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Classless Cheap Shots At Columbia
Columbia University president Lee Bollinger showed himself to be a classless buffoon yesterday, despite pronouncements from some corners of a flawless “rope-a-dope” maneuver. Let’s get a few things straight. First: he (Bollinger) and his University extended the invitation to Mad Mahmoud. They (Columbia and Bollinger) opened their doors to the figurehead of state of the…
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Archduke Ahmadinejad?
Much virtual ink has been spilled over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s request to visit the site of the World Trade Center during his visit to NYC, though I haven’t seen anyone suggest the following: Ahmadinejad believes in the Hidden 12th Imam whose reemergence will bring about the end of this current world order and the reemergence of…
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$5 Bill Makeover Screams “I am a five”, “Fabulous!”
The Treasury Dept. is looking to issue new $5 bills (since apparently the current bill is being bleached and then reprinted as counterfeit $100s in staggering numbers) and, to combat the forgers, they have initiated changes to make Lincoln’s currency more in line with other recently-revised issues (from the $100s all the way down to…
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Is Our Harvard Grads Learning? No.
This report has been making the blogospheric rounds today and it is, well, damning of our educational system’s ability to impart civic knowledge, to put it bluntly. Simply stated, when presented with a 60 question test covering basic U.S. history, civics and political philosophy, Harvard seniors scored best with a D+ average. All other schools’…
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No Respect
I was going to refrain from posting today, out of respect for the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and those that died that day, but I simply can’t let the disgraceful vandalization of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial on the eve of 9/11 go unremarked upon. I do believe that, should the perpetrators be caught, the…
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Duuuuuude, Spam?
So, spammers, what’s the deal with trying to spam my blog with “head shop” junk? Bongs, pipes, etc.? E.D. drugs and grass seed too good for you? Y’all have problems. Seriously.
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The First Rule Of Corporate Compliance Training
…Is: The correct answer is not, as one might think, the right (ethically, morally, etc.) one, but instead the one that will end up costing the Company the least amount of money in court proceedings. Keeping this rule and its close cousins (“When in doubt, the snitchy answer is best” and “Reprisals aren’t real and,…
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Viele Verbindungen
Guten Abend, meine Damen und Herren. Welcome to “Doug’s Brauhaus von Linkenarbeitsgemeinschaftigenluftenwarnungsteinen”. Tonight we are featuring a sumptuous feast of the finest in hand-picked links, personally selected by the owner. Please won’t you consider the menu? First off, we have two exquisite examples of technological cluelessness, the first of which, “Shut Up I Hack You“,…
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Spam, Distilled
No beating around the bush here, eh? *chuckle*
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Al Qaeda Comes Down Against Bending It, For Keeping Sexy Right Where It Was
It seems as if, in a bid for popular American support, al Qaeda operatives have released a video threatening the lives of David Beckham and Justin Timberlake for “corrupting” young Islamic minds. I, like much of the viewing public, remain mixed in my reaction to this news. On the one hand, al Qaeda. On the…