Archive for the 'Politics' Category

I just saw Al Gore on ABC's World News Now talking about his new OMGSCARYumentary, An Inconvenient Truth, with an interviewer (heck if I remember the guy's name). The interviewer would ask (and this is my honest effort at representing him correctly, but will inevitably be a paraphrase due to my having seen this [...]


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The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case on punitive damages. The case in question is against Phillip Morris, where their punitive damages were influenced in their Oregon case by the masses of Oregonians EVIL PHILLIP MORRIS has injured that WEREN'T INVOLVED IN THE CASE.
This is entirely unacceptable for a judge to do. [...]


So this girl neighbor of mine was over here hanging out with me and another buddy, and I referred to something as 'gay' in a pejorative sense (i.e. "Jimmy's gay"). She of course put up the typical "nothing inherently wrong with homosexuality" argument that I swear 90% of college kids will put up in [...]


Hippies

06Mar06

So myself, Oliver, and Bill were in Dallas/Ft. Worth terminal, just sitting down to recharge the laptops for the next leg of our flight, and this 45-ish year old hippie sits down by Bill. She socializes as well as she knows how, which is to launch into a conversation with 'Would you still be [...]