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The Power of Christ Compels You

By Wahl, on December 6, 2009, at 1:51 pm | Comments are closed

Yesterday, I offered up some political bashing. Today, I go after religion.

They make a compelling argument…

From Clusterflock.org.

Poor Michelle

By Wahl, on November 25, 2009, at 8:05 am | Comments are closed

I usually praise Google and all the cool stuff they offer. But they’ve got a little PR trouble on their hands this week.

If you perform a Google Image search for ‘Michelle Obama’, this is what your results will look like:

How does a blatantly racist pic like that become the number one [...]

It’s Not Polite to Stare

By Wahl, on November 8, 2009, at 8:58 pm | Comments are closed

The Good: I’ve had ‘Frost/Nixon’ on DVD from Netflix for about a month, but never got around to watching it because it sounded like a cool idea when I ordered it, but once I got it in the mail, I wasn’t really interested in watching it. I was tired last night, so I threw [...]

Communications 101

By Wahl, on October 28, 2009, at 11:57 am | Comments are closed

Three of my favorite types of communication are 1) sarcasm, 2) rhetorical pauses, and 3) passive aggressivism.

That’s why I’d like to thank Sweisen Scoat the G.O.A.T. for bringing this passive aggressive note from Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California Assembly.

Arnold’s camp is just saying that it is a ‘coincidence’, but I’m not [...]

Loopy

By Wahl, on October 15, 2009, at 8:34 am | Comments are closed

A few days ago, I commented about the adverse feedback loop in our economy and how that might severely retard a recovery effort in the short- to mid-term. Today, we got an updated reading on one of the largest components of that loop, home foreclosures.

The number of households caught up in the foreclosure [...]

Grand Attempt at Diversity

By Wahl, on October 14, 2009, at 3:06 pm | Comments are closed

When someone mentions the GOP, what’s the first thing you think of? For me, it’s old conservative white guys that are completely out of touch with anyone under the age of the 30.

I might be over-exaggerating a tad, but they obviously have an image problem. To help remedy the problem, [...]

Unscrambling Socialists

By Wahl, on October 13, 2009, at 7:05 am | Comments are closed

The last Mental Floss logic puzzle was pretty easy. Here’s the question. Here’s the solution.

Today’s Brain Game is a tad more difficult. It requires not only brain power but a healthy dose of European geography bee skills as well. I haven’t had my coffee yet this morning, so it took me a while [...]

There’s Crying In Politics

By Wahl, on October 9, 2009, at 1:49 pm | One comment - (Comments are closed)

It had been a good week for Republicans in the public perception game.

Obama flew to Europe to try and win Chicago their bid for the 2016 Olympics. That failed. Then SNL ripped him with a cold open that demonstrated that he has accomplished nothing of importance since taking office. Honeymoon over. [...]

True TV

By Wahl, on October 4, 2009, at 9:27 pm | Comments are closed

The cold open from this weekend’s SNL is a pretty funny/sad/true Obama address:

They’re right. He hasn’t accomplished much of anything, especially considering he has a majority in both houses.

In Your Box

By Wahl, on October 2, 2009, at 6:49 am | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)

Probably the quickest way to learn about someone is to check out their email inbox. Someone out there put together a funny spoof of what they imagine Ahmadinejad’s gmail inbox would look like. The authors of this thing managed to touch on every little popular corner of the internet, including a little gChat conversation [...]