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Hillary Clinton takes on GTA San Andreas

by Chris   ⋅   July 18, 2005   ⋅   Comment [1]

If you don’t want kids to encounter any sort of objectionable material you’d have to home school them, prevent them from using the internet, prevent them from interacting with other kids, and prevent them from viewing the nighttime news, which, incidentally, also happens to be the number one place for viewing of ads for Cialis and Levitra.

Sesame Street is Saved!

by Kris   ⋅   June 24, 2005   ⋅   Comment now

People can make a difference.
In an unexpected move yesterday afternoon, the House of Representatives approved a measure to restore $100 million of funding for NPR, PBS and local public stations.1 Republican leaders were proposing to slash $200 million from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, but you helped stop them.
Everyone said it was impossible to reverse [...]

Sign the petition to save NPR & PBS!

by Chris & Kris   ⋅   June 22, 2005   ⋅   Comments [4]

I was watching the MacNeil Lehrer news hour last night and learned of this attempt by the right to cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, due to it being an “unchecked liberal playground”. How is it a playground for the liberal viewpoint? The republican stooge featured on the program kept citing NOW with [...]

In China, Cigarettes are GOOD for You

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   June 18, 2005   ⋅   Comments [25]

Cigarettes, according to China’s tobacco authorities, are an excellent way to prevent ulcers. They also reduce the risk of Parkinson’s disease, relieve schizophrenia, boost your brain cells, speed up your thinking, improve your reactions and increase your working efficiency. READ MORE »

S.W.A.T. he-said-she-said movie review / dreamlogic.net’s Infamous “GAY” Pictorial!

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   June 17, 2005   ⋅   Comments [3]

“ALRIGHT, LET’S PUT THIS FROG IN THE BIRD!”
Starring Colin Farrell, Michelle Rodriguez, Samuel L Jackson, Ladies Love Cool James, Jeremy Renner (aka Tobey Maguire)
HE-SAID:
I must say, this has been the week of surprises. After seeing the trailer for SWAT, which proudly proclaimed it was from the producers of XXX and The Fast and the Furious [...]

Don’t let the govt give the boot to analog without promising to upgrade your set to receive digital signals!

by Chris and Kris   ⋅   June 16, 2005   ⋅   Comment [1]

Just got this in my email. Thought it might be of interest.
You may not know it yet, but your TV could soon go dark.
Congress is getting ready to take up legislation that would set a firm date for all television signals to switch from the analog signal you receive now to an all-digital one. Yet, [...]

No Child Left Behind, as far as Military service is concerned.

by Chris   ⋅   May 13, 2005   ⋅   Comment [1]

Apparently the No Child Left Behind act has a little known clause that requires schools to give the contact information of their students to military recruitment officials. Here’s what you can do to stop it.

Fog of War (aka The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara) movie review

by Kris   ⋅   March 7, 2005   ⋅   Comments [3]

DO NOT MISS THIS ONE
For such a small word, WAR imbibes and evokes the presence of fear, destruction, and humility. But does it hold any connotations with the word humanity? Americans as a nation wholeheartedly supported and slaved for WWI, turned a deaf ear on the Korean War, then split on the controversial Vietnam [...]

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