Politically Correct and Stupid:
An Australian recruitment firm that staffs retail outlets with Santas, has reportedly instructed its Santas to avoid saying “Ho, Ho, Ho” and instead say “Ha, Ha, Ha” else risk offending women. The story broke when one of the disgruntled Santas called the Daily Telegraph in Sydney, leading to a collective “Give me […]
Apparently a U.S. based anti-cancer group believes that there are people in the world who are not yet aware of cancer. However these very people can be finally informed of this terrible disease by holding a live concert in one of the most remote corners of the world with a collection of has been rock […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Two days after a British judge declares “An Inconvenient Truth” to contain “serious scientific inaccuracies, political propaganda and sentimental mush” severe enough to require a disclaimer before it can be shown to schoolchildren “Inventor of the environment and First Emperor of the Moon” Al Gore has won the Nobel Prize for his work with […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Funny but somewhat pitiful story from Patterico about a group of volunteers and other donors who unknowingly built a $1 million estate for a couple who make over a quarter million dollars a year. So much for financial need being a basis for the Extreme Makeover decision making process.
What wasn’t well known […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Over the past couple months we have pointed out how the social and economic policies of Robert Mugabe were leading to the collapse of the Zimbabwean economy. (here, here, here, here, and here) The latest in a long line of foolish decisions was the implementation of price controls which led […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)“Cries like a baby when he’s not throwing f-bombs”
We were going to ignore the story of yet another drunk member of Congress/Senate driving drunk until we saw the video of the arrest of House Judiciary Chair Rob Briley (D). Holy cow.
I don’t know much about Tennessee but maybe they won’t mind having a representative who […]
In a lengthy story on the “longevity gap” between whites and blacks, the Los Angeles Times noted the difficulty in pinpointing the causes for the differences between the life expectancies of whites and blacks in California. The article was written in response to the recent release of a study called “Death in the Golden State” […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Author Nicholas Carr has claimed that virtual inhabitants of the online world Second Life are having a real-world impact.
Carr proposed that, on average, there are about 12,500 active avatars on Second Life at any given point of the day. He reasons that the 4,000 data servers and cooling systems used to support the world, combined […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)“Sorry Mr. Jobs, but man from Greenpleaze give me big money to be photo in!”
Greenpeace attempted to smear Apple with a “goofy Photoshop treatments of the company’s marketing materials” (Digital Daily). In typicalGreenpeace fashion, they over-reached.
According to the WSJ’s Digital Daily:
…Greenpeace, which didn’t even bother to actually measure toxins in Apple’s products. According to the […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)KPFK, LA’s radically progessive radio radio station, hired Eva Georgia, a gay black African immigrant and expected that her recruitment would put them in the politically correct hall of fame. Instead it is another example of hiring for all of the wrong reasons (what the person looks like or represents as opposed to their character, […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Forcing psychotics to take drugs against their will is not a great plan, however it’s better than the alternative of letting clearly delusional and dangerous individuals become human time bombs inside institutions and on the streets. So why don’t we drug them? Ask the California Supreme Court which felt that coercive administration of medication could […]
(click on post title, or here, for the rest)Here is the story from the AP (via LAT):
A man who was fired by IBM Corp. for visiting an adult chat room at work is suing the company for $5 million, claiming that he is an Internet addict who deserves treatment and sympathy rather than dismissal.
There is so much wrong about this that we feel […]
Hypocrisy is not exclusive to the left or the right political spectrum, but South Korea’s leftist are really pushing the envelope to the point of absurdity.
Starving North Koreans
Typically, if are a human rights activist, it’s pretty easy to pick which side your on. The easiest targets are brutal regimes supported by the United States.
But […]
Even if it does allow stoning my wife to death for burning dinner.
Don’t stone women to death, burn them or circumcise them, immigrants wishing to live in the town of Herouxville in Quebec, Canada, have been told.
The rules come in a new town council declaration on culture that Muslims have branded shocking and […]
Proof from “Setting the World to Rights:”
We’re waiting for the poll asking whether it also caused the Pearl Harbor attack.
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