kind, says America’s high schools are leaving the First Amendment behind. In particular, educators are failing to give high school students an appreciation of the First Amendment’s guarantees of free speech and a free press, say researchers from the Continue Reading
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Fuck Art – No. 2
Parents and students say they are outraged and offended by a proposed band name and song scheduled for a high school talent show in Boulder this evening, but members of the band, named Coalition of the Willing, said the whole thing is being blown out of proportion. The students told Continue Reading
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Fuck Art – No. 1
“ABC affiliates in at least eight states will not televise the network’s broadcast of the World War II film “Saving Private Ryan” because they fear repercussions from U.S. regulators. “Affiliates in Alabama, Georgia, Iowa, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina and West Virginia said they were worried about running afoul Continue Reading
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Swiftboats and Moles and Machinery, Oh My!
There’s good money in this city, being spent on large pieces of machinery that lift heavy stuff hundreds of feet in the air and place it on top of or inside other heavy stuff. Six or seven years I’ve been here, and I’ve never seen this level of construction going Continue Reading
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Disney: Am I Full of Shit or Not
Disney refused to release Michael Moore’s newest movie, Fahrenheit 9/11, claiming it was too mean and gritty for their image. Today, Hyperion Publishing, which is, you know, a subsidiary of Disney, paid $300,000 for the rights to a book from a Senate intern who was briefly famous a month or Continue Reading
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State of the Union as seen from UK
Published by the lndependent/UK Today the President gives his annual address. As the election battle begins, how does his first term add up? 232: Number of American combat deaths in Iraq between May 2003 and January 2004 501: Number of American servicemen to die in Iraq from the beginning of Continue Reading
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BBC to open archives online
The BBC has announced that they will be putting their entire archives, radio and television, online for free downloads. That is just fucking cool.
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Flash and Bang
Just to start off on the right foot… Some of you out there really make me fucking sick. Two days ago there were two major stories in the news: A truck bomb is set off in front of the local UN headquarters in Baghdad. 20 people are killed and over Continue Reading
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what to do
The Shrub says he is “watching what is going on with the California recall election, but will let the voters decide what to do”. As if he had a f’n choice.
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c://run Smite
A Christian group in Orlando is calling for a lifting of the no-fly ban over Walt Disney World so that they can charter airplanes to drag anti-gay banners over the park during Gay Days, an unofficial gathering of gays and lesbians at the park. — local6.com To quote Keir, “Yep. Continue Reading
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what a day
7 dead on the Space Shuttle Columbia 40 dead in a Zimbabwe train crash Over 100,000 rioting in the Ivory Coast What a fucking day.
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Shuttle Columbia goes Down.
shit.
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Rumesfeld meets Saddam
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Penn Gillette
” Last Thursday I was flying to LA on the Midnight flight. I went through security my usual sour stuff. I beeped, of course, and was shuttled to the “toss-em” line. A security guy came over. I assumed the position. I had a button up shirt on that was untucked. Continue Reading
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IM
“The patent (6449344), originally filed in 1997, and granted in September this year, gives AOL instant messaging subsidiary ICQ rights as the inventor of the popular IM Internet application. The patent covers anything resembling a network that lets multiple IM users see when other people are present and then communicate Continue Reading