If you hear these words from someone who is trying to sell you something or get your vote, you can be assured that all of the words associated with them are false or devoid of information: Improved Best Greatest Cheesier Voted the most Fun Sophisticated New convenient size It will blow you away Our forefathers […]
Category Archives: Politics
Change You Can Deal With
Dear members of the political media, Every time you refer to someone changing their mind as a “flip-flopper,” you continue to act out the script set for you by the Bush campaign back in 2004. Are you not tired yet of being manipulated so easily and baldly by mudslinging campaign strategists? Are you so simple-minded […]
To Own Your Right to Eat, Completely
I’ve had The World According to Monsanto playing in the background as I work today. In short: Monsanto, throughout its history, has acted on a policy of poisoning, lying, legal bullying, and bribery. They are in the process of spreading their genetically modified crops around the world, both through commerce and the simple fact that […]
The Pit All Afire
“Oh, Daddy, I’ve had such a dream; I dreamt that I saw the pit all afire, And men struggled hard for their lives; The scene it then changed, and the top of the mine Was surrounded by sweethearts and wives.” —Don’t Go Down the Mine Daddy I attended an interesting talk this past weekend given […]
If Your Mother Only Knew
Listening to NPR this morning on the way to work, I caught some interviews with voters in Texas, leading up the the primaries there. The self-identified Christians they spoke to all seemed to echo the same sentiment: I won’t vote for Hilary because a man should lead this country. Seriously? Seriously. Seriously. I know that […]
I Am King of…This Room!
I’ve been listening to NPR coverage of the presidential races all morning (unfortunately) and seeing blurbs online. I’d like to send a message to those of you covering the primaries and caucuses: Winning one state is not a crushing blow to the opposition and winning one state after losing one out of a total of […]
Interrogators of the Nazis Decry the U.S. Defense of Torture
By way of my friend Steve, a Washington Post story that says it just about as clearly and forcefully as anything: “We got more information out of a German general with a game of chess or Ping-Pong than they do today, with their torture,” said Henry Kolm, 90, an MIT physicist who had been assigned […]
Seriously, Does This Even Qualify as a Rational Response?
ABC News is reporting some terribly important news. My friend Adam passed along this thrilling article to point out what has to be the absolute perfect quote from Sean Hannity. Why am I repeating something that this slack-jawed puppet is saying? Because it precisely communicates why he should be ignored and then we can all […]
Monsanto Whines as Consumers Opt for Hormone-free Milk
Monsanto, the wonderful people who’ve brought genetically engineered seed and bovine growth hormone into every virtually every household in the U.S. and elsewhere, are now complaining to the FTC that “ads mislead consumers into thinking that milk from cows not treated with rBST are healthier or safer than dairy products from cows treated with the […]
Resident Evil 5: Is It Racist to Kill Black Zombies?
So, Capcom is developing the fifth Resident Evil videogame in the series. The Resident Evil series is about various misdeeds of corporations and cults that lead to zombies. In the fifth installment, it appears that there’s an outbreak in Africa, and the lead character who you play as has to kill African zombies in Africa. […]