June 23rd 2009
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ost of a bowl of soup at homeless shelter: $0.00 dollars.
Having Michelle Obama serve you your soup: $0.00 dollars.
Snapping a picture of a homeless person who is receiving a government-funded meal while taking a picture of the First Lady using a Blackberry cell phone: Priceless.
May 30th 2009
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igh … Li’l Kim probably got more followers than me! But you can help – follow me @laerpearce.
Hat-tip: Aren
May 26th 2009
May 16th 2009
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araphrasing the Stones, you don’t always get the placement you want. Sometimes, like above, ad juxtaposition can turn out pretty darn funny. At other times, the results can be downright appalling – like the article on the toddler killed in a house fire bumped up against the ad headlined “Burn, Baby Burn!”
See more examples of weird juxtapositions here.
Somehow, this all reminds me of what was supposedly the most nefarious newspaper headline of all time. Journalistic mythology – or maybe history – says it appeared over a story about an insane asylum inmate who broke out, then broke into a house and raped a woman. The headline?
Nut Bolts, Screws
Myth? Fact? Who knows? Probably the former. But here’s one that is real; I can attest to that personally. Elder Brother spent a summer as a copy editor for The Shipping and Trade News, an English-language Tokyo newspaper full of, you know, news about shipping and trading. One day he was tasked with editing and writing the headline for a story about a spiffy new sewage barge Tokyo had just put into service, replacing an older barge whose mechanical bucket just wasn’t capable of keeping up with the monstrous amounts of raw sewage waiting to be dumped into the once-pristine waters of Tokyo Bay. His headline? For real:
The Rise and Fall of the Turd Winch
Hat-tip for the unfortunately placed ad link: Incredible Daughter #1
May 11th 2009
Or is it a good argument against gun control? I’m so confused.
Hat-tip: Well, the Web site’s name is too profane to mention.
April 24th 2009
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he White House has issued a clarification on its stated policy regarding operations in Somalia related to the activities of pirates, and apologized for the recent incident in which three pirates were killed.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs confirmed that the Navy had misunderstood President Obama’s orders, resulting in the unfortunate death of three working class, teenage pirates and a probable deterioration in how pacifists and life-long America-haters may feel about America.
Gibbs stated that a careful review of audiotapes of a conversation between the president and the Secretary of Navy proved the president did not say, “I authorize ATTACKS on the pirates,” but rather, “I authorize A TAX on the pirates.”
Gibbs said that as a result of the missunderstanding, the president has issued a formal apology, which will be delivered to Somalia as soon as someone finds a Somali government official to deliver it to. Gibbs also confirmed that the president has signed a new excutive order, ruling that 95 percent of Somalis will now receive a tax cut.
April 15th 2009
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hat’s right, boys and girls, an AK47 made entirely of bacon, which, as you know, is made entirely of pigs. And to jihadists it’s tough and know which is worse: pigs or infidels. So what better way could there be to send a jihadist to an eternity without God or virgins?
Read more about the BA-K-47 at Geekologie.
And for the first time in the history of C-SM, I’ve put “humor” and “jihad” tags together!
April 13th 2009
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ncredible Daughter #1′s boyfriend snapped this photo the other day in LA and emailed it down to me. I have to say, that young man knows how to make me smile … and that’s quite a skill for a boyfriend of a daughter to have, eh?
For those with fading vision, here’s what it says: LTD*GOV. I’m surprised DMV, as part of California’s virtually unlimited government, approved it.
April 10th 2009
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esterday I shared the madcap, arrogant, dangerous scheme of Obama science advisor John Holdren to SAVE THE PLANET! by polluting the upper atmosphere. Now, thanks to the in-depth research of Incredible Daughter #1 I am able to reveal the secret climate weapon in detail:
Hat-tip: Gizmodo
The Obama administration told us that not only would they be very good at spending unfathomable sums of money, but they’d also be maestros at turning that cash into jobs for a job-hungry America. Like so many White House words, the Big Job Promise is turning out to be nothing more than hype-fuel for the [...]
With Obama winning the presidency by seven percent, we can't blame the media. Their laudatory coverage and refusal to extensively probe into Obama's background and [lack of] experience was at best responsible for five percent of his vote, the pundits tell us. Here is a compilation of over 100 significant instances of pro-Obama/anti-McCain bias during the 2008 campaign.
"Thank you for the Voice of the Victims films. The students really liked it, and it means so much to them to hear real stories and not watch a cheesy drama like so many other videos."
— a high school teacher.
The most powerful film about drugs of choice and choices about drugs.
