A new poll has come out which tells us pretty much what we suspected all along: Eighty-six percent of people in Britain aged 18 to 30 think the French deserve “a popular negative stereotype,” suggests an opinion poll conducted for an Anglo-French art show in London. That compares to 27 percent of like-aged people in [...]
A high school in Amherst, New Hampshire has banned the use of the term “freshmen” as possibly being misogynistic, oppressive or non-inclusive language: Amherst Regional High School has banished the term “freshman”- a move the principal calls overdue, but some students say oozes political correctness. Beginning this year, students in ninth grade are now referred [...]
As some of you know, my wife and I have a cat named Ernie. Ernie is 15 years old and has had quite a bit of health-related issues in his lifetime. He has had three surgeries to treat his crystal problem in his digestive tract, as well as the typical declawing (he is a pure [...]
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As many people stated in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, a House committee found Louisiana Governor Kathleen Blanco was responsible for dead bodies going uncollected for over a week around New Orleans: Bodies of people killed by Hurricane Katrina went uncollected for more than a week in the New Orleans area as the federal [...]
Take a look at the picture of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as it appeared in USA Today: Now look at the actual photograph, before alteration: Here’s USA Today’s “explanation”: Editor’s note: The photo of Condoleezza Rice that originally accompanied this story was altered in a manner that did not meet USA TODAY’s editorial standards. [...]
Everyone’s favorite has-been Al Franken has stopped taking his medication again: “And so basically, what it looks like is going to happen is that Libby and Karl Rove are going to be executedâ€? because “outing a CIA agent is treason,â€? left-wing author and radio talk show host Al Franken asserted Friday night, to audience laughter, [...]
In an effort to further bring shame and embarrassment to her son and family, Cindy Sheehan has announced her next publicity stunt: Cindy Sheehan, the military mother who made her son’s death in Iraq a rallying point for the anti-war movement, plans to tie herself to the White House fence to protest the milestone of [...]
Howard Dean is letting his mouth out of it’s cage again, with typical results: “The first thing we’re going to do is we’re going to have ethics come back to Washington again,” said Dean, the keynote speaker at Saturday night’s annual fundraising dinner for the Maine Democratic Party at the Lewiston Armory. To deal with [...]
“I’m going off the rails on the crazy train!” Ozzy Osborne Roseanne Barr has started to mentally deteriorate before the public’s eyes: Kimmel: “I think President Bush has decided certain things and I don’t think there’s any convincing him. Just like other people, just like, maybe you’ve decided things and he probably couldn’t convince you [...]
The Church of Scientology has told a parody web site to change it’s domain name or else. Some things just aren’t funny — at least to the Church of Scientology. A New Zealand-based website that says it is devoted to “exposing Tom Cruise’s moronic behavior in his relentless crusade to promote the Church of Scientology” [...]
It seems that all of those poor evacuees from Hurricane Katrina had an urgent need for your tax dollars: Hurricane Katrina evacuees hastily handed $2,000 in federal relief money last month have been living it up on Cape Cod, blowing cash on booze and strippers, a Herald investigation has found. Herald reporters witnessed blatant public [...]
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