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jlynch | January 12, 2009For the second year running, you - yes, YOU, laddie! - have made the BEAST 50 Most Loathsome People in America. A slip from last year’s #9 slot, but an appearance none the less:
43. You
Charges: You think it’s your patriotic duty to spend money you don’t have on crap you don’t need. You think Hillary lost because of sexism, when it’s actually because she’s just a bad liar. You think Iraq is better off now than before we invaded, and don’t understand why they’re so ungrateful. You think Tim Russert was a great journalist. You’re hopping mad about an auto industry bailout that cost a squirt of…
pharyngula | January 11, 2009Ann Coulter has been pestering me a lot, lately. Half the right-wing email I get seems to consist of that thick-skulled harpy howling insanely about Al Franken — she seems genuinely staggered by the possibility that us left-wing moonbats actually fought to get him elected.
I'm a bit dismayed to learn that she is Roy Zimmerman's girlfriend.
amillikan | January 9, 2009Though it seems like I've been with Seed for an eternity, I've actually only been here for three months. I'm pretty excited to be joining some of the ScienceBloggers at ScienceOnline09, but must admit I am a tad nervous about giving a presentation to a whole room of them. That's why I was especially drawn to this recent post by Dr. Isis in which she complains about an awful presentation she was forced to sit through. The antics on the comment thread are quite amusing, per usual. But specifically I was delighted to stumble across this jem, a comment thread on Sciencewoman's August post…
oracknows | January 8, 2009As much of a completely disgusting sleazebag as I think he is, at some level I grudgingly have to admire Larry Flynt. He never misses an opportunity for self-promotion and annoying the hell out of politicians, and he's back now, promoting himself and annoying the hell out of politicians.
This time, he's asking for a $5 billion bailout for the porn industry:
Another major American industry is asking for assistance as the global financial crisis continues: Hustler publisher Larry Flynt and Girls Gone Wild CEO Joe Francis said Wednesday they will request that Congress allocate $5 billion for a…
pharyngula | January 7, 2009One of my students said I had to show you this, because it's exactly like one of my lectures.
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pharyngula | January 7, 2009
There are also reasons D, E, F…etc., that I'm sure any sufficiently apologetic Christian will trot out for us, but they're all of ever-increasing absurdity. Most seem to subscribe to a less comical version of A, blaming his reluctance to manifest on a Divine Snit over the Fall.
Personally, I favor answer answer Ω: there never was any god to blame. Simple, clear, reasonable, and it fits all the facts.
grrlscientist | January 6, 2009tags: Uncle Jay, humor, satire, parody, streaming video
It's been a whole year since Uncle Jay has SUNG an entire episode, and here's the reminder why! It's the year-end review of the news, and maybe it'll seem a little better with music. [3:21]
clock | January 6, 2009Apple Introduces Revolutionary New Laptop With No Keyboard
Remember that every satire has to contain a grain of truth....
mikethemadbiologist | January 1, 2009A loyal reader forwarded to me a link of an imaginary July 4, 2009 edition of The New York Times. My favorite was the fake op-ed (not) by columnist Thomas Friedman:
The sudden outbreak of peace in Iraq has made me realize, among other things, one incontestable fact: I have no business holding a pen, at least with intent to write.
I know, you're thinking I'm going too far. I haven't always been wrong about everything. I recently made some sense on global warming and what we needed to do about it, for instance.
But to have been so completely and fundamentally wrong about so huge a disaster as…
evolvingthoughts | December 31, 2008Congratulations to Sir Terence Pratchett, or SurPterry as we shall undoubtedly come to call him (although I'm tempted to doubt it as he is the last bloke I think would ever be lost for words). But overlooked in the reports is this guy, who gets an OBE:
He's John Martyn, BTW.
terrasig | December 31, 2008I just sent out an e-mail to a bunch of friends asking what they were doing this New Year's Eve.
We'll be at home in the City of Medicine drinking a bottle of 1997 Grongnet "Special Club" Champagne. Then I'll try to do a 8K trail run being held tomorrow at Duke Forest. Feel free to join me - I'll be the 151-year-old dead guy wearing these shoes.
But in Brasstown, NC, (right at the NC-TN-GA tri-state border) they will be dropping the opossum - yes, the famed New Year's Possum Drop. It's a non-alcoholic family event that begins with a blessing and singing of church songs followed by the…
grrlscientist | December 31, 2008tags: politics, the year in review, JibJab, humor, streaming video
This amusing little video quickly summarizes 2008 -- a rather sad and scary year, if you ask me [2:13]
grrlscientist | December 30, 2008tags: farewell GW, John Sherffius, politics, humor, comedy
Image: John Sherffius, 28 December 2008 [larger view].
Read the fine print, if you can (and you really aren't expected to be able to read it), then tell me what you think of the current resident of the White House.
grrlscientist | December 30, 2008tags: robin williams, humor, comedy, satire, streaming video
The great Robin Williams at his best taking the **** out of Bush and a few others in politics -- this is a wonderful reminder of how talented Robin Williams is [9:21]
amillikan | December 29, 2008I came across this video floating in the ScienceBlogs back channels and decided it is way too cool to not post. Try watching this without feeling some kind of deep-seated nationalistic impulse stir within you. I never was much of a sporto, but I think this must be what frat boys feel when they watch football.
I won't say which team I was rooting for, but did you see the way that Mac ran away in fear and had to go get it's friends? Herein lies the Mac user bond that stems from a brand allegiance I will never understand. It's a good thing the video ended with ambiguity, before the Windows Vista…
oracknows | December 26, 2008...more not-so-Respectful Insolence, courtesy not of Orac this time but of other skeptical physician-bloggers!
Enjoy:
Smackdown, please (yes, Egnor, I'm talking to you) (by blog bud PalMD)
Defending science-based medicine (by skeptical neurologist Dr. Steve Novella, who's been known to spar a bit with Dr. Egnor himself over evolution and neuroscience)
Egnorance is Bliss (by Dr. Kimball Atwood IV)
grrlscientist | December 26, 2008tags: farewell from GW, satire, humor, will ferrell, streaming video
Will Ferrell does a splendid farewell imitation of our favorite lame-duck asshole, George Bush [1:31]