HEY DON - THIS YOUR DAD'S BIKE?
Sorry for the inside joke. Click and enjoy.
June 30, 2007
June 29, 2007
SOMETHING TELLS ME THEY'RE NOT GOING TO MAKE IT THIS EASY FOR US.
ALTAMONT REVISITED?
CAN'T SAY I HAVEN'T FELT THIS WAY MYSELF - ALBEIT WITH A SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT TARGET.
June 27, 2007
WELL, THAT'S ONE WAY TO DIRECT THE PRESS' ATTENTION AWAY FROM THE WHOLE MORMON ISSUE.
"Romney strapped a dog carrier — with the family dog Seamus, an Irish Setter, in it — to the roof of the family station wagon for a twelve hour drive from Boston to Ontario, which the family apparently completed, despite Seamus's rather visceral protest."
Romney's Cruel Canine Vacation - TIME
June 25, 2007
WE'RE ALL GETTING MORE ECOLOGICALLY SAVVY - THEN AGAIN, WE'RE STILL FINDING THE IDEA OF EATING GOLD TO BE WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION.
"At Asia's largest pharmaceutical industry exhibition, Japan's Tsukioka Co. Ltd. showed off gold that should spice up dull cups of Joe. The company is best known for making those eatable breath mint-type film, but is trying to build up the gold eating business."
Cool Hunting: Floating Sparkly Gold for Coffee
June 21, 2007
HEY SEATTLE - "WE'RE NUMBER ONE," "WE'RE NUMBER ONE!"
I'M JUST GOING TO START PUTTING THIS CLIP IN EVERY NEW BLOG ENTRY ABOUT "WHAT THE BUSH ADMINSTRATION PULLED TODAY."
YES, BUT HOW DID THE PRO-RAPE SEGMENT REACT?
Seinfeld Bombs With Anti-Rape Crowd
WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH RAPE? Seinfeld
Promoting his new animated film, Bee Movie, in the New York Daily News today, the usually family-friendly comic quipped, "Bees have the only perfect society on earth ... They have no crime, they have no drugs, they have no rape. A little rape, but it's not that bad."
Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online
BALLS OF STEEL.
"The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice President Cheney exempted his office from the presidential order that establishes government-wide procedures for safeguarding classified national security information. The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive branch.”
YEAH, $500 SHOULD FIX THIS PROBLEM - SOUNDS ABOUT FAIR.
MAYBE IT WENT WHEREVER KARL ROVE'S EMAIL DID.
June 19, 2007
THIS JUST IN - I'M NEVER RIDING IN AN AIRBUS AIRPLANE.
HOW MUCH OF THE WORLD ISN'T ON THE METRIC SYSTEM?
TODAY'S EDITION OF "THE CAKE MIGHT NOT BE YOUR BIGGEST PROBLEM."
"For the budget-minded bride and groom, here's an idea: rent a fake wedding cake."
abc7.com: Budget Brides and Grooms Rent 'Fake' Wedding Cakes
THEY MIGHT BE REACHING...JUST A BIT.
“Are you going to convict Jack Bauer?” Judge Scalia challenged his fellow judges. “Say that criminal law is against him? ‘You have the right to a jury trial?’ Is any jury going to convict Jack Bauer? I don’t think so. So the question is really whether we believe in these absolutes. And ought we believe in these absolutes.”
The Case for Torture | Slog | The Stranger's Blog | The Stranger | Seattle's Only Newspaper
June 17, 2007
IN HONOR OF MR. BARKER'S LAST SHOW, WE ONCE AGAIN REVISIT THE GREATEST MOMENT IN THE SHOW'S HISTORY.
TODAY'S EDITION OF "WHY THEY HATE US" - A TV CHANNEL DEVOTED TO WATCHING OTHER PEOPLE PLAY VIDEOGAMES.
THIS IS GOING TO APPLY TO SCOOTER LIBBY TOO, RIGHT?
"The Bush administration is trying to roll back a Supreme Court decision by pushing legislation that would require prison time for nearly all criminals."
June 15, 2007
DUDE'S MAKING DENYING YOUR HISTORY A LIFESTYLE.
"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told a gathering of Hispanic journalists that immigrants should avoid Spanish-language media if they want to learn English quickly. "You've got to turn off the Spanish television set" and avoid Spanish-language television, books and newspapers, the Republican governor said Wednesday night at the annual convention of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists."
ABC News: Schwarzenegger: Turn Off Spanish TV
June 14, 2007
YEAH - WELL, DON'T GET ANY IDEAS.
“One of the frustrations is that there is more attention on Britney Spears getting out of a car without underwear than there is about who is going to be the next president,” he said."
CNN.com - CNN Political Ticker Huckabee: Too much attention on Britney and Paris �
By the way, alternate headline for this entry: "Kind of explains why he doesn't believe in evolution."
JUST IN CASE YOU'RE WONDERING - I'VE GOT A NEW "FAVORITE BBC NEWS HEADLINE."
SIMPLE BUT SOLID ANALOGY.
"Is it just me, or is there a strange similarity between all these social networking sites and say, areas of a city that get hot with all sorts of bars and nightclubs and then go cold in a matter of months? I mean, Friendster was huge, then it wasn't. LinkedIn got big, MySpace got big, and now Facebook seems to be getting big. Someday, Facebook will be cold, too. Just like neighborhoods or nightclubs."
A Random Social Networking Observation - AdPulp
WITH THE DOWNTURN IN HOUSING, NEW BUSINESSES CROP UP.
WEDDING RING COFFINS FOR THE RECENTLY DIVORCED.
June 12, 2007
US MAGAZINE WANTS ITS SCOOP.
"Paris Hilton was so terrified guards would snap a cell-phone picture of her on the toilet that she didn't eat or drink for three days, which left her facing a life-threatening collapse, a source told the Daily News. She also was not taking prescribed medication while in jail, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said."
News learns Paris didn't eat or drink out of fear guards would take pix
CRAP - I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY.
"A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting."
wcco.com - Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb'
June 11, 2007
BETWEEN THIS P.O.V. AND THE WHOLE EVOLUTION THING, BIG MIKE'S GOT QUITE THE COMMAND OF FACTS.
June 07, 2007
AND HERE YOU THOUGHT IT WAS JUST VISUALLY CONFUSING.
"A segment of animated footage promoting the 2012 Olympics has been removed from the organisers' website after fears it could trigger epileptic seizures."
BBC NEWS | England | London | Epilepsy fears over 2012 footage
June 06, 2007
NEWS FROM THE FRONTLINES ON THE 'WAR ON COMMONSENSE.'
YOU'VE GOT TO BE KIDDING....
"If Wilson had had sexual intercourse with the 15-year-old he would have fallen under Georgia's "Romeo and Juliet" exception. But under the law in 2003, oral sex between teens constituted aggravated child molestation and carried a mandatory sentence."
THE REAL HERESY ARCHIVES.
As those of you who are loyal readers already know, I recently lost all the entries on this blog to a software glitch. But they do exist - and should any of you wish to visit the "old" Heresy blog, please click...
here.
Happy memories.
OVERHEARD (JUST NOW) AT TED GLOBAL IN AFRICA.
"You know, ants have made a home in my hard drive."
THE ONION NAILS MY ATTITUDE TOWARDS SUMMER...PERFECTLY.
June 05, 2007
ANOTHER REFERENCE TO A GREAT SPEAKER WHO JUST FINISHED AT THE TED GLOBAL CONFERENCE.
INSERT YOUR OWN BUSINESS STRATEGY JOKE HERE.
Honda kills Accord Hybrid | Tech news blog - CNET News.com
No sooner does Toyota announce it will hybridize its entire car line than Honda pulls the plug on the Accord Hybrid. Only 25,000 have been sold in three years--Toyota sold that many Priuses last month.
BUT, YOU KNOW, THE SAME COULD BE SAID OF SYPHILIS.
Advertising Age - VW's Marketing Takes Another Hairpin Turn
The automaker's new campaign from Crispin Porter & Bogusky aims to communicate the emotional experience of being inside its cars with the tagline, "When you get into a Volkswagen, it gets into you."
I JUST SAT THROUGH A TED SPEECH THAT INVOVES ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT PROJECTS I'VE EVER HEARD OF.
I'm not even going to try to summarize. Click below, find out more, and get involved.
The Genographic Project - Human Migration, Population Genetics, Maps, DNA
tedglobal2007
tedglobal2007
HELLO AGAIN WORLD.
Sorry for the long absence. I'm still in Africa, but will be back again shortly. Expect a return to our regularly scheduled program shortly.
