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Porn on Facebook

Posted by Andy on May 26th, 2007

“Girls Gone Wild” banner ads have started appearing on Facebook. I’m not complaining about the boobs (heck, I ran in a charity race last week to raise money to save the boobs from cancer), but I do have a problem with GGW being promoted while the founder, Joe Francis, serves time in prison for contempt […]

Australians are dumb

Posted by Andy on November 23rd, 2006

Satire: The use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices.

This week I enjoyed reading Jack Marx’s piece on Ian Thorpe’s retirement, titled Dirty Pool, in which he talked about stripping Thorpie of his Australian citizenship. What I found so amusing was not the tongue-in-cheek nature of the article (I’m not a huge […]

What’s hot and What’s not - World Leaders

Posted by Andy on September 21st, 2006

The United States is quickly discovering that it’s “Axis of Evil” is actually more of a polygon, quite possibly a dodecagon, or a dodecahedron if you prefer to measure your evil nations in 3-Dimensions. The United Nations is slowly being taken over by voices that are rallying against the U.S., and we were treated to […]