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Monthly Archives: September 2008

Empire, or Humanity? What the Classroom Didn’t Teach Me About the American Empire, by Howard Zinn

September 30, 2008 – 9:08 pm

Passed along from NagOnTheLake by Metro, here is a thoughtful autobiographical essay by Howard Zinn, a former soldier and current thought leader (what we used to call philosopher, before we decided that old words were old-fashioned).

By raincoaster | Posted in Afghanistan, Culture, Historical, Iran, Iraq, Justice, Osama bin Laden, Politics, U.S., War, YouTube, animation, economics, government, news, philosophy, terrorism | Comments (6)

quiz: the sock personality test

September 30, 2008 – 3:34 am

What Your Socks Say About You

You Are:
- Quite delightful
- Very colorful
- Known as marvelous
- A zany person

The Socks Personality Test
Yes. Yes, I am.

By raincoaster | Posted in Allegory, Quizzes and tests, fashion, meme | Comments (14)

Operation Global Media Domination: the Banksy Situation

September 27, 2008 – 10:13 pm

For as long as I can remember (which, at my age, admittedly isn’t very long, perhaps twenty minutes at a time and then I need to take my rememberer out and let it cool down for awhile) on this blog the #1 post in terms of hits, year after year, has been Britney Spears Sex [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Art, Banksy, Blogging, Britney Spears, Celebrity, Culture, Fans, Operation Global Media Domination, Wordpress, geek, meme, raincoaster, statistics | Comments (27)

Britain pwns Aussie vs Yank War

September 26, 2008 – 7:15 am
By raincoaster | Posted in Culture, Etiquette, Hoaxes, Humour, Politics, Weird, bigotry, humor | Comments (3)

quiz: what are YOU giving up to focus on the economy?

September 26, 2008 – 3:02 am

These are trying times, my friends. Even seasoned heros are finding themselves facing unimagined and unimaginable terrors as investment bankers endure periods of joblessness lasting up to three or even four days (psyche! everybody with a bonus of over $5k keeps their jobs) and the American economy craters.
In times like these, sacrifices must be made! [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Culture, Election, Humour, Irony, Politics, Quizzes and tests, U.S., Weird, anarchy, capitalism, economics, government, humor, meme, news, sad | Comments (17)

Bush’s Bailout Plan

September 25, 2008 – 7:57 pm

The Dark Bailout!

Here’s a brilliant idea: since the US government just announced they’ll use $700,000,000,000 yes, seven hundred BILLION dollars, to buy junk assets, this site, BuyMyShitPile has decided to let the people market their crap directly to the government, no middle man required! As anyone who has seen the interior [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Bailout, Culture, Emergency, Humour, Justice, Politics, U.S., capitalism, economics, government, humor, mashups, news, real estate | Comments (11)

I shall call him…

September 25, 2008 – 6:48 am
By raincoaster | Posted in Humour, fish, humor, lol | Comments (3)

Sad Clowns

September 25, 2008 – 3:32 am

I’m on cold medicine, stoned to the gills, so bear with me here.b Just filli in the blanks like a Choose Your Own Sad Scary Nekkid Clown ADFdventure.
black velvet sad/scary clown gallery
Clowns get naked for charity calendar
Something, John Wayne CGacy, something Emmet Kelly, something Jodie Foster no that’s too far I take the Jodie back, [...]

By raincoaster | Posted in Culture, Entertainment, Etiquette, Humour, Porn, Weird, fetish, horror, humor, sad | Comments (1)

so I did FaceMyManga

September 24, 2008 – 6:29 am

Yes, I Faced My Manga, just like everyone else on Earth, and I shall never be the same.
BEHOLD!

By raincoaster | Posted in Cthulhu, Culture, Facebook, Humour, Twitter, animation, geek, horror, humor, mashups, social media | Comments (9)

oh noes!

September 22, 2008 – 7:47 pm

Still on vacation, and feel this way myself. Dear god, when are they going to adapt the insulin pump for caffeine????

By raincoaster | Posted in Culture | Comments (13)