Is District Court Judge Richard A. Palumbo the dumbest judge ever, or is he just a major-league asshole? You decide. Here’s what happened:
Three weeks before Yvette Cade was doused with gasoline and set on fire, allegedly by her estranged husband, a Prince George’s County judge dismissed the protective order Cade had against him, [...]
Here, readers, are two nice techno tracks by Space DJ’z for you to download and enjoy:
1. AK47 (4.97 MB, 05:25) — From the 1998 album “Novamute Kompilation” (NovaMute 3040-2). How could such a combination of discordant sounds be combined into such an amazing track? It’s the beat, baby.
2. Hornsey Rise (4.33 [...]
In the UAE, “The Simpsons” has been dubbed into Arabic and “arabicized:”
“Omar Shamshoon,” as he is called on the show, looks like the same Homer Simpson, but he has given up beer and bacon, which are both against Islam, and he no longer hangs out at “seedy bars with bums and lowlifes.” In Arabia, Homer’s [...]
That’s supposed to mean “bandwidth thieves.” (S’il y a un lecteur francophone qui pourrait me donner la traduction française du mot anglais “bandwidth,” je serais content de savoir ce que c’est.) I’ve been having a problem with “hot-linking” recently.
I started seeing heavy traffic in my HTTP logfiles coming out of various Internet forums [...]
Was the nomination of Harriet Miers a bluff, or a ruse? “Movement” conservatives and wingnuts still aren’t on board. Ann Coulter says, “President Bush has no right to say, ‘Trust me,’” and even Krazy Krauthammer, declining for once the proffered flagon of Kool-Aid, says, “Withdraw This Nominee.”
It’s not just that Miers lacks the [...]
While I’m on this quasi-literary bent, readers, let me ask you a couple of questions: Do you remember the “Dirty Realism” movement in American fiction? It was given a sort of de facto canonization with Granta 8 (summer 1983) and Granta 19 (Fall 1986). Among the “Dirty Realists” were the following:
Richard Ford
Jayne [...]
Today I finished re-reading Don DeLillo’s first novel, Americana (1971). It was a frustrating experience.
I’m a huge fan of DeLillo. I consider him to be the preeminent post-WWII American novelist, surpassing not only Mailer, but also the rest of the post-WWII canon (Updike, Roth, Bellow), leaving them in his dust. The best [...]
First it was an ice-cream cone, sold by Burger King in the UK, pulled from BK freezers because the wrapper had a picture that looked like the Arabic word allah.
Now there’s another UK controversy centering around sensitivity to Muslim beliefs:
NOVELTY pig calendars and toys have been banned from a council office — in case they [...]
How is it that:
A. Bill Bennett’s stupid comments about reducing the crime rate by “abort[ing] every black baby in the country” are no big deal; he was just making a classic reductio ad absurdum argument, his statements are being taken out of context, any charge of racism (or even insensitivity) is prima facie [...]
Dadahead posted a link to a story of two vegans who ran afoul of the Department of Homeland Security because they were protesting outside a Honey Baked Ham retail outlet.
After the protest, the duo noticed they were being watched and photographed by a man in an unmarked car. They approached the car and wrote down [...]
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