Archive for the 'End of the Year Roundups' Category

Most Annoying Conservatives of 2005

Friday, January 6th, 2006

John Hawkins at Right Wing News has put together a list of the most annoying Conservatives in 2005. I pretty much agree with all of his choices, but here are my favorites:
14) Senator Ted Stevens: I demand that Alaska get to keep it’s pork or I’ll quit the Senate! It should have been bye-bye Ted!
4) [...]

2006 Banished Words List

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Lake Superior State University has released it’s list of banished words for the year 2006. Some of my favorites:
COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS – A five-dollar phrase on a nickel-errand. Value-added into many higher education mission statements. “Not to be confused with ‘school.’â€? – Jim Howard from Mishawa, Ind.
BREAKING NEWS – Once it stopped presses. Now [...]

America’s Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses

Tuesday, December 27th, 2005

The oraganization called Young America’s Foundation has released it’s annual list of 12 of America’s Most Bizarre and Politically Correct College Courses: Here’s a sample:
6. Harvard University’s Marxist Concepts of Racism examines “the role of capitalist development and expansion in creating racial inequality� (emphasis added). Although Karl Marx didn’t say much on race, [...]

Soulless Bastard of theYear

Monday, December 19th, 2005

The winner of the First Annual Conservative Dialysis Soulless Bastard of the Year Award© was a tough choice to make. However, a last-minute entry blew all of the others out of the water.
Honorable Mention: Ted Rall
Good old Ted was the front runner for most of the year. His tasteless, humorless, sick, and insulting editorial cartoons [...]

RWN: 10 Worst Quotes from the Democratic Underground

Monday, December 19th, 2005

John Hawkins at Right Wing News has published his 3rd Annual Listing of the 10 Worst Quotes from the Democratic Underground. My favorite:
7) Cronus Protagonist: “Will Karl Rove have to be suicided?
Once the election fraud comes out and it’s clear Roves fingerprints are all over it, and that it leads all the way to Bush’s [...]