“It’s the singer, not the song” (Mick Jagger)
In what may go down as either the greatest corporate hoax ever or the dumbest corporate marketing maneuver since New Coke, Song Airlines (the low-cost division of Delta Airlines) announced that it has found an even worse business than the airline business to be in…the record business. Evidently, […]
Actors Tilt Toward Video Game Strike
Negotiations have broken down between SAG/AFTRA and a group of video game companies including: Electronic Arts, Activision, Blindlight, Insomniac Games, Interactive Associates, Rockstar Games and VoiceWorks Prods.
Per Backstage.com:
The companies’ lead negotiator, attorney Howard Fabrick, said that the unions’ stance was “disappointing” considering that the final offer was an expansion of […]
Warren Beatty, who has been involved in politics for years, played a senator in the 1998 movie “Bulworth” and entertained the idea of running for the presidency six years ago, attacked California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in a commencement speech to University of California, Berkeley graduates. Among other things the liberal actor and director told students that […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)When you walk by someone’s cubicle and see a Google or Yahoo search window open, what do you think they looking for? You might be surprised. Scanning at a somewhat random sampling of searches performed by folks who landed at Independent Sources in the past day, hoaxes and midgets are big topics of interest:
midget hoax
conservative […]
This morning comes word (hat tip: Scared Monkeys) that John Kerry maybe sorta might sign his Form 180, which could make his Navy service record available to the press and public. From columnist Joan Vennochi of the the Boston Globe, in a story dated today (May 24):
“During an interview yesterday with Globe editorial writers and […]
We throw the following out without editorial commentary — from a George Will column in Newsweek that summarized a commencement address he just gave:
“… the greatest threat to civility—and ultimately to civilization—is an excess of certitude. The world is much menaced just now by people who think that the world and their duties in it […]
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As a member of the Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, and as a session guitarist for Carly Simon, Bryan Adams, Ringo Starr and many others, Jeff “Skunk” Baxter has been a clandestine rock and roll hero since the ’70s. Now, as a specialist in terrorism, missile defense and chemical and biological warfare, […]
From the Department of “You Have Got to be Kidding!’, My Way News reports:
Federal officials are scrambling to find a way to plug a legal loophole that allows convicted rapists and other high-risk sex offenders to receive erectile-dysfunction drugs paid for by Medicaid.
The issue was revealed Sunday by the New York state comptroller’s office, which […]
From : Outside The Beltway : Grade Inflation at Cornell
Cornell educators thought by publishing accurate grading information, students would be encouraged to take more challenging courses (did these educators ever go to school themselves?). The Law of Unintended Conseqences rears its ugly ahead yet again:
In 1997 Cornell University began posting median grades for every course […]
Thank you Some Joe for pointing us to the 10 ten members of congress accepting paid trips from third parties:
John Breaux - Democratic Party - $158,311.92Robert Wexler - Democratic Party - $155,137.21Gene Green - Democratic Party - $153,873.02Maurice Hinchey - Democratic Party - $152,169.25Cal Dooley - Democratic Party - $148,562.50Evan Bayh - Democratic Party - […]
A site called kottke.org offers up a funny look at how you should order food in a restaurant if you follow the precepts of such pop science books as “The Wisdom of Crowds,” “Blink,” or “Freakonomics.” For instance, an acolyte of “The Paradox of Choice” would “take the menu and rip it into 4 or […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)The Wit and Wisdom of Jim Lampley (as written by Jim in the Huffington Post):
Jim on the state of the country:
It’s excruciating on a day-to-day basis to have to endure the social divisiveness, elitist arrogance and blatant media control of creeping fascism in America.
… a country where real democracy lies momentarily dormant. Dormant due […]
You remember Trafalgar, don’t you? The 1805 battle where Admiral Nelson’s British fleet captured or sank 22 out of 33 of their French and Spanish opponents, ensuring British naval supremacy for a century? In order to spare French and Spanish sensitivities, a celebration of the 200th anniversary of the battle may ignore the inconvenient fact […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)A grim, but oddly funny, addition to the chronicles of political ’suicide’:
“Egypt’s prosecutor-general said Saturday that the accused mastermind of three recent attacks that targeted Western tourists in Egypt had committed suicide. The official said Ashraf Saeed Youssef, 27, had died Friday in the hospital where he had been transferred a week ago for […]
Smoking Chimp in South African Zoo
In a twist on the old “Man Bites Dog” story, we have a smoking chimp. I know that we all laugh when animals act like people, but how about if they act like caricaturely trashy white folks? Do we take the libertarian viewpoint and let them do whatever they want […]
