Statistics, 2002-2008 Domestic US Deaths by Firearm Homicide: over 80,000 Domestic US Deaths by Terrorism: 0 While people enjoy citing the fact that the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed under the US Constitution (conveniently dropping…
Category: Politics (n.): a strife of interests masquerading
Bubbles
We could live beside the ocean leave them far behind swim out past the breakers watch the world die. -Everclear, “Santa Monica” Russ and I went down (up? over? out? – I have no sense of direction in LA) to…
Help Promote Making Fun of AIG!
This is the old straight-up appeal to the masses – if you’re involved in the Digg thing (or can easily sign up), please help us get our new AIG March Madness commercial (Youtube, previously posted about): Digg It! Also, the…
AIG Commercials: Resurrected and Spoofed
Russ and I have spent the better part of the last 24 hours at it again. We unearthed secret archived videos from the good old days of AIG and are sharing them with the world. Better yet, we are spoofing…
The Stock Market Hates You
It’s becoming a well-documented fact that the US stock market these days is rallying on bad news and crashing on good news. But nowhere is this more evident than on days when unemployment figures are announced. Yesterday, the market rallied…
Public Service Announcement: Please Stop Killing Your Children Over Your Employment Situation
This one is only the latest in what is becoming just about the fastest growing trend of the last 7 months. People lose their jobs, go home, and slaughter their family. Sometimes they spend a couple frustrating weeks or even…
Most Babies Chronically Depressed, New Study Warns
Groundbreaking research out of the University of Iowa today has confirmed what many have long suspected: most babies are clinically depressed. A shocking 83% of babies have been found to have the hallmark symptoms of a newly identified strain of…
2008
Somewhere along the way, Time Magazine lost its way. Maybe it was the influence of AOL, long nicknamed “A-O-Hell” by my generation, which itself is somewhere between the nickname of “Generation Y” and “The Millennial Generation”. I’ll take either one,…
Sign Post Revisited
People are looking for places to put their anger these days. I don’t know who is responsible for the above depicted action on our front lawn any more than I know who is responsible for skyrocketing the stock market toward…
Words of the Prophets
Transcript of a conversation between a Homeless Guy (HG) and myself (SC) on a sidewalk in Berkeley this morning, between 24-Hour Fitness and the Downtown Berkeley BART station entrance at Shattuck & Addison. Given that I was rushing to BART…