Read the daily WTF all the time for the excellent examples of oddball code, and every once in a while there is something completely different like this article by Alex Papadimoulis. It’s a little something he’s called “employment 2.0“, rather aptly named methinks.
The hilarious comedian, Margaret Cho, is on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos to discuss her vagina, her career, and her newest stand up tour, ‘Beautiful.’ Six minutes in GS asks about the wealth of political comedy material available right now, and like a couple of my brothers visiting from the states last year they felt embarrassed about how things are turning out, “…it’s so bad, just too awful, it’s embarrassing and not even funny anymore…”, reminiscent of Jon Stewart on Crossfire a few years ago.
Rest of the interview is pretty darn funny though, classic Cho introspection.
They are really banging the drum hard down south to have another war on tap, this time with Iran. All the same half truths and lies are being trotted out and like the Iraq lies about Nigerian yellowcake for example, easy enough to discredit in time. Some of them don’t need discrediting as with Iraq, for instance the false claim that the training bomb run by Israel last September into Syria was to actually blow up a nuclear reactor that was making bomb material. Like the article quoting the Syrian President Bashar says, it is ridiculous for anyone remotely familiar with nuclear plants that it would be built miles away from the water source needed to keep things cool, such as the Hanford reactor and others are.
This sort of thing is eaten up by the North American media as god’s given fact, and hi hi ho, it’s off to war we go, again.
Americans on the west coast are being questioned Gulag style, herded off the ferries into a waiting holding corral for questioning before being allowed to continue their journey in their own country.
Phil is on his insider’s visit to CERN, very interesting stuff if you are into quantum physics at all. And a day or two later, Scobleizer has some video to go with it.
