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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 (4)

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 of my apartment can [...]

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)

Justice Rocks; Do You?

August 8, 2008 – 3:35 am

The Pivot Legal Society-sponsored Justice Rocks festival is coming up, and they’re looking for volunteers. Hey, there’s swag in it for you, not to mention the chance to schmooze with the impecunious, yet famous, staff of the Pivot Legal Society and the future Mayor of Vancouver, semi-notorious rock god and blogger Dave Eby.
Here’s the call [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Culture, Downtown Eastside, Education, Fearless City, Gonzo, Justice, Parties, Public Service Announcement, Vancouver, media, music, news | Comments (2)

China Gets Real(ism)

July 24, 2008 – 1:15 am

China Gets Real

stolen from Valleywag where, surprisingly, it was not posted by Comrade Jackson

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Art, China, Culture, Humour, Work, economics, government, humor, news, philosophy | Comments (1)

Psyche!

July 15, 2008 – 10:47 am

From the front page of the Guardian, italics mine:

State funeral planned for Lady Thatcher

Michael White
The Guardian,
Monday July 14, 2008

Lady Thatcher is expected to be granted the rare honour of a state funeral when she dies.
Aw, man! I should always read past the jump before making plans. Now what am I gonna do with [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Celebrity, Culture, Humour, humor, sad | Comments (29)

welcum too Canada eh

July 15, 2008 – 3:50 am

By raincoaster | Also posted in Canada, Culture, Wildlife, animals, cats, lol, lolcats | Comments (3)

New Ingrid Betancourt video!

July 12, 2008 – 9:02 am

This newly-released Ingrid Betancourt footage is truly remarkable. In her own words, she explains what it was like to be a prisoner of FARC for all those years, chained in one place, able to make friends only with the vermin who scuttled through her lonely cell, and gives her thoughts on freedom and Hugo Chavez. [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Culture, Hoaxes, Humour, Ingrid Betancourt, Weird, YouTube, humor, meme, news, tasteless, terrorism | Comments (8)

Happy 4th of July! Jesse Helms is Dead!

July 4, 2008 – 11:56 pm

Yay! Something everyone everywhere can celebrate today. America is free! Free of one of the most malevolent and powerful doctrinaire bigots it’s seen since Emancipation.
Let’s all sing along with Klaus Nomi, whom Helms would have hated on general principles, even though he’s not black. Ding Dong, the Witch is Dead!

There are some great comments over [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Celebrity, Culture, Jesse Helms, U.S., bigotry, death, government, news, obituaries | Comments (15)

This and That: Avatars of Feminine Power

June 27, 2008 – 11:17 pm

First up, possibly my favorite painting in the entire world, Rembrandt’s Pallas Athena. I’m well aware that many people think it may not be by Rembrandt himself, but like, whatthefuckever, the painting stands on its own two feet, or would if it had feet instead of a frame. Rembrandt would look at that and say [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Allegory, Art, Culture, Iraq, bigotry, gender | Comments (12)

Young John McCain: Hawt or Nawt

June 27, 2008 – 4:05 pm

I have a long and shameful history, it must be admitted, of crushes on right-wing political figures (the sainted Pierre Elliot Trudeau notwithstanding; as always, he’s a special case) perhaps because of my poorly-disguised thing for preppies, but frankly, above all of them (even Tony Blair who is, come on, right wing) stands one man.
On [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in 60's, Celebrity, Culture, Humour, Sex, U.S., beauty, humor, sad | Comments (19)

How to: spend your carbon tax rebate

June 20, 2008 – 4:37 am

My cousin emailed me this. No idea where she stole it from, because for once it didn’t have a hundred thousand email addresses in the forwarding history:
The provincial government is sending each of us a $100 Carbon Tax rebate.
If we spend it at Wal-Mart, the money will go to China.
If we spend it on gasoline, [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in Canada, Humour, Lush Life, Operation Orwell, Vancouver, environment, government, humor, sad | Comments (8)

Osama Bin Laden parties with pagans in the Eighties

June 13, 2008 – 8:16 pm

Well, who doesn’t have a few embarrassing party pix or yearbook photos from the Eighties, eh? Why should Osama Bin Laden, who rocked the bell bottoms and turtleneck look as hard as anyone in the Seventies, escape this universal fate?
Turns out that during the Eighties he was living with the Kalasha tribesmen of the Chitral [...]

By raincoaster | Also posted in 80's, Afghanistan, Culture, Humour, Islam, Osama bin Laden, Religion, Weird, fashion, humor, terrorism | Comments (2)