Link So there is a group called We Are Family. This group has devised a video meant to stress the importance of togetherness. This video contains a large variety of cartoon characters. Guess why Conservative groups are pissed? Apparantly, Spongebob has a marginal role in this film. Oh no. Anyways, this is old news and hardly worth writing about. What is disturbing, however, is a sentiment attributed to one of the opposition groups, the American Family Association. It basically says...
Link Well, it happened. You knew it was going to. It did. In a continuation of one of the most asinine trends that I have ever witnessed, malls are now shopping around for new things to call their Easter Bunnies. Why? Because Easter is a Christian holiday, and we can't have Christian holidays mentioned by name, can we? Forget the fact that its a giant rabbit passing out multicolored pastel eggs made of chocolate and other candy. Forget the fact that this is more detached from Chris...
Link According to a new study, it appears that European nation's attitudes have been increasingly negative in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks. This certainly seems to strike a blow against those that cry out against Americans' negative attitudes after the terrorist attacks. Now, I grant that few of those European nations rushed into a "retaliatory" war against those that didn't attack them, and that none of those nations have been shown to tie up naked prisoners a...
Link Allow me to present the gist of this article in lighthearted, dialogue form: UNITED STATES: We want you to join us in a program we want to start whereby we shoot down missiles that come hurtling towards us. CANADA: No. UNITED STATES: Fair enough. I guess it's just us deciding to shoot missiles down then. CANADA: Oh, by the way, if there is a missile in Canadian airspace, you have to have our permission to shoot it down. UNITED STATES: Come a...
Link Say that you have an affair with a woman. Say that you have oral sex with this woman. Say that this woman saves the sperm, uses it to impregnate herself, and then files a paternity suit two years later. Well, this is exactly what a Chicago doctor accuses his former lover (also a doctor) of doing. The man has filed a lawsuit, suing his former lover for emotional distress and "theft of sperm," claiming he found out about the child 2 years after the fact, when she filed a paternity...
Link Ok so here's the story: A woman kills her husband, who had a history of alcoholism and domestic abuse. She gets arrested and goes to court. Citing the incredible hardship that this woman must have gone through, the judge sentences her to be detained "until the court gets up for tea." WTF!!! Until the court gets up for tea??? She killed someone!!! Now, please do not misinterpret this article as sympathy towards her husband, who I've no doubt was abusive, or as comtemptous cy...
Link Well, isnt this lovely? Alan Keyes, the Republican Party's whipping boy, the man Conservatives send to fight after the first 8 options have been exhausted and the battle is unwinnable, has a gay daughter. The lunatic who called out Dick Cheney's daughter for her "selfish hedonism" was calling out his own child as well. And what did the classy perennial loser do? Kicked his daughter out of the house and stopped paying for her college. At least we know one thing now: Mr. ...
Link Well, strike a blow against the "homosexuality is a choice" crowd. German scientists introduced female penguins to 3 male-male penguin couples, hoping to see if the male penguins had developed homosexual relationships as a result of necessity or desire. Well, folks, the results are in: Desire! The penguins did not choose partners based on what the situation presented them with, but based on what they were attracted to. Isolated with the imported females, they pined for their ...
Link Alright. Here we go. Are you ready for this? First there was beer. Then there was non-alcoholic beer. Then there was light beer. Now there is (drumroll please) GAY BEER!!! Yes, friends, someone has finally manufactured a beer with the specific intention of mass marketing to the gay community. Let me just point out, first of all, that I think this concept is as asinine as saying some dresses, talks, or looks gay. That being said: Do you hear it? Do you hear the activists g...
Link Say you go to a McDonald's drive-thru (although if you've gone this far, you're already a lost cause). You give your order to the wonderfully articulate individual who is on the other end of the loudspeaker. The funny thing is, if you happen to be in Oregon, the loudspeaker guy is in North Dakota! See, North Dakota's minimum wage is about 2 dollars less than Oregons, so McDonald's, God bless it, has decided to outsource jobs there. This marks a great new phase in large corporatio...
Link So there's a judge. And in this judge's courtroom, he sees a mother. This mother happens to be an immigrant. This immigrant mother happens to not speak English. This judge takes the next logical step: threatening to take her child if she does not learn English. Somewhere, the Constitution cries. I am well aware that immigrants should learn English, certainly not for the convenience of the ignorant "In America, we speak English" crowd, but for the higher quality of life that k...
Link Imagine the following scenario: Idiot goes to the zoo. Idiot happens on the tiger cage. Idiot climbs fence, approaches tiger exhibit, reaches hand in. Idiot gets bitten. And now, to test for rabies, they might have to kill the tiger, which happens to be one of only 800 left in the world? No. This moron damn well better volunteer himself for the rabies shot, because there is no reason that an animal should die for a person's stupidity. Kill the tiger? Kill the idio...
I was walking through campus the other day, and I ducked into one of the lecture centers in order to escape the cold. As I had some time to kill, I perused the flyers tacked up to the corkboard, which advertised everything from laptops to apartments to that damn free ipod everyone's all up in arms about. As I was looking, this little gem caught my eye: There had been a meeting organized on campus for people to listen to and/or voice their displeasure with the current war. Although I forget...
Link Delegate John A. Cosgrove of Virginia has introduced a bill to the Virginia House of Delegates, proposing that the Code of Virginia be amended. The amendment would make it a crime for a woman who has a miscarriage to wait more than 12 hours before notifying authorities of the fact that she had a miscarriage. So my first question is, What kind of a moron is this man??? This idiot wants to make it a CLASS 1 MISDEMEANOR for a woman who has gone through not only the physical but excr...
Link An art show in New York has been shut down because of a portrait of President Bush that is comprised of monkeys. Let us not discuss that the gallery was private and has the right to exclude anything that it considers offensive. That is all fine and good. Take the piece down, though, not the whole show!!! There were many more artists who worked hard on their pieces that have now lost exposure because some idiot thinks its offensive to create a likeness of the president out of mon...