NY Times Thinks the Glass is Fourteen Percent Empty
The NY Times is headlining that 1 in 7 of the released detainees return to terrorist activities. That's 14 percent.
The truth is also that 86 percent of the detainees have not returned to terrorist activities.
While I'm not saying that the 74 people who have returned to doing bad things (although if you read the article it's up in the air what "returning to terrorist activities" means) aren't important, I am impressed with those other 462 released detainee who haven't returned (or maybe were never Read more [...]
Is Horse Meat Countable?
It also astonishes me that no matter how open I am variations in cultures, and even having lived in the culture for nearly a year, I am always trapped into seeing things through my own culture. Read more [...]
BBC Announces that Bush Backs McCain…
McCain's Mom thinks McCain is great!! Why the BBC thinks this is in any way news worthy is beyond me. This just in: Bush and McCain have both come out in favor of America. Both McCain and Bush are pro-America. Read more [...]
America's Biggest Threat is America
For instance, the GAO (Government Accountability Office), which is probably the single most useful office in the government, just set up a bogus company and got a license to buy all the things they'd need for a dirty bomb. Read more [...]
Where is Capitalism Anyway
The concept of the free market is that those who can't survive in business are pushed out of the market, however through intellectual property management any company that has established itself can remain on artificial life-support by abusing the system through lawsuits that either give failing businesses a cut of their competition's income or by blocking that competition altogether. Read more [...]
Imus Isn't the Problem
The problem with Imus is that he said something stupid and now people want to talk about what he said, and once the media is through with him we will all pretend America is alright again. If they really cared about the issues and not the entertainment value of what Imus said they would be discussing these issues in relation to Don Imus. Read more [...]
A Little Something Extra
Extras is another one of Ricky Gervais's projects and let me tell you, it is funny in that beautifully painful way that it seems only Gervais can really make work. bbc, comedy, extras, good tv, hbo, ricky gervais, sitcoms, tv Read more [...]
One of the Many Reasons Billy Bragg is Great
Bourgeois Blues by Leadbelly me and my wife went all over town and everywhere we'd go people turned us down Lord, in a bourgeois town woo it's a bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues gonna spread the news all around me and my wife we were standing upstairs we heard a white man say "I don't want no niggers up there" lord, he's a bourgeois man woo bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues gonna spread the news all around home of the brave, land of the free I don't wanna be mistreated by no bourgeoisie lord, in a bourgeois town woo the bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues gonna spread the news all around me and my wife went all over town and everywhere we'd go people turned us down Lord, in a bourgeois town woo it's a bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues gonna spread the news all around them white folks in Washington they know how to call a colored man a nigger just to see him bow lord, it's a bourgeois town woo the bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues I'm gonna spread the news all around I tell all the colored folks to listen to me don't try to find you no home in Washington, DC `cause it's a bourgeois town woo the bourgeois town I got the bourgeois blues I'm gonna spread the news all around Bush War Blues by Billy Bragg If you're worried about Iraq I'll tell you this one thing I'm certain this war is gonna make the whole world safe for Haliburton I got the Bush war blues I got them Bush war blues I got the Bush war blues I'm gonna spread the news all around well they spent a trillion dollars on this illegal war could paid all the social security for a hundred years or more I got the Bush war blues I got them Bush war blues I got the Bush war blues I'm gonna spread the news all around we've got to find some moderate muslims with whom we can converse might be an idea if we try to find some moderate christians first I got the Bush war blues I got them Bush war blues I got the Bush war blues I'm gonna spread the news all around here's my simple message to our soldiers overseas wanna bring them back from Baghdad send them to New Orleans I got the Bush war blues I got them Bush war blues I got the Bush war blues I'm gonna spread the news all around well damn this war on terror this invasion of Iraq let's declare war on poverty cut the working poor some slack I got the Bush war blues I got the Bush war blues I got the Bush war blues I'm gonna spread the news all around yeah, spread the news cute little smile curly hair it's George Bush's poodle goddamn Tony Blair I got the Bush war blues I got the Bush war blues I got the Bush war blues I'm gonna spread the news all around billy brag, blues, bourgeois blues, bush war blues, class, iraq, leadbelly, music, politics, war, class Read more [...]
I think this is funny
It wasn't all that great anyway, it just announce a talk being given at Harvard with a $15 admission (I was trying to point towards issues of access to important dialogs, education, etc in America) class, classism, privilege Read more [...]
Non-Profit Funding (notes)
I like to give to charity, but my little means makes it so that I can only give a little and what little I can give I like to break up among important issues. The Greenpeace hard sell was extra insulting because the fella implied that I should have given to him instead of buy my new shoes which I needed to keep my feet dry after four days of straight rain, which I explained to him. Read more [...]
