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But it’s not anything President Obama came up with:
“I want to apologize to you for what happened,” he said, looking earnest and speaking as if he felt pretty badly about it all. “But I can’t. Because I did nothing wrong.”

America, F**k Yeah!


Posted by Contrarian on December 29th, 2008

Big Pharma kills terrorists:
The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an opportunity, and reached into his bag for a small gift.
Four blue pills. Viagra.
“Take one [...]

Reading My Mind


Posted by Bruno on September 24th, 2008

Alaska Airlines is shamelessly capitalizing on my Sarah Palin nightmares:

Obama in the Pockets of Big Tire Gauge


Posted by Bruno on August 12th, 2008

Wired has the goods:
On June 16, 2008, John Zimmerman, chief financial officer of Tomkins, gave nearly $7,000 in campaign contributions to Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Lo and behold, nary two months later Obama’s in Springfield, Missouri, suggesting drivers inflate their tires to save gas (and, by the [...]

2008: The Year Black Broke


Posted by Contrarian on August 12th, 2008

Not only do we have Barack Obama* but America also discovers that blacks really do know how to swim:
Bronx-born swimmer Cullen Jones didn’t just help power the U.S. relay swim team to Olympic gold – he just may have shattered the stereotype that blacks can’t swim.
Although Jones isn’t the first African-American swimmer to make the [...]

Eyman


Posted by Bruno on May 1st, 2008

Low on funds.

Land Rover


Posted by Bruno on March 26th, 2008

There’s something poetic about the news that India’s Tata Motors is buying the Land Rover and Jaguar brands from Ford. The Land Rover was the car that was used to conquer, colonize and maintain british control over India, and now it’s owned by an Indian company. We are truly in the post-colonial [...]

Spot Runner


Posted by Bruno on March 26th, 2008

A new site that will do for political media consultants what Redfin did for real-estate agents:
Political campaign season is upon us and that means one thing: really bad political ads on TV. There are 50,000 public elections every year in the United States. And an estimated $3 billion will be spent on political [...]

With Clinton and Obama tearing one another to shreds, it’s seeming possible that either Obama or Clinton winning the nomination could cause a rift in the party for this election cycle, a rift that whether temporary or permanent could hand the most winnable presidential election campaign in years to the GOP.
Obviously, some kind of [...]

Where The Beef Is


Posted by Bruno on February 22nd, 2008

I love this headline, which just appeared in my RSS reader:

The collision of the lame pun and journalistic-headline-writing-comma-sytle makes for a funny juxtaposition.
Sadly, the actual article opts for a longer, less hilarious headline.


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