Entries from June 2009

June 30, 2009

Finally!

Let the fun begin…

Bill O won’t be the only one Franken drives totally f#@%ing crazy (or should I say, crazier).
Update: Speaking of which…

June 30, 2009

Words That Don’t Go Together

Just sayin’
If you haven’t already, Scott Feschuk’s hilarious piece this morning on Senator Duffy’s “journey of discovery” is well worth checking out.

June 29, 2009

Pat Buchanan vs Global Warming

The climate change “controversy” certainly does make for strange bedfellows, doesn’t it?

Blame it on the Illuminati. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

June 28, 2009

Dumb as Dirt

Perhaps if the hottie from the TD Bank had dropped his green Speedo® maybe poor old “Right as Rain” wouldn’t have been so appalled.
What’s rather amusing about the Right One’s “awful” outrage (amongst other things) is the claim that “the first Google search for Pride 2009 pictures yielded me these shocking examples.” Oh really? [...]

June 28, 2009

The Purpose of Purpose

From Dawkins’ American lecture tour this spring:
“We humans are obsessed with purpose. The question, “What is it for?” comes naturally to a species surrounded by tools, utensils and machines. For such artifacts it is appropriate, but then we go too far. We apply the “What is it for?” question to rocks, mountains, stars or the [...]

June 28, 2009

Tim Who?

Briefly scanning posts from various Bloggin’ Tories yesterday, it seems many of them are quite enthused about Tim Hudak, the new leader of the Ontario Progressive Conservative Party.
A spirited supporter of George W. Bush and the illegal war in Iraq, Hudak is apparently a flat taxer who believes in the public funding of [...]

June 27, 2009

Real Time: New Rules

Update: Parody ad from Friday’s show.

June 27, 2009

Saturday Morning Toon

WARNING: Not recommended for small children.

June 26, 2009

Sanford & Sin

Who’s to blame for Mark Sanford’s affair? The governor perhaps? Not according to Rush Limbaugh!

Good grief, the man is certifiable.

June 25, 2009

Jackson Farewell Tour Cancelled

Show “overtaken by crushing irony” says press agent.
Pop singer and freaky side-show attraction Michael Jackson gamely announcing his “final curtain call” tour back in March at the O2 Arena:
This is it. This is it. These will be my final shows, performances, in London. This is it. And when I say this is it, [...]