New Year’s Eve in 100 Seconds

Nice to finally see the backside of the last year. Good riddance!

Your mileage may have varied of course, but it was a fairly craptacular year by most standards (e.g., “global economic meltdown” amongst other shitty things that happened) and personally one that I’d rather forget for various reasons.
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The Process

What if there were no stop signs… and a major corporation was charged with inventing one?

A snapshot of life through the eyes of a Marketing manager… and yes, sad to report that the so-called “creative process” really does work this way quite frequently.

“Stunningly Superficial”

And one would expect anything else in the profoundly silly place formerly known as “Scarborough Country”?

Regarding Bush… Completely useless to the Bitter End.

Out the PPLC!

Does anyone have a current list of members from all parties that make up the “Parliamentary Pro-Life Caucus” (PPLC) that Conservative MP Rod Bruinooge (Winnipeg South) was recently “elected” to head up?
If almost half of Canadians (42 per cent, according to a recent Angus Reid poll) apparently want abortion to be subject to greater [...]

Stay Classy, Chip!

You have to love Don Lemon’s polite incredulity about the CD distributed by RNC chair candidate Chip Saltsman which included the now wearisome Barack the Magic Negro song.
“I’m not going to call anyone a racist here, but come on… these are grown men and you have to suffer the consequences of whatever you do. [...]

Falter Locust Palin

Ever wonder what would your name be if Sarah Palin was your mother? Well now you can find out!
Just for fun, a commenter decided to see what the Palin kids actual names would be using this generator: Track Palin = Crunk Petrol; Trig Palin = Molten Contra; Bristol Palin = Quarter Granite; Willow Palin = [...]

“Obama’s Playlist”

Oh no! Not another fantastically lame contest devised by the CBC braintrust to help “define” us… Urgh.
It seems that Canadians are being challenged by CBC Radio 2 to nominate 49 examples of our “mighty distinctive music.” (*cough*) for the next U.S. president “to groove to as he takes office Jan. 20.”
Good grief, how [...]

You Know, You Know

Glad I wasn’t the only one to notice Caroline Kennedy’s highly annoying “verbal tic” (according to Politico she said “you know” a staggering 138 times in her recent New York Times interview).

“It’s really, you know, it’s not about just the Kennedy name,” Kennedy said. Uh huh. Thank goodness she [...]

Tripps to Nowhere

Should we be in the least surprised that Bristol (named after a sheet of cardboard) has given birth to a bastard named “Tripp” sired by “Levi” (yes, rather unimaginatively named after the venerable brand of jeans, although the spelling is off) and whose uncles are “Trig” and “Track”?

Wasilla, AK: Meth [...]

“Proportionality” in 100 Seconds

Israel kept up its bombardment of Gaza overnight expanding its targets to include an Islamic university and government buildings. Witnesses said the Islamic University was struck at least six times and the interior ministry headquarters levelled by bombs.

Meanwhile… Palestinian Issa Abu Atta places chimes inside olivewood nativities at a crafters workshop [...]