Category Archives: Isn’t It Ironic?

How NOT to win friends and influence people

I don’t know how much attention His Barackness pays to opinion polls, surveys and the like…but if I were in his shoes, I’d realize that this is very much an election year, and this is very much an election issue: … Continue reading

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Quotable: John Perkins on the cost of war

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Miss Travel gets a miss, all right

Leave it to the Daily Mail to test-drive a sleazy sounding website…and find out that it does, indeed, have that general whiff of hinkitude about it. Joanne Hegarty signed up for “Miss Travel”, a sugar-daddy website for pretty but broke … Continue reading

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Farewell, Mr. Trololo…

His name was Eduard Khil, and his vocalization brought him international fame long after this broadcast was over and done with. And today, there’s some sad news regarding the Russian baritone the Internets have dubbed the Trololo Man: Little-known Russian … Continue reading

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Memo to the media: it’s PSYCHOPATH, not “porn star”!

Luca Rocco Magnotta, né Eric Clinton Newman, auditions (unsuccessfully) for a reality show called Cover Guy, in which gay models compete for an underwear-modelling gig. As you can see, he’s not that impressive a physical specimen; very vacuous, very obviously … Continue reading

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Darwin Award goes to…

…the snake-handlin’ preacher-man from the hollers of West Virginia, who didn’t realize that lightning does strike twice…and so do timber rattlers: A “serpent-handling” West Virginia pastor died after his rattlesnake bit him during a church ritual, just as the man … Continue reading

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“Sugarbabe” life goes sour: a cheat is not so sweet, after all

Okay, I’m going to try veerrrry hard and restrain my Schadenfreude here while I share some very sad news with you: Holly Hill believed so strongly that humans are not built to be faithful that she appeared on television and … Continue reading

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Two Ecuadorable items

First up, some excellent video from this past week, when Julian Assange interviewed the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, for his RT/Wikileaks talk show: And then, germane to the subjects touched on in the Assange interview, this item from Contrainjerencia: … Continue reading

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Clip ‘n’ Save: A portable Mitt Romney debunker

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Fascism in Québec: What the major media won’t tell you

Fortunately, ordinary citizens are stepping up to do what our lovely lamestream media can’t. Namely, report what is going on with some sense of honesty, and zero crapaganda: Incidentally, this fascism is failing. BADLY.

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