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		2006 December 19, Tuesday Here's an amazing unfinished episode of Ren and Stimpy, ih which Ren tries to explain the inherent cruelty of reality to Stimpy, using the childrens' crusade as an example. Poor Stimpy... Grow your own food, and dehydrate it! 2006 December 18, Monday Youtube fun: The Day Today: Sinn Fein SNL: Apocalypto Recut Big Train: A Matter of Life and Death Big Train: School Master White Dolphin extinct after 20 million years. Woohoo! North Pole Ice Free by 2040 Europe's snow crisis A Mayan expert analyses the racism of Apocalypto. Spoiler alert: the film concludes with the Spanish "saving" the Maya from themselves. Mel just HAD to add the Catholic propaganda on the end. Remember George P. Bush? He's probably off fighting the Taliban or searching for Osama on the Pakistan/Afghan border... 2006 December 12, Tuesday Before Borat, there was Chris Morris. In 2001 he caused a stir with a brilliant lampooning of the British media hysteria about paedophilia. In the third part, you will see real British celebs and politicians make buffoons out of themselves, as they swallow his fake news reporting without question. This is not safe for work. Part 1. - Part 2. - Part 3. Here's a beautiful short film which hilights the prominent role played in the War on Terror by the many members of the Bush Dynasty. Hoo-ah. I don't know if the humor in this video will translate, but I cracked up. A tongue-firmly-in-cheek video of my beautiful home town, Arklow...one end of the "fashion triangle". Cruel stuff, me lad... 2006 December 11, Monday Oy, Brits - you're entitled to an allotment! Wot yer waitin' for - get yer wellies and start diggin!     Plastic = poison. Support the troops - unless the poor shmucks are looking for their old jobs back. 2006 December 7, Thursday Kids - if you're ever offered a pill called "yellowcake" - don't. It's a made-up drug... Bill O' Reilly (the Julius Streicher of our times), now admits the truth: it's all about the oil - and we should nuke the middle east to get it. How will we liberate them if they're all dead? I suppose we'll have to console ourselves with the fact that they'll have purple fingers. And toes. And heads. Here are a couple of mind boggling links: Somewhere a Banker Smiles ...seventy cents of every income-tax dollar goes to pay for past, present, and future wars. Education gets two cents. As Michael Parenti has pointed out, the cost of military aircraft parts and ammunition kept in storage by the Pentagon is greater than the combined federal spending on pollution control, conservation, community development, housing, occupational safety, and mass transportation all put together. And the US Navy spends more money in its never ending development of a submarine rescue vehicle than is spent for public libraries, occupational safety, and daycare centers combined. WTF? Tornado strikes London! Britain's been getting a few of these recently - thank you climate change. Don't worry though; Preznit Bush's Republifascists say it's all a left wing hoax. Steve Bell meets the Simpsons. Sweet suffering Jesus. How did I survive my Irish childhood? Lighting farts on a plane = big mistake... hang on - according to this article, it's legal to bring FOUR FUCKING BOXES OF SAFETY MATCHES ONTO THE FUCKING PLANE, (ahem), but not a bottle of water? 2006 December 6, Wednesday There's been a recent craze of re-editing movie trailers - the most famous example being the transformation of "The Shining" into a romantic comedy. Here's the opposite: Sleepless in Seattle", as a psychological thriller. A good editor can do amazing things - such as make a crowd of 200 people toppling a statue in Baghdad seem like a popular uprising... Nasa announces the discovery of liquid water on Mars, within the last few years... Lego Borg. Four mistakes the keep you poor. Global warming prevents snowfall in Alpine resort. Solution: truck in 8,000 cubic metres of snow from a mountaintop. Question: "Are humans smarter than yeast?" Of all the graphs I've seen, this is one of the scariest... 2006 December 4, Mon Attention smokers! You're sucking down Polonium! What happens when a formerly successful professional has to clean toilets? I would happily watch my children starve to death before doing this kind of work - which isn't a boast...I know that's a moral failure on my part, but hey - I needs to keep the germs away from my dainty fingers. Via cryptogon.com, a disturbing NYTIMES expose of the practice of bloggers selling out to politicians for fairly substantial sums of ca$h. This is disgusting. I have come to the conclusion that Hilary Clinton is the person to lead the U.S. in 2008. Only this wonderful lady has the international respect and gravitas to undo the damage caused by Bush. Hilary will bring a fresh insight into our economic problems, and breathe new life into fossilized institutions...KA-CHING! ME BUY NEW CAR NOW! old posts - about us - contact