I’ve just been told Emmy Award winner, and sometime commenter Billy Crystal was recently in an accident at the local chemical factory. He is currently in the hospital, and we’ll have more details as soon as they become available.
In other news Meme #9, a comedy about an effeminate nerd who searches the internet for the [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Sad News
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged accident, Billy Crystal, chemical factory, Emmy Award, meme on September 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
L’shanah Tovah!
Posted in Theology, tagged Hebrew Crunk, Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah on September 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Oh behalf of all of us at A Nice Place™, I would like to wish all of our Jewish readers (if we have any) a happy new year. And offer them this video.
Arabian Crash
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Crash, Saudi Arabia, Women Drivers on September 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »
A young woman in Saudi Arabia who defied ultra-conservative kingdom’s ban on women driving was injured when the car span out of control and plunged into a stream, a newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Women drivers…
Hope she gets well. And despite the danger on the road, I hope all women there soon gain the ability to drive.
Nobel Dude: American Writing Too “Insular”
Posted in Literature, tagged America, Europe, insular, Nobel Prize on September 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
TOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) – The man who announces the Nobel Prize in literature says the United States is too “insular” and ignorant to compete with Europe when it comes to great writing.
In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Horace Engdahl said Tuesday that “Europe still is the center of the literary world.”
Dude, this is [...]
Sing For Change
Posted in Politics, tagged Change, Change For America, Children, Experienced Hopeful Positive Change for America's Futur, Hope, North Korea, Obama, Positive Change, Propaganda, Sing For Change on September 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »
How do they expect this to convince people?
Check out some of the lyrics:
We’re gonna spread happiness
We’re gonna spread freedom
Obama’s gonna change it
Obama’s gonna lead ‘em
We’re gonna change it
And rearrange it
We’re gonna change the world.
If you’re going to do creepy propaganda, lose your inhibitions and do it the Juche Way!
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Quote of the Day
Posted in Economics, Quote of the Day, tagged capitalism, communism, John Kenneth Galbraith on September 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
“Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it’s just the opposite.” – John Kenneth Galbraith
The Economy
Posted in Economics, Politics, tagged bail out, democrats, economy, harangue, heart, Henry Paulson, pelosi, republicans, series of tubes, stock market, treasury department, Washington on September 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
The economy is like a heart. Blood has to pump through it, in this case, money and assets. Sometimes capital loses its value and gets stuck in the system. These “toxic assets” are like cholesterol. They stick to the wall and prevent other things from getting through, causing a “blockage.” Sadly, the economy isn’t some [...]
Curses, foiled again!
Posted in Culture, Uncategorized, tagged ben & jerry's, cows, evil, human breast milk, ice cream, PETA on September 29, 2008 | 7 Comments »
PETA has done it again! Their suggestion to use human breast milk instead of cow milk has inadvertently downplayed one of my master plans! How could THIS be a part of my plan you ask? Well, my intent was to convince several large dairy companies that human breast milk was better and more feasible then using cows. [...]
Quote of the Day
Posted in Quote of the Day on September 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The riddles of God are more satisfying than the solutions of man.-G.K. Chesterton
Faith, Academia
Posted in Theology on September 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The following is a post I was asked to write up on a webforum for a Gospels class I’m enrolled in. Once again, I hope they don’t mind I’m posting it here. The subject was on how one reconciles faith and academic inquiry, and how they would reassure someone who has issues with it, or [...]
