Fellowship 9/11

Michael Moore's searing examination of the Aragorn administration's actions in the wake of the tragic events at Helms Deep. With his characteristic humor and dogged commitment to uncovering - or if necessary fabricating - the facts, Moore considers the reign of the son of Arathorn and where it has led us.

IFILM - Short Films: Fellowship 9/11

This is pretty damn funny. Check it out.

black market ebay

Why isn't there an overseas black market ebay yet?

Or do I just not know about it?

Imagine, a place where minors could buy alcohol, where people could ship cigarettes and guns person to person, without business licenses or governments to track them. It's too much commerce to regulate, and the feds would never be able to inspect every package coming to the US from Joe Schmoe in Indonesia.

There would be a huge market for an auction site that had traffic in everything that ebay refused to carry. You'd think some budding entrepreneur would have grabbed this bull by the horns already.

there's something deeply and truly wrong with this world

what lawyers have done to this country

I just bought a small fountain for my desk at work. Because I'm a nerd, I started leafing through the six page manual that came with it.

Before lawyers got their hands on people, you wouldn't need an instruction manual with a fountain. Almost the entire booklet is covering their ass from some of the most stupid concerns I've ever seen.

Here are some excerpts from the booklet:

"Do not reach for an appliance that has fallen into water. Unplug it immediately."

"Do not pump flammable liquids through the water pump"

(I'd love to see the lawsuit that caused that clause!)

"Close supervision is necessary when this appliance is used by or near children, invalids, or disabled persons."

(Yeah, I think Christopher Reeve was actually killed by a small tabletop fountain)

"Never drop or insert any object into any opening unless otherwise instructed in this instruction manual."

"Do not operate where oxygen is being administered."

(What?)

"If you have any concerns regarding your health, consult your doctor before using this product."

WHAT? It's a goddamn table top fountain! It's like three inches high and spits a tiny bit of water into a pool.

What are you going to ask your doctor? Will the sound of flowing water possibly hurt me, doctor? Can I sue them if it does? Oh dammit, they covered that in their manual! Curses! My devious plot is spoiled!

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You rule, Christy!

when even your own wackos hate you...

Activist Holds Anti-Nader Hunger Strike

"A peace activist who once fasted for 63 days to protest movie violence and war toys is launching another hunger strike to persuade Ralph Nader to abandon his presidential bid. "

and we're one step closer to star trek

Imagine carrying a device around that could speak 20 languages, and translate them to english, on the fly.

Here's a good first step:

Device translates spoken Japanese and English

trio

Strangely enough, I just got a Trio 600 phone, and I just discovered a cool new TV station called Trio.

I've only watched a few shows on it, but so far they're all winners.

My favorite right now is one I just watched called American Mullet, where they went around the US, and interviewed anyone they could find that had a mullet, and asked them about their life and why they wear it. It was totally fascinating, everyone from lesbians, to australian bikers, to little kids.

They're showing a program called Gay Republicans on Election Night. That's just hilarious.

fierce, terrifying gays

I keep hearing these criticisms of Queer Eye for the Straight Guy and Will and Grace as having portrayals of "nonthreatening" gays. What do you want, threatening, scary gays on television?

I'm being facetious of course, I understand what they want, an honesty about the lifestyle, gays who aren't limp-wristed tarts who only care about clothes and scream like girls. But come on. Look at the rest of network television.

Do you remember anyone holding any sort of political opinion on Friends? Was Seinfeld really pushing any barriers? Are there any threatening characters on ANY mainstream television show? If there were, it wouldn't be mainstream, because it would offend people.

Most of mainstream humor is unthreatening dreck. If it IS threatening, they cancel it (Family Guy, for example). I just don't understand why the gay community focuses on shows like Queer Eye, as if gays are somehow being singled out and oppressed. They're not, they're being included in the lukewarm, simple minded mainstream. Welcome to the club.