Category: Humor
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I have no good ideas for a meaningful post. I also have to report for jury duty today. So here are a few links to some stories that caught my eye in the past couple of days. I think there is something for everyone here. What’s in your wallet? : That pocketful of change you…
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Ruchira has animals on the brain, and now so do I. I thought immediately of her post "Liquid Explosives and Solid Lies" when I found this curious news item about trained bees being used to detect explosives. There go the hopes of all those corporations spending millions of dollars on developing complex detection equipment! And…
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In the comments section of my recent post regarding the bloody game of religion and politics, I asserted that despite the common Abrahamic roots of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, since the events of 9/11 and their aftermath, Islam is viewed with a more jaundiced eye in Judeo Christian America than the philosophically far removed, exotic…
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And now for some fluff after all those intense pre- and post-election ruminations. A quote from a dissatisfied tester of the latest innovation to chase age away , all for the paltry sum of $79/- only!! Be sure to read the whole article here, it will have you in splits! ‘Thank goodness I work from…
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I had decided not to publish any thing new today and leave the anniversary post at the top of the page for the rest of the day to attract comments from readers. But my co-blogger Dean just brought to my attention a recent White House press release that changed my mind in about half a…
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Nike is cashing in on the most famous moment of 2006 World Cup Soccer. A new ad shows the head butted Materazzi returning to the fray – braced for Zinedine Zidane or any thing else that might await him on the soccer field. This time Materazzi sports a shaven head – a new style of…
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And besides, the shirt can’t be any more dishonest than the Administration which now gets to make non-reviewable decisions about who it wants to declare enemy combatants so it can torture them, strip them of their habeas rights, and detain until "terror" has been everywhere defeated. Order your t-shirt here. (ht to Auguste)
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Whatever you are – white, black, Jewish, Indian, woman or a stamp collector, George Allen has an insult for you. He also has a weasely explanation for his loose lips. Play the game and see how the George Allen Insult Generator treats you. (I checked it out twice – there are more than one insult…
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Now a news report suggesting that Osama bin Bogeyman may have expired peacefully in his bed from a virulent bout of typhoid. Curiosity had me googling to check out the original French article which detailed the leak of classified French document which claimed that Saudi authorities ‘would have ‘ acquired information regarding Bin Laden’s demise …
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Jack Balkin has the funniest post on the George Allen – Jewish brouhaha. It involves another George. "Senator George Allen isn’t the only politician to be surprised about his religious heritage. Yesterday former First Lady Barbara Bush revealed to her son George that she had been raised as a Muslim. The President immediately went to…
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The annual UN General Assembly Session is under way in New York. World leaders, possessing varying degrees of power and reputation gather once a year, presumably to discuss solutions to world problems. Instead, big egos and small minds jockey on the world stage armed with grandiose postures and hot air. It is a bit like…
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