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Asshole of the Month: John Gibson

Posted: Thursday, January 24th, 2008 @ 1:20 pm in Misc | 4 Comments »

Fox News host John Gibson made fun of Heath Ledger’s death yesterday on his execrable radio show:
Opening his radio show with funeral music yesterday, Fox News host John Gibson callously mocked the death of actor Heath Ledger, calling him a “weirdo” with a “serious drug problem.”
Playing an audio clip of the iconic quote, “I wish [...]

Do Wingnuts Hate Snopes.com?

Posted: Friday, December 21st, 2007 @ 5:58 pm in Misc | 1 Comment »

Question: Do all wingnuts hate the Urban Legends Reference Pages, a.k.a. Snopes.com?
I’m asking because the Costco Coulter recently slammed that site in an angry aside:
(No, I did not check the fallacious Snopes, which needs to be Snoped, itself. They get so many things wrong, and I’m not sure who appointed these liberals at that [...]

The Three Best Defunct Blogs

Posted: Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 @ 6:01 pm in Misc | 4 Comments »

I’m still dreaming that these three blogs will be back one day:

Mykeru (gone from the Internet)
Buck Hill (last post 2007/03/31)
Dadahead (last post 2006/04/27)

Habesha Y2K

Posted: Wednesday, September 12th, 2007 @ 3:13 am in Misc | No Comments »

Today, 12 September 2007, is the first day of the year 2000 in Ethiopia, where they still use a variant of the Coptic calendar.

The world’s worst driver?

Posted: Friday, September 7th, 2007 @ 2:06 pm in Misc | No Comments »

How about a guy who:

smokes some crack in a motel room before rocketing down the highway at speeds of up to 100 mph,
tells his terrified passenger that he “doesn’t give a fuck” if he hits another car or a pedestrian,
proceeds to huff on computer keyboard cleaner while driving,
crashes his car into another vehicle,
ditches his passenger [...]

Allah Fish, meet God Eggplant - UPDATED

Posted: Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 @ 7:51 pm in Misc | 2 Comments »

Remember the “Allah fish,” readers? There was one last May, and another one last March. Now we English-speakers have our own orthographic representation of the Divine Being appearing away from the printed page:

Felicia Teske of Boothwyn says she was preparing fried eggplant for dinner Sunday evening and noticed that the seeds in one [...]

Comic Strip Generator

Posted: Tuesday, August 14th, 2007 @ 5:37 am in Misc | 1 Comment »

Strip Generator is the shit.
Here’s an example I made for the Unilang website forum. Cool that they use PNG images, as they are standard and unencumbered by patents. Sorry, it’s inside humor, but you get the idea:

[click to enlarge]

Thursday-Night Schadenfreude: Crazy Pammy In Tears Edition

Posted: Thursday, August 9th, 2007 @ 11:31 pm in Misc | 6 Comments »

LOL, readers:
While probing the murder of car salesman Collin Thomas outside the showroom of Universal Auto World in Lawrence, L.I., in January, cops unraveled what they said was a massive scam at the dealership.
Employees at Universal allegedly stole and bought identities, then used the IDs to obtain at least $1.3 million in financing for [...]

The Internship from Hell

Posted: Friday, July 27th, 2007 @ 1:32 pm in Misc | No Comments »

A 22-year-old Ohio IT intern says he’s being made out to be the “scapegoat” in a case of 800,000 stolen Social Security numbers.
The problem started with the fact that the “offsite” backup tapes usually spent the night in somebody’s car:
A 22-year-old intern said today he’s the “scapegoat” for the loss of over 800,000 social security [...]

The creepiest face ever?

Posted: Tuesday, June 26th, 2007 @ 6:07 pm in Misc | No Comments »

Readers, have you ever seen a creepier human being than this?

That’s Curtis Michael Allgier, a prison inmate who allegedly killed a corrections officer during the course of an escape attempt yesterday.
I like tattoos, and have three of them myself, but come on — who would do this to their face? Only somebody who felt [...]