Filed under: In the News, Weird | Tags: balloon boy, balloon boy video, heene music video
I tried to refrain from posting anything about Balloon Boy because that was just too obvious. BUT apparently the Heene boys made a music video called “Not Pussified” that jumped to about 500,000 views as of today. They kind of sound like the Beastie Boys meet the Moffats. How can someone let their kids do this, you ask? Why not let your kids do this?! Check it out after the jump.
Filed under: In the News, Music, Uncategorized | Tags: buckethats, Chris Gaines, comebacks, country stars with tight pants, garth brook announces comeback, Garth Brooks, git along little dogies
Garth Brooks, I mean Chris Gaines, I mean Tight Pants McTighterson announced his comeback out of retirement. Settle down, Aunt Winnefred’s gonna be okay.
Filed under: Drugs!, In the News, Politics, Uncategorized | Tags: cocaine, crack, crack cocaine, crack is whack, lay of that whiskey and let that cocaine be, richard durbin, senate bills
Majority Whip Richard J. Durbin finally caught onto all the crack jokes and introduced a bill that will once and for all settle the differences between crack and cocaine, the Washington Post reports:
Under current law, it takes 100 times as much powdered cocaine as crack to trigger the same mandatory minimum sentence…
…Durbin’s bill would also increase the quantity of crack cocaine required to trigger a mandatory prison term, as well as stiffen penalties for large-scale drug traffickers and violent criminals.
Essentially they’re loosening the reins on crack due to the number of people incarcerated for drugs and increasing punishment for coke dealers because Durbin got a whack ass bag last week.
Filed under: In the News, Politics, Weird | Tags: australia, black face, harry connick jr, hey hey it's saturday, racist australians
A reunion episode of popular Aussie variety show Hey Hey It’s Saturday featured an act dressed entirely in black face that called themselves “The Jackson Jive.” Bet they didn’t that one was going to piss anyone off.
Actually, no one was pissed off except for singer and guest judge on the show Harry Connick Jr., who gave The Jackson Jive a ‘0′ and told them that if they “turned up lookin’ like that in the United States… it’d be like Hey Hey There’s No More Show.”
Host Daryl Somers was completely oblivious, asking Connick if he could redeem them a little, “just for turning up, maybe a two or a three?” So was the stupid lady sitting next to him, who gave the act a ‘7,’ calling them “cute” with “great choreography.”
The Sydney-based hacks who called themselves a “Tribute to Michael Jackson” were actually a group of medical professionals (including a therapist, I think!). More racist Australian television and Daryl Somer’s half-assed apology to Connick after the jump.
Filed under: In the News, Recession, Weird | Tags: begging, homeless, laid off, lay offs, Recession, us economy
Image courtesy of daylife.com
A former executive in New York has the bright idea of passing out his resumes while wearing a sandwich board that says “Almost Homeless: Looking for employment. Very experienced operations and administration manager.”
Paul Nawrocki, who was laid off in February, worked in the toy industry. His wife is disabled, his daughter’s tuition is at stake and he says he’s running out of money.
Nawrocki is one of thousands losing their salaries, as companies across the nations make cuts to afford costs. If a former executive with decades of experience can’t find a job selling his pride on the streets, it doesn’t leave much hope for the soon-to-be-college-graduate typing out blog posts with a mediocre grade-point average and thousands of dollars in student loans. Where’s that call girl who got that senator in trouble? Didn’t she make almost a million dollars a year? Does she have a business card?
Check out the CNN article of this sad man here.
Filed under: In the News, Sports | Tags: 33 year sentence, football players, oj simpson
33 years? I’d be crying too.
Filed under: In the News, Politics, Recession | Tags: cause, crisis, economic, economy, effect, of, on, unemployment, us, us economic crisis, us economy
“It’s unbelievable. We’re well on our way to the worst recession of the postwar period.“–Nariman Behravesh, chief economist at IHS Global Insight in Lexington, Massachusetts. Bloomberg.
“We have recorded the largest decline in consumer confidence in our history.“–Richard T. Curtin, director of the Reuters/University of Michigan Survey of Consumers, which started its polling in the 1950s. New York Times.
“You can’t get much uglier than this. The economy has just collapsed, and has gone into a free fall” –Richard Yamarone, Argus Research in New York. BBC News.
“There are no quick or easy fixes to this crisis, which has been many years in the making, and it’s likely to get worse before it gets better.“–President-elect Barack Obama.
“Do you know the difference between a recession and a depression?
A recession is when your neighbor loses his job, and a depression is when you lose yours.”–Someone’s elderly neighbor. Radio Free Europe.
“These numbers are shocking.” –Economist Joel Naroff, president of Naroff Economics Advisors. CBS News.
“US jobless figures confirm economic meltdown.“–United Press International headline.
Filed under: In the News, Weird | Tags: cow manure, cow methane capture, emissions, energy, environmental, farms, fart, farts, flatulence, green, meat, meat consumption, methane, methane capture, power
According to this story in the New York Times, a farm in the Netherlands is responding to the rise in meat consumption by cooking animal poop and harnessing the methane to produce electricity.
This week countries from all over the world will gather in Poland to discuss the problems of methane emissions from the trillions of animals in meat and dairy farms, which United Nations estimates say contribute to 18 percent of emissions raising global temperatures. Overrated Musician Dave Matthews reports:
More vegetarians around the world are realizing their silly ways, as shown in the rising meat consumption of over 30 percent. And as this percentage rises, so do emissions from said farms and methane is 22 times more potent than regular carbon dioxide. While “methane capture” aka “fart-tricity” sounds like a wholesome, self-sustainable alternative to farms, this is America and convenience and saving money prevails all rational decisions.
With the moral, anti-capitalist mumbo-jumbo aside, power through flatulence? I am in full support. Do you know what this means? Perhaps this could replace the remote control–just let ‘er rip to turn on your favorite program. Power outage? Never fear! Just use the generator in your ass!
To check out more benefits of fart-tricity, check out this article from the International Herald Tribune.
Filed under: In the News, Politics | Tags: cbs, cbs news, good decisions, katie couric, katie couric cbs, presidential debate, terrible news anchors
According to an article in the New York Observer, MSNBC anchor Keith Olbermann remarked during the network’s Super Tuesday coverage that “it sometimes seemed like everyone in the business had already anchored a debate.”
Everyone except for Katie Couric. According to experts, CBS News’s shrinking budget–$15 million of which goes to her salary–can’t handle the overwhelming costs of hosting a debate for their biggest star. CBS President Sean McManus denies that their decision was based on financial reasons, but the Observer reports:
In the past, CBS has not been reluctant to shell out money to maximize on the Katie Couric phenomenon.
“You think about how much they wasted early on in billboards and other crap, wouldn’t it be smarter to invest in substance now?” said one source, with knowledge of CBS’s aborted debate plans. “Either the network is fundamentally dedicated to spending the money, or they’re not. If you’re really dedicated to bumping your news to another level, you host a debate. But there’s either no interest or no follow-through.”
Thank goodness. A Presidential Debate with Katie Couric would be like a televised game of 20 Questions. I could see it now: “What do you think of gay people? Hot or not?”
Check out Felix Gillette’s article in the New York Observer.
