When Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize was announced, I thought it was a fairly silly choice by the Nobel Committee. Turns out it’s much worse; it’s actually quite perverse. I thought Obama shouldn’t have won the award because he’s still relatively new in office and hasn’t yet fulfilled the promise of his campaign. But Glenn Beck [...]
Entries Tagged as 'idiocy'
What Happens In Vegas
October 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Law and Justice, Technology
Yesterday I flew to Las Vegas for the second time this month. I was sitting in front of a loud, Eastern European couple. I couldn’t recognize the language they were speaking, but at one point in the middle of their impenetrable conversation, the man said in perfect English, “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas.” [...]
Tags: ACLU·airport·airport security·body scanner·idiocy·Las Vegas·millimeter wave technology·national security·privacy·Proust·Susan Hallowell·TSA·War on Terror
Pity the Fool
September 22nd, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice, Politics, Technology
For those of us no-name types, Twitter provides an outlet for the little germs of wisdom we come up with while drunk and/or pathetically lonely. For political types, however, Twitter is an easily mockable (and equally misguided) excuse for a soapbox. Josh Treviño (former Bush writer of some sort, who now runs a “strategies & [...]
Tags: 287(g)·ACLU·Border Patrol·civil liberties·conservative logic·idiocy·immigrant rights·Immigration·Josh Treviño·racial profiling·Texas·Twitter
Republicans Are In Bed With Utilities Lobbyists? (It’s Too Easy)
September 9th, 2009 · No Comments · AS, Politics
According to the LA Times: An Orange County lawmaker [Mike Duvall] who inadvertently broadcast explicit remarks about his sexual conquests over an open microphone during a lull in a Sacramento hearing abruptly resigned from office this afternoon. The famously conservative Republican Assemblyman was just having a little pre-hearing banter about his sexual exploits with a [...]
Tags: adultery·California Assembly·conservatives·hypocrisy·idiocy·KCAL·lobbyists·Mike Duvall·NY Times·OC Weekly·Orange County·political scandal·Republicans
Putting the Fun Back in Bruno: You’ll Laugh Forever for a Minute
July 13th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Arts and Entertainment
The other major topic of discussion after Bruno was how badly Paula Abdul comes off in the movie. One of my friends decided that, regardless of the truth, she needs to pretend like she was in on the joke, is a big Sasha Baron Cohen fan, loved Borat, and was willing to do anything to [...]
Tags: Bruno·idiocy·Paula Abdul
I Listen to Conservatives So You Don’t Have To
June 4th, 2009 · No Comments · AR, Politics
Driving home from work, I foolishly thought I might be able to find hockey on the radio in LA. I did, however, stumble across some typically fantastic conservative talk radio. First, some clown named Lars had Ann Coulter on the show. I only caught the tail end of the interview, as they mocked Barack Obama [...]
Tags: Al Sharpton·Ann Coulter·conservatives·hockey·idiocy·Lars