Archive for July 2008
“Myth: Cable piracy is wrong. Fact: Cable companies are big, faceless corporations which makes it okay.” – “So You’ve Decided to Steal Cable” Pamphlet I moved recently; in doing so there was one unalloyed benefit, I am no longer a customer of Comcast. Not for phone, internet, teevee or anything else; it is a wonderful [...]
“Mr. Simpson, this government computer can process over nine tax returns per day; did you really think you could fool it?” – IRS Agent As part of their slowly domestic spying series Salon ran an invaluable article by Tim Shorrock on Wednesday about plans for the formation of a new Church Committee in the wake [...]
“Boys, stop! You can both marry me!” – Abe Simpson (Queen of the Old West) I go out of town for the weekend, before I leave I put my Sunday post (about how news in July doesn’t matter) in the hopper to be automatically posted. Then something that might actually matter, Nouri al-Maliki all but [...]
“Hey kids, Batman!” – Homer Simpson “Dad, that’s not the real Batman.” – Lisa Simpson “Of course I’m Batman. See, here’s a picture of me with Robin.” – Adam West “Who the hell’s Robin?” – Bart Simpson “Oh, I guess you’re only familiar with the new Batman movies. Michelle Pfeiffer, ha! The only true Catwoman [...]
“We kicked down the back door, but then there was a metal door.” – Lenny On Monday Barack Obama published an op-ed piece in the New York Times, on Tuesday he gave a speech on Iraq and foreign policy (video, full text). (What? Was there something else going on this week? How stupid.) The op-ed [...]
“Momma, I’m scared of Peter Pan.” – Penny Tompkins “We all are, honey.” – Alice Tompkins There’s no point rehashing the short sighted stupidity of the FISA bill passed by Congress this week. (Mr. Greenwald, once again, has everything you need to know in one place.) It contains retroactive immunity for the telephone companies, precludes [...]
“Is it a crime to be illiterate?” – Krusty the Klown The links on the right side of the page, long stale and ignored, have been revised with a couple of things in mind. It is now a list of what I read on a regular basis, nothing more. I don’t like the word “blogroll” [...]
“You don’t care about me! It’s my cookies! It’s always been the damn cookies! Well sugar, the bakery just closed.” – Stewie Griffin That didn’t take long. Just a few weeks ago Bush the Younger was imperiously using an agreement with Iraq to bind his successor to his failed policies. Now the Iraqi government has [...]
“Which, if true, means death for us all.” – Kent Brockman The “Bomb Iran” rumors have been making the rounds again lately and while I share the opinion that nothing whatsoever can be considered beyond the pale for Bush the Younger and friends I still think this one is too much, even for them. Their [...]
“If it’s in a book, it’s gotta be true.” – Milhouse van Houten “Scary, no? And this guy’s head of the Spaceology Department at the Correspondence College of Tampa!” – Bart Simpson The ongoing unintentional comedy project that is Conservapedia made it back to the front page of Ars Technica this week. It seems some [...]
