from an episode of Dennis Miller on CNBC: Dennis Miller: When Clinton was President, I found him to be a really reprehensible human being. I didn’t like him. … But on a day-to-day basis, him being President never really bothered me. I thought, “Well, listen, Bill, it’s a tough job. I’m behind ya.” I didn’t like… Read more »
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Election 04
The domain name says it all:johnkerryisadouchebagbutimvotingforhimanyway.com
Excellent Failure – Google Bombs Away!
US President George W. Bush has been Google bombed. A search for “miserable failure” on the popular search engine Google brings up, as the first link, the official biography of Bush provided by the White House. This can be done because Google does not only search the contents of web pages, it also counts how… Read more »
You Never Give Me Your Money
Do you have sticky notes on your monitor? Post-It© notes? Of course you do. Here’s a good one for you. Write it on a Post-It and place it on the edge of your screen so you can see it all day. If you work for the federal government, get it tattooed on your forehead. Insufficient… Read more »
Pipeline Dreams
Last year the U.S. consumed seven billion barrels of oil. Fifty-two percent of that – more than ANWR‘s entire economically-recoverable reserves – was imported. Put another way, 3.2 billion barrels from ANWR represent only about a 166-day supply of crude for America’s gluttonous consumption. Amory and Hunter Lovins estimate that if the refuge were opened… Read more »
Social Security Number Part II
Even the escalators were interminably slow … I finally went to the Social Security Administration‘s local office this afternoon to prove to them that I was born on June 26. It was a mind-numbing experience.
Social Security Number
My birthday is June 26, 1973. I know. I was there. That’s also what my mom told me, and she swears that she was there, too. This has previously never caused a problem for me. Oh, sure, it’s right in the middle of the summer, sandwiched between several other family members’ birthdays. And I never… Read more »
Axis of Evil
Americans share President Bush’s harsh feelings about Iran and Iraq, but attitudes about the third “Axis of Evil” country outlined in his State of the Union address — North Korea — are more up in the air. The new CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll shows that 82% of Americans are willing to use the word “evil” to… Read more »
Toilet Bowl Brushes
Brunei’s economic collapse was made explicit with an auction of Prince Jefri Bolkiah’s depleted assets, which included gold-plated toilet-bowl brushes.
Thursday News Two-Fer
Man Saws Off Hand, Shoots Nails into Head Bartron had shot several nails into his head with a pneumatic gun “because he could not stand the pain from the amputation.” Castro Says He Hopes Bush “Not as Stupid as He Seems” Castro said that “someone very strange, with very little promise, has taken charge of… Read more »
USDA OKs Smaller Cheese Holes
USDA OKs Smaller Cheese Holes Under the old standards, most of the holes, or ‘eyes’, in Grade A Swiss had to be eleven-sixteenths to thirteen-sixteenths of an inch in diameter. The new standard, which takes effect Feb. 22, reduces the minimum size to three-eighths of an inch.
Election
davidgagne.net – Still with no presidential election commentary!