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Bailout? Who needs bail?

October 3, 2008 – 2:13 pm

Posted 8-15-08. Hmmmmmmm. What does Married to the Sea know that Jim Cramer doesn’t?

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Bailout, Culture, Emergency, Humour, Justice, U.S., capitalism, comics, economics, government, humor | Comments (8)

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

Britain pwns Aussie vs Yank War

September 26, 2008 – 7:15 am
By raincoaster | Also posted in Culture, Etiquette, Hoaxes, Humour, 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 | Also posted in Culture, Election, Humour, Irony, 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 | Also posted in Bailout, Culture, Emergency, Humour, Justice, U.S., capitalism, economics, government, humor, mashups, news, real estate | Comments (11)

Faceless!

September 15, 2008 – 7:53 am

Faceless on Facebook, faceless on Twitter, faceless on WordPress, on Gravatar, on OpenID (which, it must be said, I’ve never gotten to work anyway) in fact, faceless anywhere is a powerful statement, especially in an increasingly-overpopulated world where everyone wears their MySpace pruneface at all times, lest they be caught on CCTV looking humdrum.
Just ask [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Art, Blogging, Canada, Censorship, Culture, Facebook, Twitter, government, meme, news, social media | Comments (5)

The only video of the American Presidential race you’ll ever need to see

September 14, 2008 – 1:09 am

Truman Capote, who knew a thing or two about the subject, once said of Marilyn Monroe that those who choose to become blonde are blonder than those who are simply born that way. Watch this video of ex-Hebridean and new American Craig Ferguson and ask if a similar principle does not apply to those who [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Celebrity, Culture, Election, Entertainment, Humour, Justice, Manifestos, U.S., government, humor, news, television | Comments (7)

LA ICE: shovelling the snowbacks back

August 29, 2008 – 9:01 am

This is remarkable video of one of LA’s most secretive police units, ICE: Illegal Canadian Enforcement. They sweep the streets clean of Canuckistani invaders, tipped off by nothing more than a glimpse of an NHL jersey, a whiff of maple syrup, or just a whistled bar of “Snowbird.”
Fear them.

Stolen from EvilBeet

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Canada, Crime, Culture, Entertainment, Humour, Irony, Police, U.S., Weird, YouTube, conspiracy, government, humor, marketing, sad | Comments (12)

Olympic Scandal: Faux BoJo, or No?

August 25, 2008 – 1:16 pm

Another Olympic scandal tops the headlines this morning as it is revealed that, in a substitution reminiscent of the opening ceremony’s switched songstresses and faux fireworks, London Mayor Boris Johnson did not, in fact, attend the closing ceremony at all, but instead was replaced by a sophisticated computer-generated animation.

This shocking swap was insisted upon by [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Boris Johnson, Censorship, Culture, George Orwell, Hoaxes, Humour, London, Olympics, Weird, conspiracy, government, humor, news, sad | Comments (13)

Amusement Parks of the Damned

August 10, 2008 – 2:59 am

Well, it IS in Coney Island.

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Culture, Hoaxes, Humour, Justice, U.S., War, Weird, government, humor, sad, tasteless | Comments (1)