Cultural Subterfuge

Pseudo news gets hard hitting!The general perception of bloggers are that we are pseudo journalists. Technically we might be called journalists, since blogging is a form of journaling - we'll grab at any semblance of credibility. So many of us have a passing interest in issues related to the field, such as "does the media have any true influence?" The answer depends: if journalists are trying to grab at a semblance of credibility themselves they say that they are the opinion makers; if they...Read Full Story

So What's the Big Deal??If this is true then it will really fuck up the book makers!"Ladies & Gentleman of the Academy, tonight is when we come together in an attempt to invest enormous significance into what is essentially a non event!" Okay, enough kidding around, now onto the joke! The above purports to be a leaked list of tonight's Oscar winners "Mickey Rourke, Heath Ledger, Kate Winslet, Amy Adams, and Slumdog Millionaire". Heath Ledger seems to be a safe enough bet. People have been...Read Full Story

"So what are you doing cutting into my transmission, Oprah?" "Well I just took some time out from directing the space shuttle flight here at Main Mission Control to tell you that I know what you've been saying. I hope that doesn't rattle you. In fact I like your hustle kid!If you'll excuse me I gotta go now, there's a situation. One of my many surveillance monitors has detected that the President has been in the washroom way too long! We originally had them set up as a way to find interesting...Read Full Story

If a man takes his boat across a lake, and in the process runs into another man in another boat, they shout at each other and shake their fists. If the man notices that the boat is empty, he shrugs his shoulders and continues. So as you traverse across this life, let your boat be empty.~ Chinese proverbThough it's an honour just to be nominated, it's a shame to be involvedOscar night raises the issue of the importance of small shiny chrome statuettes. It also raises the issues of ego and...Read Full Story

On a related note Tom Brady is with the Pats so he's practically Irish, by a very loose definition of the word, since he wasn't born in Ireland or anything (unless he really was in which case I'm gonna have to start checking my facts. You can only get away with those wild broad side shots for so long before there are consequences. I hear that they eventually wired Ann Coulter's jaw shut! She's not Irish either, but still that seems a bit harsh). He is married to Gisele Bundchen, who isn't...Read Full Story

Do you believe that standardized testing is an accurate measure of intelligence? Well then it might come as some surprise to you that George W Bush's SAT scores were higher than Bill Clinton's. Clinton scored 1032, Bush the Younger scored 1206 (IQ conversion to an estimated 110 and 123 respectively).  Surprising but is there a trend? Let's see.The link between cleverness and wickedness is common knowledge (get rid of common knowledge and it's possible for the intelligent to retain their...Read Full Story

Lethal Love ConnectionIs there some strange alignment of planets that is causing people to get loopy? Perhaps it's some post Valentine's love lunacy, since sex seems to be the common theme. For instance in our first story a Chinese tycoon nearly came to grief after laying off one of his 5 mistresses. Seems that the business man had run into tough times. So he decided that one of the girls had to go. He hired a consultant from a local modeling agency to help him judge, and then invited the...Read Full Story

I won the British Lottery...see you suckers around! It seems that Homer Simpson will finally be leaving FOX TV. The popular character resigned from the long running TV series shortly after receiving the following letter in the mail.BRITISH NATIONAL LOTTERY HEADQUARTERS:28 TAN FIELD ROAD,CROYDON, LONDON.CUSTOMER SERVICERef: UK/940X2/68Dear Selected Winner,This is to inform you that you have been selected for a cash Prize of £753,437.00 in cash from the British National Lottery New Year Bonanza...Read Full Story

more more Moore - how do you like itTwit, Twitter, Twittiest!This was posted via Twitter about 15 hours ago. Now what could such words mean coming from Demi Moore?  I assume that either Oprah Winfrey has booked another motivational speaker on her merciless carousel of self help, or Dems is getting ready to turn into the Mighty Isis.Anticipating participationIncidentally the rurmous are true - Natalie Portman is out of Thor. She has hinted on her web site that she considers playing in a second...Read Full Story

By now everyone knows that the big story is the economy. Even General Motors is lining up for a corporate bailout. Perhaps they know what the Maharishi knew, that if you want to get money then you have to get it from where the money is - in GM's case they've gone from the consumer to the taxpayer. Unlike free marketers the govt has known for years that the tax payers are more reliable!Now if you're not GM, or some other kind of executive with low friends in high places, then how do you drum...Read Full Story