You’d think that after all the huffing and puffing they’d been doing about the “War on Christmas” that Fox News would actually do as they said…
Category Archives: Life/My High Horse
Alpine Qaeda!
December 18, 2006 – 8:31 pm
It shouldn’t come as a surprise that the Drummond Sweater company isn’t around any more, what with ads like this (click the ad below to see it at full size):
Click the ad to see it at full size. Thanks to Miss Fipi Lele and deepdisco for the picture.
The copy reads like something that the Mullah [...]
But It Goes So Well with the Traditional Firewater-and-Coke and the Sacred Honey-Roasted Peanuts
December 18, 2006 – 8:09 pm
[via Colby Cosh] I think Colby put it very well when he wrote:
Do Health Canada and Cancer Care Ontario hate tobacco? Of course they do. But when questions of cultural relativism enter the picture, it turns out there’s tobacco, and then there’s tobacco.
Here’s the site to which he was referring:
Sassafraz and Schadenfreude
December 14, 2006 – 4:54 pm
Sassafraz
Photo by David Topping. Click to see the original on its page.
For those of you not familiar with Accordion City, Sassafraz was a restaurant in the tony boutique area of town known as Yorkville. The place had a reputation for so-so food at ridiculous prices (I’ve had brunch and lunch there, and yeah, you can [...]
Audio Advent Calendar #11: The "Studio 60" Version of "O Holy Night"
December 11, 2006 – 6:06 pm
Of all the religious Christmas carols out there, O Holy Night is my hands-down favourite. To my ears, it has the most beautiful melody and progression, and it works its magic whether sung or played, done solo or in a giant chorus.
It’s also a Christmas carol with a lot of history. It was originally a [...]
Everything You Need to Know About Guys, Explained in a Single Paragraph
December 8, 2006 – 3:57 pm
One of the interesting side effects of writing funny if somewhat embarrassing dating stories is that people start coming to you for dating advice. If you Google for the phrase “master of dating”, the first page of results points to an Alex Payne blog entry which categorizes me as such. This has only increased since [...]
Survival
December 5, 2006 – 4:22 pm
One story that will stick with me forever is Jack London’s short story of winter survival, To Build a Fire. It seemed as if it was on the curriculum of every Canadian grade school when I was a young teenager, and I’m sure everyone who’s taken a winter survival course was told to read it [...]
Throw in Kirk Cameron or Tina Yothers, and You Have the Perfect Storm
December 4, 2006 – 5:01 pm
People actually attend this musical? And pay money?
(For those of you who are going “Adrian who?“: he was the young sidekick in T.J. Hooker.)
I can only come to this conclusion: Musical theatre must be destroyed. Who’s with me?
BenQ’s Tasteless MP3 Player Promo
December 4, 2006 – 4:47 pm
Update: Hey, BenQ’s yanked the site! Serves me right for not blogging it this weekend.
Here’s something that they fail to mention in university: cultural insensitivity isn’t the sole domain of mighty whitey. Check out the promo site that Taiwanese electronic manufacturer BenQ set up for their MusiQ MP3 player:
“What, too soon?” Screenshot of BenQ’s site [...]
Two Groups, One Definition
December 4, 2006 – 4:23 pm
“Social justice,” writes my sometime blog sparring partner Kathy “Relapsed Catholic” Shaidle, ” is the endless concoction by incompetent people of unworkable solutions to imaginary problems.”
It’s also an apt description for the people currently behind U.S. policy, foreign and domestic…
Click to see the comic on its GoComics page.
Supertelevangelistic Sex-and-Drugs Psychosis
November 15, 2006 – 6:54 pm
If you remember Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious from the Mary Poppins movie and if you’ve heard of the Pastor Ted scandal, you’ll love Supertelevangelistic Sex-and-Drugs Psychosis!
The song is performed by Spaff, and you can download it here [1.8 MB].
Here are the lyrics — feel free to sing along!
I used to be a master of the anti-gay [...]
File This Under "Classy Parents Raising Classy Children"
November 8, 2006 – 10:19 pm
Here’s a still from the video of Rick Santorum’s concession speech in which his son fails the Kobayashi Maru Test:
Click to see the original. Thanks to Richard for pointing me to the photo!
As Wonkette puts it in a post titled Rick Santorum’s Two Dozen Kids Hate You:
There are so, so many things to love about [...]
The Best Comment and Photo on Last Night’s U.S. Midterm Elections…
November 8, 2006 – 6:44 pm
The best comment on last night’s U.S. midterm elections comes from Jonah Goldberg of the National Review:
I for one welcome our new Democratic overlords. I’d like to remind them that as a trusted rightwing personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
As for the best photo from [...]
Chuck Norris Identifies the One Man Who Can Kick His Ass
November 2, 2006 – 5:49 pm
Chuck Norris has been riding a wave of fame recently thanks to the “Chuck Norris Facts” meme that’s been floating around the ‘net for the past little while. He’s parleyed it into appearances on talk shows, and now he’s got a columnist gig over at the WorldNetDaily, the online rag that’s so right-wingnut that even [...]
Extended Warranties are for Suckers
November 2, 2006 – 5:34 pm
That’s another article I’ve posted over at Global Nerdy. Read it and remember it, especially when you go Christmas shopping for high-tech goodies.
Bobbing for Apples, Cheney-Style and "Dilbert’s" Change of Mind
November 1, 2006 – 1:06 pm
It’s a day late, but here’s an amusing Hallowe’en comic courtesy of Miss Fipi Lele:
In torture-related news, Dilbert creator Scott Adams — whose opinion matters among the educated, rationalist, leaning-towards-libertarian crowd (geeks, technologists and such) — has shifted slightly in his opinion on torture, from “pro” to “undecided”:
The media have trotted out expert after expert [...]
