I don't watch the show, as I generally don't watch reality TV. But the Facebook and the news feeds and the whatnot are all abuzz about an interview that Phil Robertson gave with GQ magazine. In this interview, he is alleged to have made homophobic and racist statements ( Read more... )

You know, this whole Miley Cyrus thing from the MTV awards has been all over the news. CNN covered it. It was also on the NBC Nightly News.

I decided to check it out on YouTube.

Man, that was just awful.


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The gift of prophecy! I only... uh... sort of have it.

I made a prediction some days ago, and it actually gives me hope that the exact image macro I predicted did not appear. But, the internet - with its inhibition-lowering abilities - never disappoints when you want to find material with which to publicly shame idiots.


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I was going to assemble a list of ridiculous (and in some cases somewhat racist) conspiracy theories being peddled seriously by internet idiots and right-wing pundits. Salon.com did it for me.

Biggest Myths From the Boston Marathon Bombing
The highlights:

• "Truther" Alex Jones says it was an inside job. Of course ( Read more... )

Two quick pictures to show:

December 21st of last year was the Mayan non-apocalypse. I commemorated the occasion with a picture on my marker board.


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Mississippi just barely ratified the 13th Amendment two weeks ago. For those of you who don't remember your government classes in high school, that's the one that abolished slavery. So that means that Mississippi is a mere century and a half behind the times.

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To be fair, though, a clerical error prevented them from successfully doing so the first ( Read more... )

Turns out all that rhetoric by the NRA about how existing gun laws should be enforced is pretty ironic, since they systematically have made existing gun laws more and more difficult to enforce. Jon Stewart cites sources, and mixes it with a heaping helping of comedic timing.

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This was brought to my attention by kane_magus. It's from Cracked, so it has some profanity and some off-color humor, but I think it pretty much mirrors what my thinking has been on this matter for many years.

The article: "The Truth About Guns and Video Games"The long and short of it is this: Yes, video games are a part of our culture of violence. Yes, ( Read more... )

In the wake of the election, stuff is happening amongst TV talking heads. However, we must first defines some vocabulary terms.

Pro wrestling is fake. (Everybody knows this, right? I'm not blowing any minds here, am I?) The performance the wrestlers put on - staying in character and never doing anything on stage to ruin the illusion - is called ( Read more... )

So, Fox News was covering election night, as all news networks were, cable or broadcast, and they had a guy by the name of Dick Morris as their guy making the Vegas book on who would win the election. A few weeks prior, he had boldly declared that every poll conducted by not-Fox-News was biased and skewed, and that the only accurate polls, " ( Read more... )