World in the Making

Greene Jobs

The Democrat-party candidate for U.S. Senator from South Carolina, Alvin Greene, expatiates in an interview in  the Guardian on his plan for creating jobs in his home state: "Another thing we can do for jobs is make toys of me, especially for the holidays. Little dolls. Me. Like maybe little action dolls. Me in an army uniform, air force uniform, and me in my suit. They can make toys of me and my vehicle, especially for the holidays and Christmas for the kids. That's something that would create jobs. So you see I think out of the box like that. It's not something a typical person would bring up. That's something that could happen, that makes sense. It's not a joke."

If You've Got the Time, We've Got the Beer

A drunk New Zealand man, trapped in the car he'd crashed and overturned, threw back another cold one while waiting to be rescued.

Vietnam Vett; or, We Weren't Soldiers

Attorney General of Connecticut Richard Blumenthal, a Democrat running for a seat in the U.S. Senate, lies about his military service, claiming he served in Vietnam while never having done so.

My Wet Back Pages

At the National Review Online John Derbyshire posts on the interests, research, and publications of the faculty of the "Raza Studies Department" at San Francisco State University, much of it the usual post-modern nonsensical gibberish. 

According to information on the University website, one of the scholars in the department, Roberto Rodriguez, is putting the finishing touches to a book about "Liberation Discourse which examines the semantics of counter-hegemony in the philosophies of Gustavo Gutierrez and Paulo Freire." 

Aboriginal Sin

In Olympic competition, Russian pair skaters taking inspiration for their routine, music, and costumes from Aborigine culture offend Official Aborigines who think the conception and performance  inauthentic and disrespectful.

Fie, The Beloved Country

Obama Gives Americans Low Marks for First Year

Washington, D.C., February 8, 2010

 

Americans are seen in an increasingly negative light by their president,

Barack Hussein Obama, according to a new Gallup poll, with 99%

of his fellow citizens failing to meet his expectations.

 

The latest polling of the president, conducted February 7, reveals that the

president does not disapprove of only 1% of his countrymen, down from

the 2% he did not disapprove of at the time of the last polling, November 11, 2008.

 

The results of the poll suggest that the traditional presidential “honeymoon”—

the early, harmonious period when a new president gives his fellow citizens

the benefit of the doubt, however serious his misgivings about them—is over.

 

Of the 99% of his fellow Americans of whom President Obama disapproves,

according to the poll, he “Somewhat Disapproves” of 16%; “Strongly Disapproves”

of 28%, and “Totally Disapproves” of 55%.

 

Of the 1% of Americans of whom the president does not disapprove, he gave his opinion

as being “Not Sure.”

 

And, according to some experts, prospects for a resurgence in the popularity of Americans

with Mr. Obama is poor: once the people lose the regard and good will of this president,

experts say, there is little or no chance of them making a comeback.

 

The Gallup poll surveyed one sworn-in, but un-vetted, president for a margin of error of +/- 0.0%.

 

 

Audacity of Hoop

In his victory speech Senator-elect of Massachusetts Scott Brown challenged President Obama to a game of two on two basketball against him and his daughter Ayla, who plays on the women's team of Boston College.

The Primes of Miss Jean Brodie

According to a so-called study, little girls do worse at math than boys because their female teachers pass on to their charges their own fears of the subject. 

The Mouse That Drawered

In an audio recording released to an Arab news station, Osama bin Laden—or someone claiming to be him—says he was behind the attempted bombing of an airliner bound for Detroit on Christmas Day, and hails the Nigerian who carried the explosive device onto the plane in his effeminate underwear a "heroic warrior."

Bush-League Doctrine

According to the Hopey-Change Messiah, the voters of Massachusetts elected a Republican to the Senate seat held for some forty years by Democrat Ted Kennedy because they are still angry and frustrated with former president George W. Bush. 

I found this "morph" image at the Pine Hill News website.

I'm In The Mood For Luvs

Former candidate for president John Edward admits, after many months of denial, that he is father of the child born to Rielle Hunter, a woman who worked on his campaign; and a former aide of his alleges that Edwards asked him to find a doctor to fake a paternity test and to steal a used diaper from the infant to perform a real paternity test.

Rebel Without a Course

Tiger Woods, unseen in public since he crashed his car in the middle of the night while fleeing his golf-club-wielding wife, is under treatment at a clinic in Hattiesburg, Mississippi for a so-called sex addiction.

In the Royal Pink; or, Salmon-chanted Evening

At the Frisky website is a posting entitled "Giving New Meaning to Food Porn" that discusses and illustrates a preparation of fish resembling the vagina.

Bad Day at Black Rod

Former governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich apologizes for saying he's "blacker than Barack Obama." He also conceded that the assertion is false.

Turing Japanese

A Frenchman has computed the value of the mathematical constant pi to 2.7 trillion places of decimals, and in doing so, surpassed the record established by a Japanese.

Oui Finally Got a Piece of the Pi

A Frenchman has computed the value of the mathematical constant pi to 2.7 trillion places of decimals, and in doing so, surpassed the record established by a Japanese.

The Beast and Brightest

A government agency of the city of New York has produced a pamphlet of instructions for how best to shoot up heroin, entitled "Take Charge, Take Care."

Ripple Affect

The late, great James Mason pitches in a television commercial for Thunderbird wine, a great favorite of bums and winos. He describes the flavor of the wine as "unusual."

Revel Without a Cause

Jerry Levin, former chief executive of Time Warner, apologizes for having sold the company in exchange for shares of AOL, a transaction he describes as the "worst deal of the century."

Unchained McMelodi

Angry that the Chicken McNuggets she'd ordered were unavailable, a woman in Ohio punches her fist through the drive-through window.

Dinner Belle; or, Ye Supper Fools Gladly

A Texas woman faces charges for making a multitude of nuisance calls to 911, including one to complain that her husband refused to eat his dinner.

Decorations of Reds on a Green Christmas Tree

According to a posting at Andrew Breibart's Big Government website, the Christmas tree at the White House is decorated with at least one ornament displaying an image of Communist dictator and mass murderer Mao Tse Tung— and another, of a "legendary" transvestite, one Hedda Lettuce.

Saab Story

General Motors will close down all operations of Saab and discontinue marketing vehicles under that brand.

Chasing Tail, Tiger Turns to Butter

To the growing list of women with whom Tiger Woods has cheated on his wife, add one Cori Rist, whom he met in New York at Club Butter.

Don't Leaf Me Now; or, Lawn But Not Forgotten

Before the last of the illegal aliens from Mexico is deported, would someone please make sure they leave behind instructions for operating a leaf blower.

Tiger, By His Tail

Another woman, this one described as a Las Vegas model, reveals in a story sold to the Sunday Mirror that she had an affair with pro golfer Tiger Woods.

Bow to Win Friends and Influence People

Photos in a video posted on YouTube contrast the self-respecting, appropriate comportment of a multitude of world leaders on meeting the emperor of Japan, with the self-abasing, inappropriate bowing on that occasion by President of the United States Barack Hussein Obama.

Whack a Mohel

When following up the story that some public health officials in the U.S. favor
circumcising all new-born boys in the country, I learned that, believe it or not, there's an organization whose mission is to oppose the practice and discredit it.

Prelude To A Bris

Some public health officials in the U.S. and other domestic "experts" think it might be a good idea, in fighting the "epidemic" of AIDS, to require that all baby boys in the country be circumcised.

NASA's In The Cold, Cold Ground

A funny parody of the documentaries of Ken Burns, producer of The Civil War and Baseball, posted at YouTube.

Writer Steve Sailer thinks Burns cares about nothing so much as including stories about African-Americans, however slight their importance to his subject. Sailer makes a case for his view in a very entertaining column at Taki's Magazine.