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March 19, 2004

The Manchurian Candidate

Again, prolly not as important as a Thanksgiving prop turkey, but here’s the link anyway. Good thing for Kerry Whitney Houston entered drug rehab this week, otherwise the mainstream media would be all over this story… [Update:“Kerry Retreats from his Denial on Vietnam Meet.” Via Quick]

“Cos fuck is the worst word that you can say…”

“For broadcasters seeking more guidance on what is indecent, federal regulators have some warning: Don’t use [fuck]. “The Federal Communications Commission on Thursday overruled its staff and declared that an expletive uttered by rock star Bono on NBC last year was both indecent and profane. The agency made it clear that virtually any use of [fuck] was inappropriate for over-the-air radio and television. “[Fuck] is one of the most vulgar,

A Performative.

In a surprising turn of events, disgraced former USA Today reporter Jack Kelley has been named interim President of Haiti, sources close to Kelley report. “It’s true. They named me interim President,” Kelley told a small gathering of reporters at a hastily arranged press conference near the US-Mexico border early Friday. “Which is way cool, because as I understand it, the job comes with, like, a private jet and a

Race to the Top

Jeff Jacoby offers a scathing deconstruction of our broken affirmative action system, using the finalist selections for the American Advertising Federation’s annual “Most Promising Minority Students Program” as his starting point: In the world that affirmative action has made, there are rich rewards to be reaped from being designated a “top minority.” The students featured in the ad were flown to New York for a long weekend, flattered at a

Did anyone not see this coming…?

Air Dork. My, how I long for those days when teenage boys played contact sports and whipped their skippies to fantasy humans. Like, say, Princess Leia. Or Jaime Sommers.