An ad that was
not quite thought through … About how
originality overwhelmed beauty.
A city in Montana [tried to] requires prospective employees
to hand over their Facebook™ passwords[, but has since
retreated from the idea].
Remembering
Farrah Fawcett.
Remembering Rocky
and The Karate Kid.
Asking
a spectacularly and offensively stupid question.
Broadway is struggling with the notion of
having some diversity … of opinion. About
that.
A newspaper ad campaign
using near-worthless Zimbabwean banknotes to print billboards has won an award.
The Oz Federal government
has set its sights on censoring computer games. Via
longi.
A piece on Michael Jackson, aka Wacko Jacko, published just before died. An obituary, on him
as a prisoner of fame. Apparently, he was consuming
lots of powerful pharmaceuticals, a result reported to be
confirmed by the autopsy. About
the awful physical decay and his greedy entourage. Having an entourage significantly drawn from the Nation of Islam "looking after" a gay man was not a good start.
More bullying from Canadian Human Rights (sic) apparatchik. How things
ended up. Mark Steyn
is happy to debate the CHRC: If you schmooze enough Third World thug states, it’s not surprising your postmodern cultural relativism starts to drift past the point of no return. As Commissar Lynch primly notes in her report, America’s First Amendment absolutism on free speech is out of step with the “growing global consensus”-that would be the “growing global consensus” represented by the CHRC and its “distinguished guests.” Take Sweden and Cameroon, split the difference, and that should be enough human rights for anyone.
The six-month old BBC Farsi service
has been a major source of information for the protestors. Lists of
arrested Iranian journalists. The
steady change of views of a NYT columnist from “we should engage with Iran” to “they’re a bunch of theocratic thugs”. Back when he was putting
a positive gloss on how to treat with the regime, he failed to distinguish between the Iranian Supreme Leader responding (Khamenei also quieted the crowd when it began its ritual “Death to America” chant)
or inciting “death to America” chants.