I can’t help but feel in the next election, as in most elections, that Americans face a choice not between someone decent and someone indecent, but between two indecent options. Moloch or Baal? Moloch or Baal? But at least they can laugh about it. And this is frighteningly brilliant. In fact, just look at everything at JibJab. I had a lot of fun there. The “Geezers” section under “Animations” is especially fun… Found a link to JibJab on cathartidae.
Tag: politics
Woojay’s piece
For those who can read Korean, Woojay from wonderful Blog of the Pythi Master has written an article about the blog/video ban for the Korean edition of OhMyNews. Pass the link on to as many Koreans, netizen or otherwise, as you can. The word should get out about this. Maybe the netizens might actually start caring about their civil rights, or construing it as a civil rights issue in the first place.
The Artist’s Statement on Brown Equals Terrorist
This kind of story just bothers me.
The Goods and Bads of Globalization
Thomas P.M. Barnett comments on Ethnic cleansing the old-fashioned way in Sudan. Rape is being used as a means of ethnic cleansing there, now, meaning black women are raped in the hopes that they’ll have brown babies, in effect destroying the black population. Sick, sick stuff. Barnett comments: When I get emails from people trying to shame me on my belief that globalization is a good thing because it creates connectivity that engenders binding rules sets and ultimately peace, instead offering the view that globalization is nothing more than economic slavery, I always try to keep places like Sudan in …
Canadian Water: Waiting Makes Sense
You know, the fact that people have forecast a world shortage of fresh water sometime in the 21st century is interesting. More so when you see something like this: Canada has only a half percent of the world’s population but it holds one-fifth of the planet’s freshwater supply, half of which is renewable. The article makes a big deal of complaining about the ostensible suppression of the bulk freshwater export industry, but I think holding off makes sense. If you set up everything now, you run a big risk of establishing what will become the world’s most lucrative trade, at …
Shiten Sheperdes
I’m guessing that in a few hundred years, most Catholics will have gone the way of the Quebecois, except farther. Why? Because there are actually Church officials who can describe a “vast cache” of child pornography as “a childish prank”, and can describe a situation where seminarians and their seminary leaders are cavorting sexually as resulting from “wrong personnel decisions”. I didn’t think that the etymological root of the word “seminary” was semen… What do I predict? As more and more of this garbage surfaces, Catholics will continue self-identifying as Catholic, but begin to distance themselves from the Roman Catholic …
Cowboys, Balls, And What America Seems To Have Forgotten About Its Own History
I woke to a text message on my phone and couldn’t get back to sleep, so I did a little reading on some of the feeds I’ve set up on my Bloglines account, and I got stuck on one post and the comments that were posted in response to it. Over at Gweilo Diaries, Conrad is of the opinion that “Gloria Arroyo has no Balls”. He writes: In a craven display of spinelessness, demonstrating that it is not a serious nation and guaranteed to put the lives of its citizens in future danger, the Philippine government released the following statement yesterday… …
I’m Convertid! (Not!)
Having been to the States recently, it’s difficult for me to be so blasé about the certain doom that I feel is facing the country. Having spent time with such wonderful people there, having seen their kids, having walked their streets unmolested and having been treated relatively nicely by most of the strangers I met (with the exception of one bar’s gatekeeper, and an old guy who shouldered me and then looked as if it was my fault in the airport), it’s hard to stay objective and say, look, your government’s gonna get you all in such deep trouble you’ll …
Flashing Against Bush
Women who go about baring their panties to overthrow George Bush Jr.? They’re after my own heart! The Axis of Eve is a coalition of brazen women on a mission to EXPOSE and DEPOSE President Select George W. Bush and his deceitful administration. Convinced that effective political action can be irreverent and exciting, we have launched a titillating campaign of TRUTH-FLASHING coordinated around our provocative line of protest panties. Sure, it looks to me as if the political panties-and-t-shirt market might be as lucrative as it is subversive, but it’s also creative and the marches they put on offend the …
Garbage Dumplings and The Ubiquitous Sickness
I wanted to post about this before I went on holiday, but I never got a chance. One day, as I was preparing dinner, Lime turned to me and informed me that I shouldn’t be buying dumplings anymore, not for a while anyway. What the hell was she talking about? She explained that what was supposed to be going into dumplings—mainly meat fillings, apparently—had been replaced by rotten Chinese vegetables which were supposed to have been disposed of in the trash. Bear in mind that in Korea, Chinese food products are considered to be (and may well be) lower than …