Archive for May, 2006

NYT employs French people

Thursday, May 25th, 2006

I’m glad to see that, with unemployment so high in France and all, the New York Times is really picking up the slack. They’ve recruited a small army of generalization experts from Le Ministere des Stereotypes Culturels to dispense French-sounding wisdom for the American audience. From today’s meeting with le squad du generalisation come these […]

Want to stop leaks? Don’t do bad things

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

Alberto Gonzales wants you to know the government is serious about stopping leaks. So serious, in fact, that it might consider prosecuting reporters under espionage laws. Prosecuting journalists would be an interesting method of leak control, when one of the decade’s two most famous leaks came from Bush and Cheney themselves. The other, of […]

Have the culture wars jumped the shark?

Friday, May 12th, 2006

“Sexual union in marriage,” says Dr. Joseph Stanford, “ought to be a complete giving of each spouse to the other, and when fertility (or potential fertility) is deliberately excluded from that giving I am convinced that something valuable is lost.” Stanford is a public figure — he sits on the FDA’s Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory […]

Ready to kill myself and eat my dog

Friday, May 5th, 2006

Good Day to you!
I am ready to kill myself and eat my dog, if medicine prices here ([link redacted]) are bad.
Look, the site and call me 1-800 if its wrong..

Gonna do it in that order, Mr. 1-800?

Why Frida has problems

Friday, May 5th, 2006

Growing up was rough for little Frida Hanna. Her mom was a racecar driver and her dad sold Mary Kay. Mom and Dad split up when she was five. Money was tight, so they lived out of their cars. When it was time to switch custody, Mom would just chuck little Frida through Dad’s […]

Ralph Malph Mo-Malph Banana Fanna Fo-Falph

Thursday, May 4th, 2006

According to the New York Times, Ralph Fiennes has changed his name to something a little more alliterative.

Not to be outdone, Martin Sheen will become Martin Meen, and Jude Law will be known as Vivian Vance.

Madeleine Albright’s sister got my package

Tuesday, May 2nd, 2006

Last night’s Colbert Report, with its celebration of the first-ever spam message, inspired me to take a look into my spam folder once again. I found this note from my buddy Vivian Albright:
thank you for smurf pills
You’re welcome, Vivian. It took me a while to find them, but it will be worth it. In no […]