Chia Obama Uprooted from Store Shelves

Oh, God, I need sensitivity training! Patriots everywhere are mourning Walgreens’ decision to pull the Barack Obama Chia head from store shelves.  The fascist company decided the novelty item did not support their corporatey image. Hello?  WalGREENs?  Maybe they should change their name to WalYellows! CNN’s Jeanne Moos found some black folks that thought the [...]

Focus on the Perverts

::Big ol’ Schadenfreude Alert:: Focus on the Family lost one of their sheep to pedophile-tracker-downers.  42-year-old Juan Alberto Ovalle is the Spanish language narrator for Focus on the Family’s audio Bible. And apparently he had a hobby of pursuing sex with underage girls.  The Denver Post reports the long arm of the law caught up [...]

Eminem: We Made You

Eminem has always made me laugh.  He’s a great storyteller, and he actually uses video to advance his music rather than just showcase himself.  On his latest album, “Relapse,” he tweaks several celebrity noses and has a love romp with Sarah Palin….who you know he must abhor. The song is We Made You.  Just double [...]

Olbermann’s Tribute to his Mom

Keith Olbermann pays tribute To His Mother Who Died On Saturday, April 4th 2009. Marie Olbermann had been an aspiring ballerina, an expert on opera, and a preschool teacher, but her son highlighted her lifelong passion for baseball.   She enjoyed a stint of fame after being hit between the eyes by Yankee infielder Chuck Knoblauch.

Scenes from Devastation in Italy

As many as 70 thousand people are estimated to be homeless after an earthquake in Italy.  Rescue workers continue to search for survivors Tuesday.   The powerful earthquake destroyed much of the historic town of L’Aquila. Officials say at least 179 people were killed and 1,500 injured.  Damage has been reported as far away as [...]

Marriage Scrubbed Because Hubby Too Tidy

An obviously insane German woman divorced her husband on the grounds of him being too neat. ::Choke:: The wife says she was quite fed up with his 15 years of obsessive chore doing.  Plus, rearranging the furniture. What a dick, right?  Geez. The last straw came when Mr. Clean knocked down and rebuilt a wall [...]

My Money’s on Human Suffering

ht Dan So, 4,000 anarchists and anti-capitalists rally in London to protest the G-20 Summit.   Given the global financial crisis, I expected this lot to be in fine form, and they were.  And above is the ultimate money shot: smashing in the windows of the Royal Bank of Scotland. Great photography, poetic content, but [...]

Killer News Teases

more about “Killer News Teases“, posted with vodpod The “tease” in news is that 15 or 20 seconds just before a commercial break. A tease I took particular pleasure in writing was for an anchor who thought he didn’t have to read scripts before going on the air. The story was about Bush’s gutting the [...]