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An unaired promo for VOCM’s afternoon talk show, as imagined by Donny Dooley. Sorry for people on mobile devices who can’t get this. Apparently it might not work for you.…
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Right-Wingers Aren’t Funny: Part XLVII
Here’s another utterly dismal attempt at comedy by right-wing partisans, this time from the ultra-conservative folks at Pajamasmedia with a fake newscast presumably intended to resemble The Onion. Minus anything…
“Conservative” Beer Review
A retarded Bloggin’ Tory maroon turns his acute sensibilities and keen perceptions of world events to the more demanding task of reviewing various kinds of beer… For some bizarre reason…
Pizza May Contain Veggies, Boards Contain Nuts
Once upon a time, Saskboy made a pizza. It was not according to the design of the requester, instead it had nutritious onions on it. Saskboy got the cold shoulder…
What Gregor Roberston’s win means to the right wing: “Vancouverites are now raising sheep and growing corn in their backyards”
You know how right wingers love to predict the end of the world if a non-conservative is elected? Republican presidential contenders in the States are predicting death panels, rampant socialism…
Introducing Lieutenant Pike’s New Blog
Everything you wanted to know about pepper spray but were afraid to ask. H/T: Dr. Dawg
constitution? never heard of it.
This and many others courtesy of BoingBoing, via the OWS Library blog.
HIGNFY on OCW
Panelists on the BBC comedy quiz show Have I Got News For You trade jibes about the OCW movement in London. Great line by Ian Hislop responding to the silly…
A Park Divided
Last night’s TDS featured correspondent Sam Bee reporting on the class division that supposedly had been growing between different factions in the OCW encampment before it was dismantled. “As it…
From the “Jokes that write themselves” file
A newspaper headline goes horribly wrong: Unless it’s a story about Tubesock-Or-Bust at long last meeting his idol Sarah Palin? (Image swiped shamelessly from Preliator pro Causa)
who wrote shakespeare? eric idle knows.
A while back, wmtc had a discussion about the supposed controversy of the authorship of Shakespeare’s plays, after I read the book Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare, by James Shapiro.…
Climate Change Action Delayed Due To Extreme Weather
It sure would be nice if this was just a joke.
New Rules: 11/11/11
From the last show of the season. “If A Christmas Carol was performed by the Tea Party Dramatic Society, it would be a cautionary tale about how the hero, Scrooge…
Mayors Out Of Touch: MOOT Canada
I think it’s time for Rob Ford to “leave” office, and “move on”. – Constitutional law expert and University of Saskatchewan professor Dwight Newman appeared on Richard Brown Wednesday afternoon,…
in which a talking dog distracts us from boring schoolwork
Ah, November. Along with its evil twin March, the worst months for university and grad students. The school term is almost over, yet so much work is still ahead of…
Explaining Gay Rights
Not exactly relevant in Canada, but still useful for dealing with your fundamentalist relatives over the holiday season.
All You Really Need to Know About Herman Cain
Herman Cain sees the Virgin Mary on a tortilla: He has won over some voters . . . by telling them that, when he was suffering from colon cancer, he…
Cain 2012: Performance Art Project?
We should have known at Pokemon! Rachel Maddow is now convinced that Herman Cain’s campaign is nothing more than an elaborate performance art project. As far as offbeat theories to…
In Over Their Heads
Bill Maher’s rebuttal to the right-wing talking point that President Obama is a failure because he’s “in over his head”… You can watch the entire show at this site.