American troops helped win the heart and minds of the Arab workd with their humanitarian work in Abu Ghraib. We were greeted with flowers. We rewarded the Iraqis by imprisoning them and strictly observing the Geneva Convention. Not.
I haven’t seen flash sites better than Modern Living. Period. This is the domination of all others.
What the hell is this guy doing? Nate, Kaori, help me out here. Kikko Man is a totally confusing about a guy whith a fish head who rides a fish motorcycle and pours soy sauce on people. He causes a cat to commit suicide (or does he murder it) and beds Sailor Moon.
Caligula was Rome’s beloved Ceasar, benevolent and wise in his long reign over the empire. I watched the historical epic film about Caligula’s rise to power. It was an excellent family flick, but I found it somewhat bland and wish it would’ve left less to the imagination. Nonetheless, I think it is a good way to show the kids what life was like in ancient Rome before violence and and sexual perversion took over our culture.
I think Taco Bell (4933 Se Powell Blvd
PORTLAND, OR 97206 - 3048) may have given me Cholera via the 7 layer burrito I ate last night. I ate it at around 8 PM last night, and by 11 PM I had a headache (a warning sign of dehydration, which is a key symptom of Cholera) and I awoke at around 4 AM with severe abdominal discomfort. I went to the bathroom, where [horrible details omitted]. I’m still noticing headache symptoms and still experienceing abdominal discomfort. I should’ve never crossed the border into Taco Hell.
Mom and Dad, I know you don’t have the means to retire wealthy in the United States, but you might consider retiring in Panama, where a pensionado visa is relatively easy to obtain (a minimum of $500 guranteed income per month). As a pensionado, you’ll get:
I’d do it right now if I could. Indeed, now that Noriega is out the country is turning into the Switzerland of Latin America.
My Life as Ralph Nader’s Flunkie is a great account of life working for the man who couldn’t organize 1,000 people in Portland last month. I was ambivalent about Nader (although UO’s OSPIRG was very annoying), but this article drives the point home: Nader is insane.
Perhaps Nader’s greatest hypocrisy, though, is his brutal anti-union actions. Publicly, Nader declares support for organized labor, pronouncing on his campaign website that “the notorious Taft-Hartley Act that makes it extremely difficult for employees to organize unions needs to be repealed.” But he viciously busted attempts of his own employees to unionize.
“The day after we filed for recognition, the locks were changed. I was fired. A few days later, the other people were fired,” recalls Tim Shorrock, who edited the Multinational Monitor, a Nader magazine, in the 1980s. “They went after me in an incredibly vicious way. When they fired me, they asked me for all my boxes back,” including ones Shorrock had brought with him to the job and considered his personal property. Nader tried to have local police arrest Shorrock and sued him, a case later dropped. “It was pure harassment,” Shorrock says – the same type of high-handed pressure Nader condemns in government and business.
Somebody really hates Starbucks. I personally can’t find an honest reason to dislike the ever-growing coffee shop chain. It’s not like the anti-competitive Wal-Mart, which undercuts the competition to run them out of business and gives bad benefits to their employees; Starbucks charges a premium and does little damage to their competition. Hating Starbucks is pure snobbery. C’est la vie.
For some strange reason I find it hilarious that AT&T Wireless got hosed by jumping head-first into Siebel CRM. Testing bleeding-edge beta software on your employees and customers is flat-out stupid.
I found a good reference for whitewater kayaking and canoeing which has some very useful links. Check it out, kids. Boof.com is another good find.
