My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-22) →
- Johnny Cash (25)
- John Denver (18)
- John Mayer (16)
- John Williams (9)
- Dr Fox’s Old Timey String Band (4)
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Former WH Press Secretary/Fox contributor: "We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term." →
-the implication being that Bush made our country safer, while in the past year President Obama has acted swiftly to make us more vulnerable and leave us open to terrorist acts, such as the massacre at Fort Hood.
But she’s ‘not saying (that) to be political.’
Oh, and just disregard that whole ‘911’ thing, too.
Man Gets 120 Days in Jail for Shooting Cyclist in the Head - TreeHugger →
Douchebag: Hmm…look at that guy with his child on the back of his bike. I hate people safely navigating the streets with children on the back of their bicycles! I think I’ll shoot him in the head!
Judge: LOL.
This is, without a doubt, one of the the most ridiculous news stories I’ve ever seen. And no, it’s not from The Onion.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-15) →
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2009-11-8) →
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Wikipedia lists "Juan Pelota" as one of Lance Armstrong's nicknames. →
Joke about Testicular Cancer much?
(Via “Lance Armstrong - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia”)
…in terms of raw drama, the ‘Fair and Balanced’ newsmen of dystopian-future, sci fi-satirical, shouty-porn-sledgehammer Fox News win out every time. Fox generally leans more to the right than a man who’s just had his right leg blown off.
— Charlie Booker: A British View of American News Media
The United States ranks 31st in life expectancy (tied with Kuwait and Chile), according to the latest World Health Organization figures. We rank 37th in infant mortality (partly because of many premature births) and 34th in maternal mortality. A child in the United States is two-and-a-half times as likely to die by age 5 as in Singapore or Sweden, and an American woman is 11 times as likely to die in childbirth as a woman in Ireland.
— Nicholaus Kristoff, on why America’s health system is anything but the “best in the world” (“Unhealthy America” - NYTimes.com)
