Archive for November, 2006
Thursday, November 30th, 2006 by Insider
This family classic from 1967 is now available again (click on picture):
Disney Memorial Orgy
And the back story from IllegalArt.org
One of the original Mad Magazine illustrators, Wally Wood published this poster in The Realist, an underground newsletter, in 1967. An inside source at Disney told Realist editor Paul Krassner that the company chose not to sue […]
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Posted in Not the conventional wisdom | 5 Comments »
Thursday, November 30th, 2006 by Chad
I can no longer access IS from work so the following was posted earlier today on another blog. Since it is a follow-up to something I have been writing about here I am cross-posting with some very light editing.
Here is more of the the saga of Capt. Jamil Hussien. An AP source whose identity was […]
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Posted in Brilliant, but uncategorizable | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 by Insider
The [Miami] Heat are like a group of women who went out for somebody’s birthday, ordered food and wine and spent the next three hours talking and eating and drinking and having a grand old time. And then the check comes and they’re completely floored by the total. Wait, it’s how much??? So they spend […]
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 by Chad
Last night I posted about the beehive Curt at Flopping Aces had stirred up with his questions about the veracity of an AP source. Today the plot thickens.
After the Associated Press’s response to the criticism of Capt. Jamil Hussien CENTCOM announced that the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior will declare that Capt Jamil Hussien is […]
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Posted in Brilliant, but uncategorizable | 11 Comments »
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 by Insider
From Hello Rocky:
Hello Rocky:
What do you think of Elton John’s desire to ban all religions?
Tiffany Swisher
Jacksonville, FL
Rocky Responds:
As a rule, Tiffany, I don’t worry about anything coming out of Elton John’s mouth that isn’t written by Bernie Taupin.
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 by Insider
How do you not click on this link that Independent Sources freelancer Dirk found today on MSN:
“Goats found spray-painted, surrounded by porn”
We are going to believe Dirk when he says that he found the link when perusing MSN and not as the result of a Google search on goat porn.
tags: goat porn
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 by Insider
China Arnold: Arrested Killing her One Month Old Child
There is no humor in this story, just the continuing saga of people who should not be allowed to reproduce. China’s defense is that the baby sitter did it, an excuse disputed by the father of the child.
“The baby sitter ain’t had nothing to do with it.”
A […]
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Posted in Loons | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006 by Chad
Among many conservative bloggers the Associated Press has a reputation for trustworthiness that ranks with that of Pravda, and there is a reason for that feeling.
In the past year AP has had:
A Pulitzer prize winning photographer detained by the American Military for colluding with terrorists. This photographer Bilal Hussien had previously had questions raised about […]
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Posted in Brilliant, but uncategorizable | 9 Comments »
Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 by Insider
Does this make me look fat?
You might be surprised to learn that Insider has a mother and that is where I was on Thanksgiving–stuffing myself. Unfortunately, I was also sick and mom considers 28.8k AOL to be high-speed so posting was impossible. So I’m catching up now. Unfortunately some stories that we’d like to […]
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Monday, November 27th, 2006 by Insider
One of our favorite blogs here at Independent Sources is the econoblog Marginal Revolution. Thus it was with great pleasure that we came across this Los Angeles Times front page business section story about them and its primary writer Tyler Cowen.
Cowen describes his fans as “high IQ, possibly nerdy, looking for kicks or for something […]
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Posted in Blogging, Los Angeles Times | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, November 21st, 2006 by Chad
Speculation abounds on what the results could have been if a week before the election President Bush accompanied by a bevy of Hooters girls had announced the lifting of the FDA’s ban on Silicone Breast Implants. It may very well have swung that key voter demographic, Males 18 to Dead, to the Republican cause.
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Posted in Funny ... to us, Brilliant, but uncategorizable | 4 Comments »
Sunday, November 19th, 2006 by Insider
Insider got his first telemarketing call on a cell phone. Even worse it was one of those automated telemarketing calls that robbed me of the ability to yell at a human. I’m pretty sure this is illegal and my phone number is on the national do-not-call registry.
The # that showed up on my cell phone […]
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Posted in How Not To Succeed In Business | 6 Comments »
Thursday, November 16th, 2006 by Insider
An analytic social psychologist crunched some UNESCO data to generate a “World Map of Happiness” and determined that:
a. The happiest people in the world live in: 1. Denmark, 2. Switzerland, 3. Austria and 4. Iceland.
b. The unhappiest people live in: 176. Democratic Republic of the Congo, 177. Zimbabwe, and 178. Burundi.
c. Canadians are much […]
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Posted in Big Thoughts | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 by Chad
On 12 Jan 2006, Nancy Pelosi announced a dream team designed to “restore honor and dignity to the House of Representatives” by addressing the “systemic Republican culture of corruption that has undermined the American people’s confidence in the institution.” Her plan for doing so:
Support John Murtha for House Majority Leader. An unindicted co-conspirator […]
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Posted in Funny ... to us, Brilliant, but uncategorizable | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006 by Insider
Dr. Hoist sent me an email saying something to the effect that Clinton left his mark on more than a blue dress. If anyone knows what Photoshop genius created this let me know so I can credit them.
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Last time we looked, we were a "Large Mammal" in the TLB ecosystem.