politics and government
greene for president in 2012?
there was a lot of speculation about fraud and other such nonsense when alvin greene won the democratic nomination for us senate in south carolina beating out a former judge who had been considered a shoo-in. no one knew anything about greene except that we was an unemployed veteran. greene has been a little more [...]
limiting the advancement of one colored person
the national association for the advancement of colored people (n.a.a.c.p.), the champion of civil rights can now take responsibility for the limiting of one colored person named shirley sherrod. ms. sherrod, up until yesterday, worked for the department of agriculture. she was forced to resign because a video of her giving a [...]
now you’re asking them to tell?
in an unprecendented move, the military is asking the forces what they think about gays in the military. they’re doing it by electronic survey distributed last week distributed to 400K active duty personnel. it’s unprecedented because they didn’t do this when, say, they were integrating the military or when they were including women and many [...]
tehran makes ‘the fonz’ cool
the iranians are in the news again. this time, they’ve released a set of approved haircuts for men, an alternative to the soon to be illegal decadent western haircuts like the mullet. according to time magazine “You’re in the clear if you have a short, conservative haircut – and you can use hair gel, just [...]
in under the radar…out under the wire
remember when we mentioned the spy ring last week? seems the f.bi. busted the ring when they figured out that one of the members of the spy ring was making a break for it–he was leaving the country. i think i know why he was checking out: next week, u.s. passport fees will increase. that’s [...]
south american ingenuity
the drug trade in colombia is alive and kicking–two instances over the past week prove this.
not-so-golden trophy: officials at the airport in bogota happened upon a replica of the world cup trophy that happened to be made out of, you guessed it, cocaine. the found trophy was headed for spain and was 35 cm in [...]
they have more restrictions on lindsay lohan
by now you’ve heard of the mr. and mrs. smith like existence of the russian spy ring caught by the f.b.i. this week. the f.b.i. had been following them for years and they’d been living happy suburban lives in virginia, new jersey, new york, and massachusetts. some of them had facebook accounts, many have kids, [...]
