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Monthly Archives: April 2006

Obituary: John Kenneth Galbraith

April 30, 2006 – 12:13 pm

From the AP by way of the Boston Examiner:
John Kenneth Galbraith, the Harvard professor who won worldwide renown as a liberal economist, backstage politician and witty chronicler of affluent society, died Saturday night, his son said. He was 97. Galbraith died of natural causes at Mount Auburn Hospital, where he was admitted nearly two weeks ago, [...]

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Colbert at the White House Correspondent’s Dinner

April 30, 2006 – 9:14 am

 
UPDATE: YouTube was forced by CSpan to take down the video, so the vid here does not work. Sorry. CSpan then posted it at GoogleVideo. It is currently "not available" there. Cryptocracy theorists, you may commence emailing…
Update Updated:
Here it is. Sorry, can't upload. Damn Googlevideo!!! But you can click and watch it anyway.
And now for [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Blogging, Censorship, Christianity, Culture, Entertainment, Humour, Politics, War | Comments (2)

Bill Clinton: The Final Days

April 30, 2006 – 8:40 am

Not exactly Nixonian, and all the better for that.
PS I knew it would be Helen Thomas at that press conference! Do I get wonk points? How many do you need for a charity shag from George Stephanopoulos?

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Hollywood: A Primer

April 30, 2006 – 8:11 am

Now this book is a fun read, particularly if you’re the least bit vicarious, and some of us have been known to vicariate, although perhaps only late at night, after a few drinks.
Because god knows, you’d never live through it.
High Concept, a biography of Don Simpson and an examination of the fatal cost of Hollywood [...]

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Operation Global Media Domination: Apology

April 30, 2006 – 6:23 am

I'm sorry, people. Today was obviously Hard on the Eyes Day on the ol' raincoaster blog.
I suppose I could go back and edit it, but let us leave that eye-searing image for the ages. When I first grabbed it, I thought it wouldn't be so bad, honest. But it puts even that static-filled, eye-ripping Guardian [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Art, Blogging, Operation Global Media Domination | Comments (0)

Brittney Kicks Ass!

April 30, 2006 – 6:07 am

I love stories like these.
Seems some perv in his thirties tried to grab 14-year-old Brittney Richardson, and she took her brown belt in karate and she whupped his sad, sorry ass.
Go Xena!
I mean Brittney!
"I turned and I hit him," she says.  "I just knocked this guy out."
She immediately ran away, and called police.
Her instructors couldn't [...]

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Photo o’ the Day: A-Mazing!

April 30, 2006 – 5:47 am

Via the always-reliable Fark. I tell ya, it's almost enough to make you take up gardening.
Although my kitchen sink looks kinda like this some days. Maybe I should take similar aerial photos? I had a riding teacher who used to show horses…1/60th scale. Pat Gottlieb owned scale model dressage!

By raincoaster | Posted in Art, Culture, Science | Comments (0)

Streaming Eagle Cam 2.0: Baby Eagles in Colorado

April 30, 2006 – 2:29 am

Eaglet Alert! More bloody birds! But at least this camera's not overloaded like the one in BC. Three chicks in Fort St. Vrain in Platteville, Colorado. BC ones due any day now; there's some controversy over whether or not markings on the eggs are the eaglets trying to get out.
OT: Who the hell is St. Vrain?
Gawd, I [...]

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Help Wanted: FBI

April 30, 2006 – 12:10 am

It's only fair I put this FBI Joblisting up, seeing as how I put up the SIS one a few posts back. Not that this is an ad for Special Agents. Regular Old Boring Agents are apparently not needed at the present time.
FBI Special Agents must have a 4-year college degree, be a United States citizen, be available [...]

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Welcome to the Blogroll: Manolo’s Shoeblog (of Evil)

April 29, 2006 – 9:34 am

There's just nothing I can add to this that would make it better. It is perfection. And a warning. Beware the Lagerfeld!
What did the world do before fashion journalism was this funny?
The World Gone Mad
Manolo says, the Manolo asks you, perhaps rhetorically, has the entire world gone mad for evil? Does no one but the [...]

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Brazilliant Gizoogling: a clash of cultures

April 29, 2006 – 7:12 am

From The Times. Of course, The Times isn't exactly the paper of record for most of the people who care the most about this story, so for the benefit of Snoop fans everywhere (Snooptologists?), we have taken the liberty of running the story through Gizoogle. Behold:

Rap stizzar held gangsta po-po is hizzy in airport fiznight
By [...]

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Australia, guardian of culture, land of language. Too right it is!

April 29, 2006 – 3:32 am

Or not, as the case may be. The case:
Australia's conservative government has said it is considering testing immigrants' English skills and their understanding of Australian cultural values before allowing them to become citizens…
Robb cited individual freedom and commitment to the rule of law, gender equality, tolerance and the ethos of a "fair go" for all [...]

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C is for Cookie

April 29, 2006 – 1:13 am

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Books, Censorship, Crime, Culture, Entertainment, Family, Humour, Literary, Politics, War, Weird | Comments (1)

Job Vacancy: MI6

April 28, 2006 – 12:44 pm

Spy services the world over are becoming desperate. The CIA has advertised, insisting, with steel-spined obstinacy, that you not have a history of hard drug use within the last five years.
Now the UK joins the “c’mon peeps, help us out here” stakes with their advertisement for spies. It really has been too long between Bond [...]

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Mary McCarthy: The Mission to Warn: Disaster Looms

April 28, 2006 – 11:35 am

From Cryptome:
26 April 2006. Mary O. McCarthy was recently fired by the CIA for allegedly talking to reporters and releasing classified information, which she has denied.
See also: Mary McCarthy, "The National Warning System: Striving for an Elusive Goal," Defense Intelligence Journal 3-1 (1994), 5-19. http://cryptome.org/mccarthy-nws.htm
Source: Hardcopy of Defense Intelligence Journal.
Defense Intelligence Journal; 7-2 (1998), 17-31
THE [...]

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Linkie of the Day: Just Fucking Google It!

April 28, 2006 – 11:05 am

And just today I was having an interesting conversation with a 13-year-old friend about how the names of certain companies are becoming bywords and catchphrases. McGyver, Google, Kleenex, Kitty Litter. The list goes on. I told her about the article Spy ran years ago, where they used the words "Kitty litter" without the trademark and [...]

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Head’s Up!

April 28, 2006 – 10:26 am

'I'm offering $10G for my sister's head'

A Canadian family struggling with a bizarre mystery has finally broken down and offered a reward. They'll give $10,000 for any information that leads to the return of their sister's head.
Sploid has the scoop. Somewhere in Montreal is a pathetic, self-abusing goth vandal using the head of an innocent woman [...]

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King of Pizzas…and bad jokes

April 28, 2006 – 10:03 am

Asked about the items, Bethel explained that when he finished delivering Domino's pizzas, "he transports deceased bodies in the same vehicle for a funeral home."
Aaaaaaaaaaaalrighty then. Thanks to the Smoking Gun for that story, and I am wondering what happens if he doesn't deliver the corpse within twenty minutes. Do you get the next stiffie [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Canada, Crime, Culture, Vancouver, Weird | Comments (0)

Kilt Porn

April 28, 2006 – 8:52 am

What can I say? I'm pimpin' the hits; lord knows I'm not proud.

By raincoaster | Posted in Blogging, Culture, Sex | Comments (0)

Tips on Tips

April 28, 2006 – 7:26 am

 

And then things took a turn for the worse when a Ben & Jerry's employee made the horrible mistake of panhandling for tips during this sacred day of frugality…
While we all thought his loud beggary was both annoying and tacky, a certain Mad Black Woman would have none of it, and thus began serving up [...]

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