I was on a political forum recently, and this quiz caught my eye. I know that quite a few little quizzes have been posted to the forums and in a lot of blogs, but given a lot of the discussions I've seen here, it seemed very appropriate. Are you a Neoconservative? My results said that I could be categorized as being one of many: Liberals… Are wary of American arrogance and hypocrisy Trace much of today's anti-American hatred to previous US foreign policies. Believe politi...
Someone sent me an interesting ad/movie today. Now, as you all know, I'm nota big fan of Bush, and I've rather enjoyed watching the Daily Show catch membersof his administration in lies and misrepresentations. The RNC-Bush/Cheney havebasically done that very same thing to Kerry about the Iraq War while I don'tlike who made it, it was admittedly well done, starting with his statements at the DNC that he would never mislead the country into war. It then goes through in order a number of stateme...
A very brief quiz to play around with. When I was looking at some of the other quizzes out there, the World's Smallest Political quiz kept coming up. Of course, it took me 4 or 5 more days to actually give it a shot. Anyway, on to my results: According to your answers, your political philosophy is: left-liberal Left-Liberal Left-Liberals generally embrace freedom of choice in personal matters, but support central decision-making in economics. They want the government to help the d...
On the island of Hong Kong, when you have a normal election, well, things move in the same way that they do in other democratic countries. But when there is a tie... well, that is when the real fun starts. In the event of a tie, instead of having a runoff election, the two tied candidates do something I thought was relegated to Shirley Jackson short stories and high school raffles.... they pick numbered Ping Pong balls from a bag... with the high ball winning the election. I guess they ra...
Al Franken has recently proposed a different way for individuals to vent their dislike of Bush in a relatively safe and harmless way. He has suggested that citizens who want to voice their disapproval of the current president to open their windows as he approaches the podium to accept the nomination and shout 'Fuggedaboudit!' or whatever term of negation is popular in your region of the country.... and unlike a lot of the other protest techniques that are being advocated by some groups that a...
I think the hunt for terrorists is getting a little too partisan now. I mean,I support going after terrorists, but if you go after everyone who holds adissenting view under increased scrutiny, well, then things are just going tostart turning to anarchy. And the first step in this slow decent into madnessoccurred a few weeks ago when Ted Kennedy became a suspected terrorist in theeyes the Department of Homeland Security. Who would have thought that Ted Kennedy of all people was a suspectedt...
The two shorter stories in question followed by my analysis. Comedy Central Unspins O'Reilly Determined not to be caught up in a spin zone created by Fox News Channel's Bill O'Reilly, Comedy Central on Monday refuted O'Reilly's assertion that the audience for the network's The Daily Show was composed of "stoned slackers." The channel extracted data from Nielsen Media Research to indicate that Daily Show host Jon Stewart's viewers are more likely to have completed college than O'Reilly...
Vanity Fair called Jon Stewart " the Dan Rather of infotainment "..... that is defamation of character that is! The very idea! That comparison debases everything that the Peabody and Emmy-award winning Daily Show stands for... and he shouldn't stand for that kind of slander and character assassination. I smell a lawsuit a-comin'.... Of course, he could always use such a quote to sell his book, America-The Book which could work despite the libelous overtones of that statement. But my ...
After weeks of antagonistic scrutiny, CBS and Dan Rather have both admitted culpability in the falsified National Guard memo scandal, and have revealed that it was in fact Bill Burkett who was the source of these same documents. Burkett has reputedly told CBS that he "deliberately misled" the network... and this interview will appear on tonight's(Monday) CBS Evening News. Furthermore, the president of CBS News remarked on the situation with the following: " Based on what we now know, CBS ...
After watching this Quicktime video does anyone get the feeling Bush doesn't understand what 'sovereignty' in this particular case means? Honestly, I haven't seen that kind of clarity in an answer since Jean Chretien said: "A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven."
Well, in these times of equal time for candidates, it wouldn't be fair to just make jokes at Bush's expense , so here is a short list of Kerry jokes from the Nightly talk shows, culled from the files of about.com "We make jokes about it but the truth is this presidential election really offers us a choice of two well-informed, opposing positions on every issue. OK, they both belong to John Kerry, but they're still there." —Jay Leno "John Kerry announced a fool-proof plan to wipe out...
There have been a lot of really good zingers against Bush in the past 4 years, and I thought it might be a good time to do a little bit of a list with the help of about.com! Here we go... "According to the recent polls, Bush has a slight lead over John Kerry. So today, Bush hung a banner over the White House saying, 'Mission Accomplished.'" —David Letterman "George W. Bush surrounds himself with smart people the way a hole surrounds itself with a donut." —Dennis Miller "Bush is sm...
I was having a discussion with someone last night, and I mentioned that Ioriginally wrote with my left hand, but as a child I was more than encouraged(rather forced) to use my right hand. The whole conversation made me think aboutthe connotations of "left", as it usually always associated withthings that were bad... like the Latin for left became ' sinister ' and aword like Right became the basis of adroit , meaning Dexterous or deft. And of course, you never say someone is out in right...
The following question was asked today on the Internet Movie Database: We're resurrecting one of our favorite polls from last year: You're making the road trip back to college. Which summer movie character do you least want calling "shotgun"? These were the choices Hitman Vincent (Collateral) Senator Eleanor Shaw (The Manchurian Candidate) Noah Percy, Village Idiot (The Village) Handsy Doc Ock (Spider-Man 2) Misfit Napoleon Dynamite (Napoleon Dynamite) Shapeshifting Prof...
I am sure that many of you here have just read something that someone else has said and it made you literally stop in awe of the sheer lack of forethought in a statement. I was flipping through a copy of "The Big Ideas of 2006", put out by Adbusters and I just happen to stop on a page with this gem on it: " When are we going to take action and truly stop this disease called civilization?" HUH? Since when did civilization become a DISEASE? Is it a mental disorder, a virus, a degener...