Archive for December, 2006
Video of Saddam Hussein’s Execution
Sunday, December 31st, 2006For those who are morbid, curious, or both, This Old Brit has the video of Hussein’s execution.
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Calamari For Everyone
Sunday, December 31st, 2006Japan: Giant Squid Captured, Filmed for First Time
24 feet of squid… we’re gonna need a bucket of tartar sauce and a tree of lemons…
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In Bush’s free Iraq, even the hangmen hide their faces.
Saturday, December 30th, 2006More troops unhappy with Bush’s course in Iraq
Saturday, December 30th, 2006 So sayeth the Military Times.
What this means, of course, is now that servicepeoples’ negative opinions about Bush and the war mirror those of the American people at large, the wingnuts among us can shut up about about antiwar people demoralizing the troops.
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Save Boomer
Friday, December 29th, 2006
The Terrier Club is trying to find the cutest terrier of 2006. There are still 2 days left to vote, and Boomer needs your help. Just click here and vote. Boomer’s photo is the first on the list.
Your vote is crucial. Boomer’s owner has said that if he doesn’t win, she’ll have him put down.
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Could the timing of Saddam’s execution be a bit too convenient…?
Thursday, December 28th, 2006Why has Saddam been sentenced to die for killing over 100 Shia? Did the Iraqi judicial system somehow forget about Saddam’s Anfal campaign wherein he used chemical weapons to kill over 100,000 Kurds? Why isn’t he being tried for this crime? Is it because the Reagan administration supplied Saddam with some of […]
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Nominations Open For Dumbest Comments of the Year
Thursday, December 28th, 2006 A comment by Sharon on a recent thread gave me an idea - I’d like to see some nominations for the stupidest things 0ur wingnut visitors have had to say over the last twelve months of wanking.
Here’s sharon’s quote:
I realize asking people here to be logical is probably a moot point.
Note the unintentional […]
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Anti-Affirmative Action Measure Creates Segregated Universities
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006November marked the tenth anniversary of Proposition 209, which barred California’s public institutions from using affirmative action to counter the effects of racial and gender bias. And as everyone with half a brain expected, the result has been a sharp drop in diversity at the state’s leading universities:
Jarring statistics about UCLA’s freshman class this year […]
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Time to Grow Up
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
Somewhere between Dr. Ruth and Dr. Laura, we seem to have lost the ability to talk like adults about sex (yes, that’s really Dr. Laura)
According to a recent study, 99% of Americans have had sex by age 44, and 95% have had premarital sex. The group least likely to have had premarital sex were women […]
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