Damian Penny has moved to a brand new site and has shed his blogger past for the wonders of Movable Type.
Fix your links.
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Damian Penny has moved to a brand new site and has shed his blogger past for the wonders of Movable Type.
Fix your links.
by John Cole| 4 Comments
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How hard do you have to work to make me feel bad for Howell Raines and the NY Times? About this hard (if the Drudge snippets are to be believed):
This post is in: Humorous
Generally, I don’t post jokes, but this one had me laughing hysterically. A friend sent it to me, so many ofyou have probably seen it, but here it is anyway:
WHY I FIRED MY SECRETARY
Two weeks ago was my 35th birthday and I wasn’t feeling too hot that morning anyway. I went to breakfast knowing my wife would be pleasant and say “Happy Birthday” and probably have a present for me.
She didn’t even say “Good Morning” let alone any “Happy Birthday.”
I thought, “Well, that’s wives for you, the children will remember.” The children came in to breakfast and didn’t say a word.
When I started to the office I was feeling pretty low and despondent. As I walked into my office my secretary, Janet, said, “Good morning, boss; Happy Birthday.” And I felt a little better; someone had remembered.
I worked until noon. Then, Janet knocked on my door and said, “You know, it’s such a beautiful day outside and it’s your birthday, let’s go to lunch, just you and me.” I said, “By George, that’s the greatest thing I’ve heard all day. Let’s go.”
We went to lunch. We didn’t go where we normally go; we went out to the country to a little private place.
We had two martinis and enjoyed lunch tremendously.
On the way back to the office, she said, “You know, it’s such a beautiful day. We don’t need to go back to the office, do we?”
I said, “No, I guess not.”
She said, “Let’s go to my apartment.” After arriving at her apartment she said, “Boss, if you don’t mind, I think I’ll go change.”
“Sure,” I excitedly replied.
She went into the bedroom and, in about six minutes, she came out carrying a big birthday cake; followed by my wife, children, and dozens of our friends, all singing Happy Birthday.
And there I sat… on the couch… naked.
by John Cole| 4 Comments
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I like teasing the French as much as anyone, but this is the most absurd thing I have ever heard:
Bobby French, a prep infielder in Austin, Texas, is on a one-man “Just Say Non” campaign.
In a light-hearted jab at the tensions between France and the United States over the war in Iraq, French has the announcer at Westlake High introduce him as “Bobby Freedom” each time he steps up to bat.
As his coach, Jim Darilek, told the Austin American-Statesman: “He thinks it’s pretty cool.”
It also explains why he tends to lay off the high fromage.
Bobby Freedom?
by John Cole| 5 Comments
This post is in: General Stupidity
Drudge is headlining the following story:
Rep. Dick Gephardt (D-Mo.) has missed 162 votes in the House this year
by John Cole| 2 Comments
This post is in: Outrage
Maybe the corrupt scumbags at MCI deserve Danny Glover as their spokesman:
MCI, the former WorldCom, agreed today to settle accusations of fraud by the Securities and Exchange Commission by paying a $500 million penalty that will ultimately be given to investors.
The penalty was the largest ever sought by the commission, and the agreement resolves the biggest fraud case ever filed by the agency. If it is approved by a federal judge in Manhattan, it will also remove one of the last significant obstacles to MCI’s emerging from the largest Chapter 11 bankruptcy ever filed.
I am glad they are paying a fine, but this is not enough. I agree with SBC Communications:
But some of MCI’s industry rivals said that the settlement was too small and ineffective. “This is a pittance compared to the significant financial harm they’ve caused investors, pension funds, the marketplace and even their own customers,” SBC Communications said in a statement this afternoon. “We’re disappointed a company that can instigate this much trouble gets away with a slap on the wrist as a cost of doing illegal business.”
And lawyers representing investors led by the New York State employees’ pension fund who have filed a class-action lawsuit said that the $500 million would not satisfy claims of shareholders who say they have lost “tens of billions of dollars” from MCI’s misleading accounting.
*** Update ***
This pisses me off.
This post is in: Democratic Stupidity
“More cooperation with Pakistan.”
Four words. After spending ten minutes haranguing the Bush administration tonight on Hardball for ‘dropping the ball on Al Qaeda’ and ‘not finishing them off,’ that was John Kerry’s response when Matthews asked him what he would do differently in the war on terror.
Possible 2004 Kerry Campaign slogans:
“My ideas fit on bumper stickers.”
-or-
“If you thought Bush was dumb and liked it, why not try really dumb?”