Sme has an interesting graphic previewing the Stanley Cup Finals that start tonight, with a predictable emphasis on the Slovak players on each side.
I didn’t pay much attention to it initially, until I realized that Marián Hossa’s head had been quite clearly Photoshopped onto the body of some Red Wing player who hoisted the Cup [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Stanley Cup Finals preview, Slovak style!
Posted in diversion, send in the Slavs, tagged hockey, NHL, Sidney Crosby, Stanley Cup on 30 May 2009 | 3 Comments »
Those who forget the past …
Posted in Obamarama, don't want to be an American idiot, fun with conservatives, news, tagged dumb and dumber on 29 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
… miss offensive historical references.
The publisher of a newspaper in Warren, Pa., is scrambling to apologize after the paper’s advertising staff ran a classified ad calling for Barack Obama’s assassination.
The text of the ad:
May Obama follow in the steps of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy!
According to the publisher, the ad staff didn’t realize that Obama’s [...]
Plotting
Posted in acamademia, course development, dissertation, tagged course development, lecturing, teaching on 24 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I managed to finish writing lectures and other course preparation for my class this quarter, with about two weeks to spare. I still have to deliver the last four lectures, and hold office hours, and, most tragically, grade the second set of papers and the final. But, I consider all that fairly easy, even [...]
New research suggests additional benefits of Mozart
Posted in diversion, possible homes in exile, the Internet is a series of tubes on 23 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s a little late, but I just came across this brilliant observation from a friend’s blog about the Mozart-Eurovision connection:
Past visits by Mozart (see above) appear to inoculate a country against selection to the Eurovision finals (Germany, France and England have automatic bids) and in some cases (Luxemburg, Italy, Austria), even from desire to enter.
Mozart’s [...]
A new report: The American Way officially sucks
Posted in don't want to be an American idiot, tagged unemployment on 22 May 2009 | 1 Comment »
New international unemployment are forthcoming, and when the data are crunched, it’s expected to reveal U.S. unemployment has risen higher than the EU rate.
Sure, the U.S. rate, which reached 8.9 percent in April, isn’t higher than every EU member state. Things are quite a bit worse in Ireland and Spain (naturally, two European countries that had [...]
The world is on Facebook
Posted in diversion, don't want to be an American idiot, the Internet is a series of tubes, tagged Facebook, international conflict by internet proxy, proxy war on 16 May 2009 | 2 Comments »
It’s true. (Sort of.)
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty has created a model of what it would look like if the countries of the world had their own Facebook pages.
While the U.S.-Pakistan-Taliban “poke war” is amusing, my favorite part has to be “Russia and the United States are pretending to be friends.”
I so wish someone at RFE/RL [...]
Oddly enough, Trotsky also had a “secret blend of eleven herbs and spices” …
Posted in cartoons, diversion, video games on 15 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
… which probably explains why Stalin was so eager to kill Trotsky before he could leak the secret to Kremlin Fried Chicken to Trotsky’s doppelganger, Colonel Sanders.
Then again, it’s debatable whether fried chicken could’ve been as effective a vehicle for spreading the gospel according to St. Marx as Stalin’s hit idea of restyling himself as [...]
The gay tax
Posted in don't want to be an American idiot, tagged "gay tax", gay marriage on 15 May 2009 | 2 Comments »
Here’s an interesting read via NPR about how the tragically named “Defense of Marriage Act” from 1996 amounts to a “gay tax” on same-sex couples.
We have the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act to thank for that. DOMA defines marriage as being the legal union of a man and a woman. On that basis, the federal [...]
That turn of phrase sucks, er, blows
Posted in ridiculing the NYT for sport, tagged Anita Bonghit, bad puns, Michael Phelps on 12 May 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Today’s prize for worst pun goes to Karen Crouse of the NYT, from a story about Michael Phelps’ return after a three-month ban for being photographed hitting a bong:
With the high-degree-of-difficulty phase of the plan completed to perfection, there seemed like less need for a safety net. Bowman broke ground on his horse farm in [...]
