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Month: December, 2008

(Almost) Daily Linker – 12/31/08

Sorry about the intermittant posting, folks. You know, the ‘holidays’ and all. But here’s what I’ve found for you today. Canada Ontario takes top honours for Nanny State-of-the-year. Canadian soldiers are being investigated for “improper conduct” in death of suspected insurgent. World New Year’s celebrations in much of the Arab world have been canceled to [...]

100 word movie review: Gran Torino

Clint Eastwood has made some great movies, with more than a few landing in my top 25. So I was excitied to see Gran Torino, Eastwood’s latest actor/director effort. Internet scuttlebutt billed this as a “Dirty Harry 6″, where Clint goes after ne’er-do-wells in one last shoot ‘em up action flick. Wrong. This is a thoughful, quiet film about [...]

Republican shocked, shocked about outrage over racist song

Champion moron and candidate for the RNC chairman Chip Saltsman (also: what grown man calls himself  “Chip”?) has been distributing copies of the song “Barack the Magic Negro” to support his campaign. Here’s a sample of this supremely unfunny and entirely racist ’satire’, written by some white, racist hack named Paul Shankman: Nice one, Chipster. Like [...]

Daily Linker – 12/29/08

And we’re back! Christmas was fun, but it’s time I return to the RSS mines. World Dick Cheney doesn’t understand why people think he’s an evil bastard. Really, Dick? Really? Sarah Palin has demanded PETA remove an online videogame where people throw snowballs at her. Dumb, socially conservative and no sense of humor: the lucrative [...]

Christmas Eve Linker – 12/24/08

Canada Detroit has been stealing Canadian water since 1964. Time to go all 1812 on their asses. US Ambassador declares Canadian political crisis is over. Butt out, Buttinsky. World Christmas is for everyone. Even famous atheists. Turns out, Jesus was a pretty popular name back in 1BC. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to give UK Christmas broadcast. Wait, [...]

Low blogging advisory: deck the halls edition

Hello, dear Nunc Scions. As you may be aware/are currently trying to ignore, the holiday week is upon us. Since I’ll be spending the better part of the day on the highway (going to Chicago), there will be no blogging today. I’ll be posting lightly over Christmas, so stay tuned. And if I don’t see [...]

Be the bigger man, Bush.

George W. Bush must be getting pretty depressed. I mean, if my legacy were a burned-over wasteland painted with tears, I’d be bummed too. But amidst disastrous foreign wars and economic collapse, perhaps there is a little solace from an unlikely source: the guy who whipped his shoes at the soon-to-be ex-President. Muntadar al-Zeidi has [...]