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...
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...
Well, this sounds like a familiar story... a teacher with some Muslim students tells her students that they can replace "Jesus" in a Christmas song with "virtue," and everyone gets in a tizzy. Sounds like something that could be happening anyway in Anglo-North America, doesn't it. But there is a fine twist to this one. It's happening in Italy ... one of the great centers of the Catholic world. And the Pope is not amused. Neither is the Mayor of the town where this happened or the brother ...
Michael Moore has confirmed he is working on a sequel to F 9/11 called F 9/11 1/2 with the backing of Harvey Weinstein which will be ready in 2-3 years, which is going to be largely the same targets as the original film. Moore's rationale, in his own words: We want to get cameras rolling now and have it ready in two, three years. We want to document it. Fifty-one per cent of the American people lacked information (in this election) and we want to educate and enlighten them. They weren...
I think all this partisan mudslinging should end pretty quick.... the elections over already, and we should start concentrating on more important things. I am looking forward to return of the halcyon days when the left, right and center could agree that all politicians are basically all intrustworthy scum and no matter who gets in office, well, you are getting screwed over in some way or another. Is that too much to ask? Let's go back to those days when politicians were people who were to...
" A man never lies so much as after a hunt, during a war or before anelection. " -Otto Von Bismarck With the election day voting just mere hours from starting, itstarted me thinking about those very words uttered by Chancellor Otto vonBismarck in the late 19th century, and look in retrospect at the actions of both Kerry and Bush in thiscampaign and in their careers and private lives. So let's start with the hunt. Now, it would be easy to talk about George W. B...