Some liberal activists handed out 1.2 million copies of a New York Times spoof dated July 4, 2009 to commuters in New York, L.A., San Francisco, Chicago, D.C. and Philadelphia. You can see the web version of the spoof here.
Among the "stories" in the 14-page paper:
Them crazy liberals.
BoingBoing has the Billboard Liberation Front's version of a Wachovia billboard in San Francisco. Below are the before and after pics.
According to the Unitarian Jihad Name Generator my name is The Cattle Prod of Mild Reason. Visit the site to find your own.
Hat tip to Lex "The Sword of Moderation" Alexander for pointing to the site.
Saturday Night Live has been pretty bad for a few years now. It’s gotten so bad that we’ve pretty much stopped watching it in our house over the last few years. However, they’ve struck gold with Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin impressions. Last night’s opening, which featured a parody of Palin’s interviews with Katie Couric last week were a great example. As Ed Cone wrote, it’s almost not funny considering how close to reality the parody was. See for yourself below:
The obituaries that appear in the Winston-Salem Journal are a tad dry, and they tend to involve people walking with Jesus or entering God’s embrace. They’re usually quite nice and heartfelt, but they really aren’t the kind of thing I envision for myself when the time comes. Me, I want mine to read something like this one in the Casper Star Tribune (Wyoming) newspaper. An excerpt for you:
Jim, who had tired of reading obituaries noting other’s courageous
battles with this or that disease, wanted it known that he lost his
battle. It was primarily as a result of being stubborn and not
following doctor’s orders or maybe for just living life a little too
hard for better than five decades…He
was sadly deprived of his final wish, which was to be run over by a
beer truck on the way to the liquor store to buy booze for a date. True
to his personal style, he spent his final hours joking with medical
personnel, cussing and begging for narcotics and bargaining with God to
look over his loving dog, Biscuit, and his family.He would like to thank all "his ladies" for putting up with him the last 30 years.
You’d have to change that last line from the plural "all his ladies" to the singular "his lady", but other than that I think it reads well. Celeste really could be classified as "long suffering wife " but she’s a trooper and I think she’d appreciate the acknowledgment one way or another.
It’s not often you hear a US presidential candidate described as "tasty", but then again this is the first time John McCain’s gotten the nod from his party. The quote comes from a Brazilian model that McCain had a McFling with when he was a midshipman over 50 years ago:
While John McCain
attended his 50th Naval Academy reunion Saturday, a Brazilian beauty
fondly recalled the affair she had with the young "good kissing"
midshipman she met a half a century ago."He was tasty, loving
and romantic," says Maria Gracinda Teixeira de Jesus, 77, a former
beauty queen and dancer, of the young John McCain, whom she met in Rio de Janeiro in 1957.
Down in Florida (where else?) there’s a babysitting operation that would put even the most nervous parent at ease. See the sign to the left. (Found on Tacky Fabulous via Boing Boing)
Deadspin says the following about Wake Forest’s football heroes:
3. Riley Skinner and Sam Swank are Wake Forest football stars.
They also have the greatest gay porn names this side of Vince Young.
What’s the over/under on number of inappropriate posters that are
getting confiscated at rival ACC stadiums connected to Skinner’s naked photos?
Better question, name a BCS team that you would eliminate from
contention to win the ACC this year. There isn’t one. Vanderbilt would
have a chance to win the ACC this year. Seriously, they would.
I really have been surprised that the story of Skinner sending naked pics of himself to some girls and those pictures making it online never seemed to get any attention. Honestly, I like the kid’s play at QB and I shudder to think of the stupid things I’d have done if the web was around when I was in school so I can’t say that he’s done anything dumber than I might have, but the fact of the matter is that Skinner is the starting QB of a top-20 football team and yet no one has said much about his, uh, image being spread all over the web. Normally this kind of story would get some attention, especially in ACC markets, but I’ve seen next to nothing. I posted about it in January when someone sent me the link to the original Deadspin story, and figured I’d eventually see something about it in the paper, but I didn’t. I think one of the local TV stations did a bit on the story, but I’m not sure.
BTW, it’s not like the story is a state secret. If you Google "Riley Skinner" the second result is a blog for NC State fans and the post about Skinner has 58 comments. Me thinks that when Wake hits the road there’s gonna be some heckling from the stands.
Shawn Johnson won gold and silver medals in gymnastics at the recently concluded 08 Summer Games in Beijing. Obviously it’s time for her to cash in and help her parents pay off the multiple mortgages they took out to finance her Olympic dream. I’m thinking she can do better than the Ortega commercial below. Let’s just say that people online are having fun with her line, "Ortega makes my taco pop."
Sitting in the waiting room at WFU MRI Center and it’s 10 P.M. Some guy is telling everyone that will listen about his 200+ kidney stones. I quote: "The ones you pass are different than the others. The ones that set will make me draw double like a guy having a heart attack."
We’ve also heard about the belts he’s had custom made since his size is hard to find. Oh, and he’s been a furr-fighter, oh wait, a firefighter. I was worried there for a second
The TV is tuned to NBC. Worst reality show ever is on now (Democratic Convention) and the second worst just ended…some show that had normal people pretending they were on Deadliest Catch.
Now the guy is talking about Michael Moore’s health care movie (I believe that would be Sicko). Said it made a lot of sense
He says he’s been here for two hours. His wife girlfriend just got called back and set him loose on the rest of us
Now we’re hearing about the ills of health insurance. I’m with him there.
People are leaving and I might end up alone with him.
I’m trying to hide
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