…but this guy is on another level.
Oh, yes, firecrackers are dangerous all right. Any idiot can blow his fingers off — and many idiots do. But many idiots also shoot themselves or others, sometimes on purpose, sometimes not, because they are idiots. Thanks to the Supreme Court, their idiocy is of a superior nature now because it is rooted in the exercising of an individual constitutional right.
More local papers should have cranky old men write editorials that are basically internet trolls.
We cannot allow a Theme Restaurant Gap!
Hezbollah gets this:
While we in America are stuck with Good Burger, Home of the Good Burger. I liked Good Burger as much if not more than the average American, but this is some really weak themeing. They don’t even have their promised gimmick burgers.
We are losing.
How is that even a dirty word removed of context?
If one searches for “Russert” on youtube today, the autocomplete box will give you the following suggestions:
“russert fart”
“russert mcclellan”
“russert farts”
“russert obama”
“russert ickes”
“russert clinton”
“russert bush”
“russert mccain”
“russert meet the press”
“russert farting”
Most baffling: if you do search for videos of the late Tim Russert farting, NONE EXIST! I thought perhaps he was the new Robert Tilton, who has a rich history of farts being dubbed into his videos. Further youtube searches reveal that people love to add fart noises to videos of famous people. Here’s a seven minute compilation of McCain farting. But no Russert! Not a single suggestion for “McCain” comes up at fart*!
Were the producers of these videos looking to appreciate the life of Lil Russ in the only way they knew how? I don’t know. Either way, R.I.P. Tim. Yours was the first video podcast I ever downloaded.
Man, this is going to get me the worst Google hits.
I am not someone who rides in a taxi very often, so the little TV screens in the back seat are still a strange novelty to me. They’re really annoying, and I muted it as soon as I got in the car, but studies show that I will read absolutely anything put in front of me, so I spent the whole ride back to Brooklyn reading the ticker. There’s no way to get more information besides the blurb on the screen, so I just watched the headlines scroll by. The cab ride lasted about forty minutes, and this gave me the chance to see the entire list cycle through about three times. I was very confused by
DOCTOR: KENNEDY DID NOT HAVE STROKE
but that was only because I had not previously heard that Ted Kennedy had been hospitalized. I thought maybe a new JFK conspiracy theory posited he was killed by a stroke, not a magic bullet? Offered with the same lack of elaboration as I was given, here are my favorites:
FOXY BROWN PLEADS GUILTY TO MENACING
“IDOL” REJECT ACCUSED OF INAPPROPRIATE TEXTING
TRANSIT ALERT: SOME LIRR SERVICE SUSPENDED
MY WEEKEND: WHAT WILL $300K BUY? *
BROOKLYN BLOGFEST!
* Answer? Twenty cab rides from Ian & Jessica’s a day for a year
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Criticisms
So much criticism! Finally, someone is calling out NASCAR, journalism, Family Guy and anarcho-capitalism!
Is there a way to RSS feed just one Wikipedia page?
“As someone who has purchased or rated books by Jon Stewart, you might like to know that Kierkegaard and the Patristic and Medieval Tradition (Kierkegaard Research: Sources, Reception and Resources) will be released on April 15, 2008″
“We’ve noticed that customers who have purchased or rated Arrested Development - Season One have also purchased Garfield: A Cat and His Nerd on DVD. For this reason, you might like to know that Garfield: A Cat and His Nerd will be released on May 13, 2008.”
I am not a professional designer or anything, one look at this site should make this obvious. But I like to think I can identify good design when I see it, and I recently learned that half of the really terrible logos popping up lately have all come from the same design firm: Wolff Olins.
Probably their most egregious campaign is London’s 2012 Olympic Games. Look at their logo:
Best Pen-Name, penis-enlarging spam division: Pimpin Holyfield
Best Subject Line, penis-enlarging spam division: “All previous erections shall be put to shame”
Best Body, penis-enlarging spam division: “with this pill your dick will be the size of the hulk!” [not the size of the Hulk's penis, but the Hulk himself]