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Yahoo's "Values" [UPDATED]

Yahoo has a page that covers everything, except contacting them or seeking managerial responsibility. Yet, this faceless corporate entity has the audacity to pretend to be everything they stand...

created by dysamoria | 2 years ago | updated 12 wks ago
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The Onion Thinks Sex Trafficking is Hilarious

"The shirt says "My friend went to Thailand and all I got was this lousy kidnapped prostitute". Note the helpful disclaimer: "*Prostitute Not Included". Notice that the catalog entry just says "all I got was this lousy prostitute", but the shirt itself refers specifically to...

opinion by generaldecay | 17 wks ago | updated 17 wks ago
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Six Big Government Programs Conservatives Can Eliminate

Over at NetRightNation, there's a writer named Michael Swartz who says that ideological purity among conservatives would be more useful than all these summer "tea parties". He says: ""Thoughtful advocates of limited government need to make sure that the education they...

opinion by francislholland | 17 wks ago | updated 17 wks ago
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Spinal Tap recording new material

"Spinal Tap are recording their first new material in nearly twenty years." This really needs no more words. Seriously, Spinal Tap are going to record new material. Did you hear that? Spinal Tap are going...

created by generaldecay | 48 wks ago | updated 47 wks ago
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PM's terror stand comes back to haunt him

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PM's terror stand comes back to haunt him

"NEW DELHI: Of all his formulations, the one that has returned most often to haunt Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is the assertion that Pakistan too, like India, was a victim of terrorism. The macabre irony...

created by nehalarya | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Obama and the Palin Effect - a Mirror on the US Psyche

"Sometimes politics has the uncanny effect of mirroring the national psyche even when nobody intended to do that. This is perfectly illustrated by the rousing effect that Gov. Sarah Palin had on the Republican convention in Minneapolis this week. On the surface, she outdoes...

created by phoenixesrose | 1 year ago
290 views | 19 recommendations | 5 comments

Pulling Myself Back Together, by lawdog

"Pulling Myself Back Together"

created by lawdog | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
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Australia ire over chef's f-words

"Australia ire over chef's f-words Ramsay is notorious for his expletive-filled tirades The oaths and expletives for which colourful British TV...

created by agdobson | 1 year ago
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infomatique

Guevara children denounce Che branding

Che Guevara is an icon of the 20th century whose brand has turned into a worldwide marketing phenomenon. The fact that Guevara was a communist guerrilla and Marxist ideologue is an irony of little interest to his...

created by infomatique | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago
386 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments

What the tourists miss in Mexico

This is a blog from www.mexicoreporter.com."What the tourists miss January 16, 2008 · No Comments My folks just flew back last night after a month-long stay in Mexico. Amongst the places they visited, either with me or alone, were Oaxaca, Puebla and Acapulco. ‘I don’t...

created by MexicoReporter | 1 year ago
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Violence Against Women Is Still a Problem in Saudi Arabia

" Abeer Mishkhas, abeermishkhas@arabnews.com Last Sunday, along with the rest of the world, Saudi Arabia celebrated a day dedicated to Eliminating Violence Against Women. Newspapers carried articles and editorials on the importance of the day and TV naturally gave the day a...

created by René | 2 years ago
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Tom van B

US Politics: Brainless on the Potomac

The relationship between Bush and Rove and how it influenced so much within American politics. An insightful article by Charles McPhedran who has worked for ABC Triple J and SBS Radio News as a journalist, and is...

created by Tom van B | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Hiker Dies Of Thirst With Water All Around

N.J. Man Led By Guides Carrying Water Collapses And Dies On Utah Survival Trek This is a shock-value story. Read the full story at http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/03/travel/main2757021.shtml?source=RSSattr=U.S._2757021

created by 1websurfer | 2 years ago
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Inuit woman builds north-south bridges - Helps Red River attract Nunavut stud...

It is the irony of Simona Baker's work that she informs people about Inuit culture at the same time as she tries to tear part of that culture down. Baker, the Nunavut representative at Red River College, organized an Inuit fashion and culture show Wednesday to raise awareness...

created by liamssoft | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Cruelty and xenophobia stir and shame the lucky country

"The Australian writer Donald Horne meant the title of his celebrated book, The Lucky Country, as irony. "Australia is a lucky country run by second-rate people who share its luck," he lamented in 1964, describing much of the Australian elite as unfailingly unoriginal,...