by on May 31, 2006 | Trackback URI | 
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As questionable as some of their tactics sound, wingmen profess to have a moral code when it comes to their buddies. One rule is, don’t say something embarrassing about your friend to the girl he’s after, even if it makes you look witty.
Another, and possibly the most significant, is this: Never, as the wingman, hit on the target yourself.
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In the world of the obvious, Gary Weiss at Salon writes about how the Enron case didn’t and won’t alter the behavior of executives inclined to commit corporate crime. My response on Salon was as follows:
… But a lot of this seems, frankly, OBVIOUS. There is little incentive not to commit crime when you are an executive. And the problem is not the executives, but that the crimes committed have little penalties, and would willing be committed by someone else. In economic terms, there is too much opportunity cost (read: money), to not commit a crime that is at best lightly punished.
I don’t want to condone any behavior, but regardless, you cannot expect much out of people who have gained their positions with a combination of intelligence and greed.
Also at Salon, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad talks about Israel, his letter to Bush and Iran’s nuclear ambitions. Synopsis: Zionists, Zionists, Jews, Zionists… oh and also Jews.
The good news about a new Dutch political party: part of their platform includes “”includes ideas for other areas of public policy including legalizing all soft and hard drugs and free train travel for all.” The bad news? It’s being formed by a group of pedophiles. In a quality quote about pedophilia, “A ban just makes children curious,” Ad van den Berg, one of the party’s founders, told the Algemeen Dagblad (AD) newspaper.
Oh, also, there’s a new Laguna Beach shoot off beginning tonight on MTV. I will be sorely disappointed if I don’t see the bare body of an over-developed California teen 1 minute into the show.
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Kristen listed these details:
* You and Kristen hooked up in 1969 and it was awkward. Holden kept talking about ducks and some pond.
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PS. Numerous studies have shown that Fox News viewers, especially Mr. O’Reilly’s, are among the most ignorant.
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by on May 25, 2006 | Trackback URI | Email This Post | 2 Views
Do you have an idiot friend who likes the Da Vinci Code? Are you someone’s idiot friend that likes the Da Vinci Code? You or said idiot friend should then be directed to a New Yorker review of the Da Vinci Code movie. Some highlights include:
There is also Silas (Paul Bettany), a cowled albino monk whose hobbies include self-flagellation, multiple homicide, and irregular Latin verbs.
There has been much debate over Dan Brown’s novel ever since it was published, in 2003, but no question has been more contentious than this: if a person of sound mind begins reading the book at ten o’clock in the morning, at what time will he or she come to the realization that it is unmitigated junk? The answer, in my case, was 10:00.03.
Should we mind that forty million readers—or, to use the technical term, “lemmings”—have followed one another over the cliff of this long and laughable text?
Do you have an idiot friend who plays make believe on Sunday mornings? Are you someone’s idiot friend who prays to make believe entities on Sunday morning? Then you should consider this, and this:
And in the humourous piece of the day, the Onion has some good solutions for the immigration issue. A viable Mexican economy? What the hell would anyone gain from that?
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by on May 25, 2006 | Trackback URI | Email This Post | 11 Views
#1. Procure internship in White House or Congress, attend local intern gatherings, and get your fat lips around as many male membranes as possible
#2. Blog about it.
#3. Get caught blogging about said mouth around said male membranes, and watch the endorsements and book deals pile up.
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