oh bugger off
advertisers in great britain are on a roll this week. in addition to the ad we featured earlier, another ad popped up and angered the people there–it read “career women make bad mothers.” about it, one woman said “I am completely disgusted; the words completely put women down. In this day and age women do [...]
standard issue
by now you may have heard that states have eased education standards so that kids can graduate from high school–the tests were deemed too hard so they made them easier to pass “The real pattern in states has been that the standards are lowered so much that the exams end up not benefiting students who [...]
…and not with a “ph”
one week in to the new year, how’s it going with that resolution to lose some lbs? health-minded gym goers in the u.k. are no dount wondering if the gym overcrowding can be blamed on the new year’s resolution or on the posters advertising the country’s largest independent gym–the cadbury house hotel gym. ads for [...]
something suddenly came up…
‘…my nose, marsha brady-style’. that’s what italy’s prime minister silvio burlesconi thought when he was attacked by a crazy person in milan over the weekend. it seems the u.s. is not the only country with some security problems given that a man, identified as massimo tartaglia with some reported mental problems was able to knock [...]
i’ll never make fun of bill hemmer again
i’m always busting on flying fish, bill hemmer for being a faux reporter (or one that does the kinda fluff pieces like this one and this one). this, i think, ended after i saw this clip from the today show. al roker and matt lauer are reporting live from afghanistan and this is the news [...]
the burka and…pants?
everyone loves (or hates) the french and particularly the parisians because they are so, how do you say, eh, progressive? get a load of this–there’s a law on the books that prevents women from wearing pants–a law that’s been around in some form or another since 1800 (they modified it to allow for bike rides). [...]
cold war
so the russians want to eliminate snow and the chinese want to bring it and have done so, using a procedure called “cloud seeding.” cloud seeding is “dosing the atmosphere with silver iodide, a chemical solution either dropped from planes or shot up from the ground…the silver iodide particles supercharge cloud formation, as they [...]
