I don't care which side of the Palestinian/Israeli debate you land on, this guy didn't do a fucking thing to deserve this.  Warning, this is emotionally intense.

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HT: Antiwar.com blog.

• Death knell for the full-size SUV: The General kills the replacement for the Escalade, Suburban and Yukon big utes.
• . . . on the other hand, plummeting gas prices have led to a small jump in truck and SUV sales.  Ford even plans to add more workers to one of its F-150 assembly plants to meet anticipated demand.
• GM looks to buy Chrysler from its ( Read more... )

The restaurant critic for The Times UK expresses his displeasure at having his copy edited indiscriminately and with blatant disregard for grammar, diction or style:

Dumbest, deafest, shittest of all, you have removed the unstressed 'a' so that the stress that should have fallen on "nosh" is lost, and my piece ends on an unstressed syllable. When ( Read more... )

Political LOL of the day:

Denver's City Council president is getting hammered with hate-filled messages in response to Tuesday's surprise performance of the "Black National Anthem" by a jazz singer during a city event ( Read more... )

s/gay/homosexual/g = major fucking lulz

ETA: Here's another, as yet uncorrected gem from the AFA's "gay" filter, this time referring to an NBA trade:

Memphis Grizzlies backers hit the hay hoping that Kevin Love would open things up for Rudy Homosexual in the frontcourt.

Already Memphis sports talk radio is touting the new Homosexual/Love combo.

I have to take this news with a rather large block of salt, but it's funny nonetheless:

Political activists planning protest rallies at the upcoming Democratic Convention in Denver have their stomachs in knots over a rumor about a crowd control weapon - known as the “crap cannon” - that might be unleashed against them ( Read more... )

Tyler Cowen, currently traveling in Japan, passes on this page of unusual business card designs.  Kevin Mitnick's is pretty awesome, but some of them seem way more gimmicky than useful.

Have you seen the video of Bill O'Reilly completely losing his shit during a taping of Inside Edition (these videos are NSFW)?  It gets even better remixed.  But ( Read more... )

A Missouri car dealer is offering a unique sales incentives to customers: buy a car, get $250 in gasoline or a handgun.

"Like I say, it's a choice -- protection or gas," said Walter Moore with Max Motors ( Read more... )

Glad to see that the House of Lords is focusing on the most pressing issues facing its nation: the thickness of sandwich bread.  Vector: Hit & Run.

Marc Andreessen checks in on new developments in artificial intelligence, including Microsoft's erstwhile "Santa-bot":

The idea was that you would add "northpole@live.com" to your kid's MSN Messenger ( Read more... )

Kudos to the Venezuelan electorate for (narrowly) coming to their senses and telling Hugo Chávez to fuck off for the moment.  Now let's see if Chávez actually honors their wishes.

In the other ring of the dictator president-for-life circus, election monitors in Russia contend that Vladimir Putin rigged the vote that gave his party 70 percent of ( Read more... )