tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31844892009-07-30T12:53:59.297-07:00News for people who are tired of being spoon-fed assembly-line false factoids by blow-dried media buffoons.Adminnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1327125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-32673109132833784782009-07-30T12:50:00.000-07:002009-07-30T12:53:59.311-07:00

God, don't you just hate it when the Nation goes on and on and on and ON and on? Nation! I have heard all your stories a million times already! Fucked Concept: Silence is goldenSeverity: Pierced eardrums

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-68933285669182455832009-07-17T11:45:00.000-07:002009-07-17T11:59:12.817-07:00

The Axis of Evil has emerged, and it's the private health insurer model hooked up with the nefarious Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. What's the connection? If you watch CNN you may have noticed a commercial in heavy rotation in which a querulous woman narrator voices her indignation with the idea of "putting a government bureaucrat" in between you and your doctor (displacing the health insurance bureaucrat

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-22746783175628590902009-07-11T19:15:00.001-07:002009-07-11T19:24:14.695-07:00

According to the New York Times, Dick Cheney was behind the CIA's concealment of a program which is so secret that it's actually been in the news for a week without anyone actually revealing what it is. That can only mean that this is the evilest program ever, so evil that no one actually wants to be the one to spill it. Weaponized smallpox? Poxized smallweapons? Interballistic Godzilla? Depleted

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-10749637687930583902009-07-01T12:41:00.001-07:002009-07-01T12:46:26.262-07:00

The New York Times can't tell you why people using Chantix are at greater risk of suicide, but luckily, you have me. Chantix is an anti-smoking drug that is supposed to 1) kill the craving for nicotine and 2) block nicotine from having any effect on the brain. Here's my experience with Chantix -- it blocked the nicotine but didn't kill the craving. So when I caved in and, like a beaten dog, went

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I admit -- it's a quandary. A dilemma. A Catch-22, if you will. What do you do when one of your employees is kidnapped and you think it's safer if no one knows and you happen to be a newspaper? You hold back the story. Interesting choice, and one wonders exactly where and how outsiders are accorded similar considerations. But if you're the New York Times, you go just a little further -- you seek

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-65391886363445697322009-06-27T12:50:00.000-07:002009-06-27T12:57:10.392-07:00

I just cracked open a DVD box set. It was wrapped in a cardboard sleeve which was wrapped around a cardboard case with the EXACT SAME PICTURE ON IT. The outer sleeve is indistinguishable from the inner package. Why do trees die for this? There is NO value to the sleeve at all -- not even the crass faux luxury of wearing fur or the crass faux social status of driving a hummer. It's gratuitously

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-66307518535603089222009-06-26T09:33:00.000-07:002009-06-26T09:40:36.252-07:00

No, really! According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, this was the topic (or soup) du jour recently on the jihadist Internet forums. According to MEMRI:On June 13, 2009, a member of the Al-Falluja forum who uses the moniker "Al-Maqdisi's Student" wrote a post based on this passage [in full report] titled "Is it permitted to eat the flesh of American soldiers? A quote from the

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-971037055917280322009-06-26T04:38:00.000-07:002009-06-26T04:52:04.780-07:00

After spending all evening tearfully lionizing Michael Jackson in the most excessive and glowing terms, CNN this morning seems to have suddenly remembered he was a freak who liked to dangle children out of windows when he wasn't liquoring them up for sleepovers where there wasn't a lot of sleeping going on, wink, wink, know what I mean. This is small consolation to the family of Farrah Fawcett,

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-54106519071936922472009-06-25T18:40:00.000-07:002009-06-25T18:54:40.933-07:00

This from a Reuters story on Mark Sanford:A string of Democratic and Republican politicians have seen their careers ruined in recent years by marital indiscretions, which are viewed harshly in the United States, a country that demands high standards of personal morality from its public officials.Present presidency excepted, between 42 and 43 alone, we had drunk-driving, extra-marital-cock-sucking

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-74571869176602216362009-06-25T18:19:00.000-07:002009-06-25T18:37:00.884-07:00

ITEM: Michael Jackson, child star turned international superstar, The King of Pop, dead of apparent cardiac arrest. His stunning successes of the 1980's gave way to seclusion, allegations of bizarre sex with underage acolytes and plastic surgery disasters.FUCKED CONCEPT: King of Pop...cardiac arrest...Hmmmm...King of Poppers?SEVERITY: 20... 10 out of 10 for MJ, plus another 10 for "the man in the

Jack-Ohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09398689554871693356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-86082555592196927582009-06-25T18:06:00.000-07:002009-06-25T18:14:14.011-07:00

I am not sure exactly what it was. A little bit of Mark Sanford. A lot of Michael Jackson. The endless commercials telling me how impersonal government is going to ruin my oh-so-huggable insurance company. Yaz. Definitely, those Yaz commercials had something to do with it. The fucked world needs Fuckedworld.com. Now, more than ever.Fucked Concept: Fuckedworld.comSeverity: Unfucked

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-1113497888499542182005-04-14T09:42:00.000-07:002005-05-07T17:27:38.540-07:00

I was profoundly irked by a new study (http://www.cnn.com/2005/HEALTH/conditions/04/14/health.ejaculation.reut/index.html">link) regarding the "disorder" of premature ejaculation, which apparently "afflicts" 20-30% of American males, destroying their peace of mind and depriving them of happy, health sex lives. While I am sure some small percentage of those males have some sort of medical

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/meast/04/12/iraq.main/index.html">Rumsfeld today on the future of the Iraq occupation: "We don't really have an exit strategy. We have a victory strategy."How many things can you find wrong with this statement? (Hint: At least three.)

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-1112624348000329052005-04-04T07:03:00.000-07:002009-06-25T17:37:12.987-07:00

It sounds so innocuous. Who could object to a project for a new American century? It's a new century, and we live in America! What could possibly go wrong?The Project for a New American Century, aka PNAC, is a think tank founded in 1997 by arch-conservative commentator William Kristol, whose illustrious career peak was a stint as Dan Quayle's chief of staff. Despite this, Kristol somehow rose to

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-1112475481280468192005-04-02T12:54:00.000-08:002005-04-02T13:02:17.526-08:00

Yes, finally, the pope is officially fucked. He didn't last nearly as long as Terry Schiavo. Shame on you, Pope. If you're already sick of the glowing eulogies currently choking the airwaves and webwaves, you can always check out my Rotten Library entry on the late John Paul II, which is a bit more balanced than the current slobbery mainstream media outpouring.The link should be updated

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-1111677019406132862005-03-24T07:05:00.000-08:002005-03-24T07:10:19.406-08:00

I'm reading A Coffin for Dimitrios, a mystery-thriller written by Eric Ambler in 1937. Almost 70 years ago, Ambler wrote the following words which seem to have special relevance in America today: In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest diagnostician but of the man with the best bedside manner. It is the decoration conferred on mediocrity by ignorance. Yet,

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-1111540657356444912005-03-22T17:10:00.000-08:002005-03-22T17:17:37.356-08:00

OK, this has a very limited audience, admittedly, but if you watch the NBC daytime soap opera Passions, then you may appreciate the humor in the following parody: The Passions of the Christ, a Web-based comic book/strip thing-a-ma-bob. It's just a lark, but if people like it, more Passions-based humor could probably be arranged. If you haven't seen the show, which was recently highlighted on

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-1111429246550661502005-03-21T10:11:00.000-08:002005-03-21T10:28:54.593-08:00

A commercial for "Wellbutrin," the latest unfortunately named antidepressant, features an attractive young woman making the following comment: "I think it's nice that there's a low risk of sexual side effects." The FuckedWorld Grammar Cop is obliged to note that this statement ? which airs approximately 47,215 times daily ? actually states that it is simply delightful to unnecessarily experience

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Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-1109815056447249892005-03-02T17:54:00.000-08:002005-03-08T10:41:32.280-08:00

In tribute to the demise of Enterprise, check out the Star Trek novel which never was. Five sample chapters, and I have more related material around if there's an interest. Star Trek: Orders of Magnitude

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-1109098072860507792005-02-22T10:46:00.000-08:002009-06-25T17:46:30.735-07:00

A batch of new Rotten Library articles by yours truly, submitted for your perusal. Superbugs Jesse Ventura Eric Rudolph Nick Berg Joanie Laurer Genghis Khan Islam Terrorist Videos Truck Bombs Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Pentagram Numerology Kabbalah Mandeism Pope John Paul I Pope John Paul II Port Chicago Disaster Tunguska

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-1106934673858927342005-01-28T09:49:00.000-08:002005-01-28T09:51:13.860-08:00

Perhaps this is too obvious... NEW YORK (AP) -- An aspiring actress and playwright whose work explored life's darker sides was shot and killed as she confronted an armed robber during an early-morning street holdup. The robber ran off with his accomplices, police said. No arrests have been made. Nicole duFresne, 28, had just left a bar in a trendy section of the Lower East Side with her fiance

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-1106328332402111452005-01-21T09:25:00.000-08:002005-01-21T09:25:32.403-08:00

What an asshole... The video is a remake of the 1979 hit song "We Are Family" using the voices and images of SpongeBob, Barney, Winnie the Pooh, Bob the Builder, the Rugrats and other TV cartoon characters. It was made by a foundation set up by songwriter Nile Rodgers after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, in an effort to promote healing. Christian groups however have taken exception

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-1106180228647680132005-01-19T16:17:00.000-08:002005-01-19T16:26:39.080-08:00

Forty-nine percent of 1,007 adult Americans said in phone interviews they believe Bush is a "uniter," according to the CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll released Wednesday. Another 49 percent called him a "divider," and 2 percent had no opinion. All I can say is: Bwah-hah hahah haha hahaha ha ha ha aha haha ha hahaha hahahaha ha ha ahhahh ahaha.... This just goes to show that conservatives are fucking

Adminnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3184489.post-1105908143888737812005-01-16T13:42:00.000-08:002005-01-16T12:46:25.506-08:00

Motherfuckers won't be happy until they've destroyed the entire world. Why fuck up just one country when you can fuck up all of 'em? (A)ward-winning reporter Seymour Hersh (reported) the secret missions have been going on at least since last summer with the goal of identifying target information for three dozen or more suspected sites. Hersh quotes one government consultant with close ties to

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