Sep
16
Fun with Watchtower covers, from TruthBook Blue (this is number ten in a series!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4l3WNTu1oZk
If you read this blog, I am quite sure that you already have an idea of what I might have to say about the following question:
Does “the faithful and discreet slave” endorse independent groups of Witnesses who meet together to engage in [...]
Aug
19
The semaphore (four rotating disks of light) atop the Adobe tower in downtown San Jose is indeed transmitting a message.
Never heard of a semaphore? There are multiple meanings. In programming, it concerns methodology for mutual exclusion (see “excluded middles” below), parallel processing, and synchronization.
Predating the electrical telegraph, the semaphore was defined as an [...]
May
13
You’ve probably heard by now (via the attorney firing scandal, Monica Goodling) that the Bush administration has appointed more than 150 graduates of Regent (Pat Robertson’s 29-year-old bottom-tier law school) to prominent positions in the US government. No?
Regent itself estimates that “approximately one out of every six Regent alumni is employed in some form [...]
Aug
14
The Daily Show’s new Middle Eastern correspondent, Aasif Mandvi:
Does the inevitable mushroom cloud have a silver lining?
Video - WMV Video - QT
Thanks to Crooks and Liars for hosting this (or view it at YouTube) and to BB for passing it along.
Jun
19
Political comedy email making the rounds…
“Thank you for calling the White House switchboard. Our new voice activated system will help direct you to the proper office.”
“If you are calling to complain about the mishandling of the war in Iraq, press one.”
“If you are calling to complain about the abuse of prisoners and the White House’s [...]
Jun
02
We can’t give you that cancer-fighting chemotherapy. It would endanger the pre-fetus. You’ll just have to die and make room for more efficient femfactory production units.
The pre-pregnant. The pre-pregnant?
Well, if all women of reproductive age should consider themselves pre-pregnant, then I guess there will have to be a resurrection of real sex education and easily [...]
May
20
I’ve been waiting a bit to comment on the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. There are a lot of opinions out there, and I’m happy most of all that people are talking and writing and thinking about issues, humor and satire vs. criticism and insult, comedy as news, the role of a court jester, and so [...]
