More on what the EU Referendum in France is telling us:
The French “no” highlights a basic challenge for France. French voters liked the added leverage that they got as being part of the EU, but now that it might threaten what the French perceive as their God given right to high pay low productivity, all […]
Who is the Happiest Man in Hollywood?
That’s easy. Disney Chairman Michael Eisner, but not for the reasons that you might think.
Michael could certainly be happy for the resurgence of ABC, the positive steps that his hand picked successor was doing, or any number of other things going on at Disney. However none of these compared […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)While there is probably very little that we would otherwise agree on, this posting from DED SPACE (which is dedicated to Liberalism, Feminism, Animal Liberation, Social Mores, and the WTA) is so dead on that we bring it to you unedited. It’s great when we can drop our partisan bickering and all agree that one […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)In an article titled “CEOs Fight Making It Easier For Holders to Stop Board Picks” [$], the WSJ reported:
“… the Business Roundtable is launching a campaign to oppose shareholder proposals that would make it easier for investors to reject nominees for corporate boards.
The Business Roundtable, composed of chief executives of 160 major corporations, is alarmed […]
The Economist, 5/28/2005, reviewing the book “Mao: The Unknown Story”:
“Mao, it seems, was utterly contemptuous of the downtrodden masses whose savior the Party proclaimed itself to be.”
The Los Angeles Times, Friday, announcing that big-time Democratic contributor David Geffen has to allow non-billionaires near his house:
(On Thursday) coastal-access advocates set foot on the sand at Tinseltown […]
In the “Police With Too Much Time On Their Hands” file we find this story from Hermosa Beach, California:
Lawrence Petersen, who drives commercial vehicles for a living, hadn’t gotten a speeding ticket in about 15 years until a motorcycle officer with a radar gun pulled him over Feb. 17 – for riding his bicycle 19 […]
The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to
take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or
changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year’s
winners:
1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until
you realize it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life […]
French voters rejected a proposed European Union constitution Sunday, igniting a political crisis in the alliance and dealing a sharp blow to French President Jacques Chirac.With nearly all ballots counted, the Interior Ministry reported that 55.5% of voters had rejected the constitution and 44.5% had approved it.
Why is this funny?
Let’s remember that France is one […]
From Ace of Spades, we learned of a site that has been kicking around for awhile but amused us to no end. Essentially, a very bitter adult judges crappy childrens’’ art in objective terms and of course decides that it all sucks. Below is their explanation as well as one of their artwork reviews.
If you […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Along with the multiple copies of the Cambodian Midget Fighting League story in my email box, I received a “Dear Friend” letter that caught our attention. While the purposes of this blog are many — from pointing out poor public policy to outing politicial correctiveness run amok — every once in a while we see […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Google Maps is one of the coolest new toys on the Internet. However, in the process of mapping the globe some very strange things are popping up on the satellite images. Questions are being asked about the supposed UFO that can be seen on Google’s satellite image of West Palm Beach, Florida (click link to see […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Make no mistake about it, there is very little free speech on college campuses. The combination of political correctiveness and liberal bias wrapped up into insidious devices called “speech codes” under which administrators can clamp down on anyone and anything they feel runs against their views. If you think we are exaggerating, look at what […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)[Editor’s note: We’d like to welcome a new guest columnist, Gunny, to IndependentSources/InformedSources. He is enormously brilliant, surprising bitter for his young age, and a little off kilter — all good traits for a blogger. He is also studying law so we have just a couple of years to convert him away from the dark […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)I thought this was a hoax but the source was neither CBS nor Newsweek so it looks like it is true. I believe the story that it was an accident but lack of intent doesn’t make it any less stupid. Come on.
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We’ve made well over a 100 posts over the past few months. We have covered topics as diverse as Jim Lampley’s loopy politics to how the French are like watching Sea Monkeys. We’ve savaged Warren Beatty and asked what’s wrong with putting criminals in prison? But what do people want? Here’s the last 13 […]
