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Category Archives: America
The Presidential Candidates’ Net Worths
April 14, 2008 – 4:13 pm
For the curious, here are the net worths of the U.S. presidential candidates, as reported in Ramit Sethi’s blog, I Will Teach You to be Rich:
Taken from I Will Teach You to be Rich.
As one wag put it: “Yeah, Obama’s clearly the one we should be pointing out as the elitist candidate.”
Sex Scandal Cheat Sheet
March 24, 2008 – 11:14 am
Since it’s going to be a hellzapoppin’ election year in the United States, it’s likely that we haven’t seen the last of the political sex scandals as each candidate’s team is probably digging up dirt on the opposition. You might find Matt Bors’ little cheat sheet below handy…
Comic by Matt Bors.Click the comic to see [...]
Hello, American Readers! Get Out There and Vote!
March 4, 2008 – 11:59 am
(And remember, if you’re voting Democratic, vote for Obama.)
John McCain’s Favourite Joke
March 1, 2008 – 11:00 pm
The folks at ZUG came up with an interesting little exercise. They sent a letter purportedly from a ten-year-old student to America’s 100 senators asking each what his or her favourite joke was. You can check out their site to see the complete set of results.
Senator John McCain’s joke was popular with ZUG’s readers; in [...]
The Barack Obama Conspiracy Photo
February 28, 2008 – 12:25 pm
It’s been circulating around the net for some time, but just in case you hadn’t yet seen it, here it is:
Photo courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele.
TSA Gangstaz
February 27, 2008 – 2:43 pm
In just over a week, I’m going to have to face off against the TSA Gangstaz (warning: It’s a rap video — contains some not-safe-for-work language)…
[Thanks to Jeff "Coding Horror" Atwood for the link!]
Funniest Line About Bill Buckley I’ve Heard All Day
February 27, 2008 – 2:20 pm
A wag who goes by “monobrau” said: “He was a douchebag, but the current crop of conservatives are colostomy bags.”
Second funniest line: “Gore Vidal Wins!”
R.I.P. William F. Buckley, Jr.
February 27, 2008 – 1:13 pm
In this present time, when “conservative” and “intellectual” are increasingly less likely to be used in the same sentence, I have to note the passing of William F. Buckley Jr., who has been described as someone who (as Weekly Standard editor William Kristol puts it) “legitimized conservatism as an intellectual movement and therefore as a [...]
Super Tuesday Post #2
February 5, 2008 – 10:45 am
Barack Obama has a posse…and Larry Lessig’s in it. Click here or the image below to go to Larry Lessig’s blog, where he’s posted a video titled 20 Minutes or So On Why I am 4Barack.
“Posse” image courtesy of OBEY.
Super Tuesday Post #1
February 5, 2008 – 10:27 am
Courtesy of Boing Boing and photographed by Sean Bonner in Los Angeles, here’s what’s quite possibly the most plain-and-simple political poster you’ll see:
Click the photo to see the original on its Flickr page.
My Favourite Political T-Shirt: “Bros Before Hoes”
January 28, 2008 – 12:35 pm
T-Shirt Hell makes some outrageously offensive (but sometimes funny) t-shirts, and this one’s my current favourite:
Click the photo to see the order page.
Perhaps We Shouldn’t Have Welcomed Them as Liberators
January 14, 2008 – 2:24 pm
Over at the blog Cathartic Relief, there’s an interesting alternate-future-history story that takes place 8 years after the Chinese invaded America in the summer of 2008. I’m sure it’ll get readers riled up in all sorts of different ways; feel free to sound off in the comments!
Some excerpts:
It’s been eight years now. Eight long years. [...]
