Entries from June 2009

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

White Power and the American Army

I usually try not to write posts that do little more than point you to better things that other people have written. But despite my preambles, this is essentially one of those posts.
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released a report exploring Right-wing extremism in America. Specifically, the report mentioned disgruntled [...]

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Onion Stories Brought to Life

By my own city nonetheless. This is just so … Toronto of us.
Hey, look. It’s a family having fun. Good times. Summer days. A city that, while probably suffering from a Smog warning, still has plenty of summertime activities to enjoy.
What problems could the City of Toronto have with a photograph that displays exactly that [...]

Thursday, June 11th, 2009

Sanity at FOX News

I certainly had to see it to believe it, and I can only imagine that the same is true for many of you.
Apparently, Shepard Smith has been getting saner and saner by the day.
A while ago, he lost it on a co-anchor and a guest who were talking their way around the use of torture [...]

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

Just kill me now

I’m really expected to wait patiently for two whole days until I can watch, gripping a tumbler of something only a little less potent than rubbing alcohol, my team play a Game 7 for the Stanley Cup?
What kind of retarded, egomaniacal, business-destroying, nerve-antagonizing, sport-ruining, monkey-faced joke of a businessman decided that was a good idea?
Right. [...]

Tuesday, June 9th, 2009

Eight hours and counting…

How fervently do I wish they started these games at noon?
And imagine, should the unthinkable happen in Pittsburgh tonight (*knocks on wood*) we’ll all be waiting until Friday for another game. So we can play Games 1 & 2 on back-to-back nights three days after the end of the previous series … but we have [...]

Monday, June 8th, 2009

Sarah Palin told me so

Sarah Palin used to be entertaining.
I mean, she was the perfectly-cast Hollywood sideshow foil that made last year’s election so incredibly riveting. She was so good at being the election’s comic relief that watching Tina Fey imitate her was almost disappointing. It was impossible to play a Folksy Right Wing Nutjob character and get more [...]