The Daily Show marveled at Fox News’s obsession with this topic and and had fun with Bill O’Reilly’s weird beliefs about the dangerous joint addictions of young people with marijuana and texting. [Read more…]
Nice redrawing of the global landmasses.
Some people clearly have way too much time on their hands.
R. Albert Mohler is a highly influential evangelical Christian theologian. He confirms what I wrote about earlier, that the new evangelical push to join the Catholics against contraception is not some random deviation from more pressing concerns but is definitely being pursued as a major component of a long term strategy. [Read more…]
I wrote recently about services like Wickr and Silent Circle that have systems that prevent (or at least highly hinder) the ability of the NSA and other US government agencies to spy on their members’ communications. Nico Sell is the head of Wickr and in an article Max Eddy has Sell explain how their operating model prevents them from being complicit with the government in snooping. [Read more…]
The Daily Show’s Jon Stewart hails from New Jersey and knows something about its hardball politics. He is disappointed in governor Chris Christie’s behavior over the bridge closings, saying that it is far below the state’s extremely high standards of political retribution and vindictiveness. [Read more…]
Apparently your responses to 12 apolitical questions can reveal your political leanings. After doing it, you can check the rest of the article that explains the reasoning behind it. Of course, these things are meant just for fun. The whole uniaxial liberal-conservative spectrum is itself problematic.
I came out as 67% liberal, 33% conservative.
Some of you may have read about the spectacular rage that jewelry designer Jenny Lauren flew into on a plane that resulted in her chasing the poor flight attendant into the first class cabin, screaming obscenities, and assaulting not only her but others who came to her assistance. The niece of Ralph Lauren caused such a ruckus that they had to actually divert the plane, which was on transatlantic flight between Barcelona and New York, and make an emergency landing in Ireland, where she was dutifully arrested and charged. [Read more…]