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13-Year-Old Girl Sentenced To 90 Lashes In Saudi Arabia

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

The Daily Mail is reporting that: A 13-year-old girl has been sentenced to 90 lashes and two months’ prison in Saudi Arabia after she took a mobile phone to school. A court ordered the girl to be flogged in front of her classmates following an assault on the school principal, according to the Saudi daily newspaper... »

More of Danny Glover’s Blathering

Sunday, January 17, 2010

A little over four months ago, I posted about second-rate has-been Danny Glover’s idiotic decision to dabble in politics (if you thought he was bad at acting…). Well, it seems he can’t keep his big mouth shut for too long. Now, after the devastating disaster in Haiti, he amazingly came to the conclusion that he... »

Post-Modern Race Problem

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Shelby Steele wrote a great piece in yesterday’s WSJ describing our post-modern race problem: how our country’s past problem of white racism against blacks has slowly shifted into what is now whites overcompensating and bending over backwards to prove that they are not racist—and throwing common sense out the window in the process. He writes: America... »

Global Warming Hypocrites

Monday, November 30, 2009
Global Warming Hypocrites

I love to laugh at those global warming hypocrites. You know the ones I mean: those idiots you read about in the news or see on TV preaching about global warming, only to then head off stage into their waiting private jet. The most famous one is probably Al Gore, who came out with a... »

Dirty, Despotic Dubai

Monday, November 30, 2009

When most people think of Dubai, they think of the six-star hotels, the man-made islands, the indoor ski slopes… essentially the life of luxury. Of course, that life of luxury has a price and apparently, based on the recent stories coming from the international news wires, that price is way too high for Dubai... »

African-Ameri….um….

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

National Review had this gem in last issue’s The Week: If you think you can’t use the word “black,” and must use “African-American” instead, you may find that you can’t talk straight. At the 2002 Winter Olympics, an American woman won a gold medal in the bobsled. She was the first black woman ever to win... »

Agreeing With PETA: Sheer Torture

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

Should I start worrying about myself?  After all, for the second time in just 4 months I am actually agreeing with an issue PETA has raised! (See my post on Ringling Bros. Circus Abuse for the first such occasion.) Now, PETA has come out very strongly against a video on YouTube showing what is apparently... »

Fun With Google

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

I found this “armchair sociolinguistic analysis” of Google to be very interesting. Check it out! Tip of the ol’ fedora to my brother-in-law, Joey, for sending this my way. »

Pigs On The Subway

Tuesday, November 3, 2009
Pigs On The Subway

I just read a story on NBC New York about a fistfight on the NYC subway. Believe it or not, something like that is not actually common, although what prompted the fight is frustratingly common. Apparently, one woman started coughing without covering her mouth, prompting another woman, worried about the Swine Flu, to reprimand her... »

A Facebook “Graveyard”?

Tuesday, October 27, 2009
A Facebook “Graveyard”?

The AP is reporting that Facebook has decided to keep dead people as members as a matter of policy. In fact, they have drawn up a list of modifications to the account to accommodate obvious issues with it being owned by a dead person, such as: —The site will remove any contact information. —The site will... »

Ralph Lauren Doesn’t Know What A Woman Is

Friday, October 16, 2009
Ralph Lauren Doesn’t Know What A Woman Is

Apparently Ralph Lauren has no idea what a woman is, at least not the typical woman. The women in his world apparently have heads bigger than their waists and apparently subsist on several grains of rice per day. So, naturally, when one of his models makes the mistake of letting herself look normal, she... »

Super-Matriarch Passes Away

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

ABC’s Simon McGregor-Wood reports on a woman who passed away last week at the age of 99, leaving behind approximately 1,400 descendants! Rachel Krishevsky was 19 when she married her cousin Yitzik from within the ultra orthodox Haredi community in Jerusalem. The young couple then set about following the Jewish commandment to be “fruitful and... »

Outdoor Parks Smoking Ban In NYC?

Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Outdoor Parks Smoking Ban In NYC?

The Daily News is reporting today that Mayor Bloomberg is taking his crusade against smoking to public parks now. His previous crusade against smoking in restaurants and bars has been in effect for a while now and although it was quite controversial when it first came out, smokers, libertarians, and other opponents allowed it to... »

Obama Calls Kanye A “Jackass”

Monday, September 14, 2009

For once, I agree with Obama on something! Yesterday, I posted that Kanye West is an ass (an opinion with which I’m sure most of the world now agrees). Well, now Politico is reporting that Terry Moran, an ABC News employee, goofed today by tweeting an off-the-record comment by Obama, in which he called Kanye West a... »

The Greatest Shot In Tennis—Again

Monday, September 14, 2009

In what many are calling the greatest shot in tennis, Roger Federer hit the ball between his legs yesterday while running away from the net to chase an over-the-head shot from Novak Djokovic. This shot is unbelievable on its own, but the incredible irony is that the exact same shot was used against him four... »

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