Here’s a nice photo slide show from the day Dwayne Provience was released from prison. I mentioned Provience in my crime column yesterday.
I love it when The Onion gets surreal.
White House now claiming stimulus is creating jobs in Congressional districts that don’t exist.
Chinese officials detain U.S. journalist for t-shirt Chinese feared could be offensive to U.S. president. Of course, before we get too hard on the Chinese, we should remember that we do that here, too.
Redesigning NFL team helmets. I like what they did with the Redskins’ helmet. Not so much with the Patriots.
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Of course, sometimes the Onion also gets unoriginal.
The Onion: Nazi alternate universe only slightly worse than our own thanks to stupid Stargate Universe being so stupid.
I neglected to mention the other day in the Dwayne Provience thread what a good piece that was. Nicely written, good story, great “hook”.
The Patriots helmet is way to Evel Keneivel.
Hey, without the stimulus, there would be ZERO jobs in those non-existent districts!
I like the Redskins helmet design in the link. I think they could use a more modern look.
Makes you appreciate that a lot of uni designs have come a long way. The Buc’s are far better looking compared to the creamsicle look of the 70′s and 80′s. The Denver and Detroit throwbacks are beyond terrible.
Of course you don’t like the Patriots helmet- you have never had a good word for them- what else is new?
“Of course, sometimes the Onion also gets unoriginal.”
Umm, Peedub, there have been a bunch of alternate histories written in which the Nazis won World War II (Fatherland is another one). The Onion articlue is actually way MORE original, because its an alternate history (in which the Axis lost the war) written in an alternate universe (in which the Axis won the war)
I like the new pats helmet better than the current one, but still think the OLD pats helmet is better than todays. Of course that was even more cluttered and that artist really wouldn’t like it. The old patriot seemed more hungry for a victory, while the artist is right this new guy is bland.
I can’t believe people like the redesigned Pats’ helmet. It’s atrocious. I say this as a Pats fan. If the helmet were ever redesigned to that, I’d probably spend four hours of every Sunday depressed as all hell. It’s so incredibly gaudy.
And what’s wrong with the current logo? The current logo is great!
Mathematically, I believe they exist within the domain of i.
The comparison of the Pats helmet to a “wind-swept John Kerry” sure made me wince. “I was for going on fourth before I was against it…”
@ #4 – you beat me to it. That was exactly my thought when I looked at it. I do agree with Radley though – I think the re-imagined Skins helmet looks pretty good.
I don’t like the feathers on the helmet. If the redesigned them to look like a full indian headdress, fine, but a few feathers with three lines down the middle just doesn’t look that good to me.
The Tampa Bay helmet, on the other hand, looks the best IYAM.
The Redskins helmet had the feather thing going in the early 60′s (just a “feather” stripe along the center line). The best Redskins helmet was from the mid to late 60′s when they had the spear on the helmets.
The photos of Dwaye Provience’s liberation literally left me choked up. People striving to set the innocent free are truly doing God’s work.
Why make me do my own googling?
Couple Win $80,000 For Bush T-Shirt Arrest
Posted on Monday, 20 of August , 2007 at 7:23 pm
http://www.northcountrygazette.org/news/2007/08/20/tshi... /
CHARLESTON, WV –The Bush Administration will pay a Texas couple $80,000 for their arrest on the West Virginia capitol grounds on July 4, 2004, for peacefully expressing their opposition to President Bush by messages on their T-shirts.
#8, if you read further down in the Wikipedia article, you’ll note that several of the characters in “The Man in the High Castle” read “The Grasshopper Lies Heavy”, a popular novel about an alternative history in which the Axis powers lost WWII–hence PeeDub’s point. Though I’m sure others who write alternative history stories have also used similar plot devices as well.
I don’t find it a bit surprising that government thinks it spent money and created jobs in nonexistent congressional districts. After all, this is the same government that sends me a statement that estimates how much I’ve paid into social security. And, as soon as they’ve finished taking over the banking system, I fully expect my savings and checking account statements to consist of estimates as well.
When your accounting practices are so fucked up that you no longer know what you have or what you owe, estimates and approximations (ie: guesses) are all that’s left. It’s only a matter of time before the dollar sign on your paycheck is replaced by a tilde.
[blockquote]Of course, before we get too hard on the Chinese, we should remember that we do that here, too.[/blockquote]
The Daily Propaganda Award goes to the first conserva-blogger with the headline, “Vocal Critic of ‘Police Militarization’ Admits Agent Provocateur Status”.
Jesus, the new pats helmet looks like something a retarded wonder woman would wear to a Special Olympics event.
The pats helmet is awesome!! The rest of the uniform should match it. Then it might actually be enjoyable to watch them play.
Makes you appreciate that a lot of uni designs have come a long way. The Buc’s are far better looking compared to the creamsicle look of the 70’s and 80’s.
The Bucs creamsicles are way better than the current version.
Indeed. I don’t even look at the things, because it’s depressing enough every time I’m reminded of how much they take each year. I’d really rather not be reminded of the running grand total on just one program.
I’m somewhat surprised that they don’t bother to track and report actual amounts, down to the cent, because it seems doing that would help reinforce the notion that SS is a savings program, rather than a wealth transfer program.
Although, it occurs to me that it’s entirely plausible they’re unable to keep the records straight enough to do that.
Off topic: The Pontiac Silverdome (2005 asking price around $20 Million) just sold for $583,000.
For the buyer’s sake, I hope they paid with a rubber check.
BTW, BD, I’m not sure whether to uptick your comment about the Silverdome or downtick it.
-It merits an uptick as a nice coda on the concept of the publicly funded stadium as a boon to a community.
-I want to downtick it because it is so depressing to think of all that taxpayer money wasted.
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Hell with it. You’re the messenger not the problem. Uptick it is.
maybe for the patriots they could a reference to Gitmo. maybe have a guy being attacked by guard dogs while two US navy guards stand on either side
Cops are trained to lie, encouraged to do so, protected by Supreme Court decision, etc. Nothing we didn’t know, but some need to see it IN WRITING from a cop rag in order to believe it. I firmly stand by my statement that anyone who lies for a living, is encouraged to do so, and knows they are protected from the ramifications of said lying will begin to blur the lines being lies and truth, and eventually lie more than tell the truth, due to it being something they do EVERY DAY. It’s not a light switch that can be turned on and off (which is even more scary, because that means a person is robotic and calculated).
http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/43037.html
Is anyone counting districts created or saved?
The Onion article made me wonder? Could there be a universe where Ron Paul is President? I wonder what that Universe would look like. What conditions would have to exist for that to happen.
I bet the terrorists hate them for their freedom too.
I like the Redskins helmet design as well. I’m a lifelong Redskins fan and could definitely support it. Granted I think all the stuff about the name being inherently racist in the first place is a bit nonsensical. I also don’t think the current logo is derogatory particularly as it isn’t a caricature (like, say, the Cleveland Indians mascot). “Redskin” first appears in nationalist literature and speeches written by Native Americans in the early to mid 19th Century which makes sense because it is when a lot of different groups started to see themselves as “nations” in the modern sense (see the Slavic groups which at the time were parts of the German Empire and Austria-Hungary).
When they originally came to DC in the 30′s they had been the Boston Braves but the name was changed in honor of their coach who was part Native American. It’s definitely fair to ask whether it comports with modern sensibilities however historically the word “redskin” was not the racial slur a lot of people assume it to be.
•I love it when The Onion gets surreal.
The joke being that we currently live in that alternate universe.
Our culture is VERY German.
if you read further down in the Wikipedia article, you’ll note that several of the characters in “The Man in the High Castle” read “The Grasshopper Lies Heavy”, a popular novel about an alternative history in which the Axis powers lost WWII–hence PeeDub’s point.
Actually, the real joke in that Dick work is that the history described in “The Grasshopper Lies Heavy” is the “real” one, and the history experienced by the characters is fake. [This is revealed by the I Ching oracle to the author of the work in question.]
The reason this is a joke is because that “real” history isn’t ours, but one in which Churchill leads Britain back to world domination and betrays the US after the war. And so we, the readers, are also living in a “fake” history.
All of this being Dick’s twisted way of arguing that history itself is not real. Or something.
… or possibly that speculating on what might have happened is pointless. You can never know, and the little things on which momentous events turn are innumerable. You can only know what did happen, if even that much.
I always thought the Patriots logo you described as John Kerry, looks like he is wearing a bike racer’s streamlined bicycle helmet.
So let me get this straight.
The Chinese government
arrests a guy
for wearing a T-shirt
comparing Obama to Mao
because
this is an insult to Obama.
Should the secret police arrest the police that arrested the guy?
So confused.
My friend went to be considered for Jury Duty.
They asked if he ever had a bad experience with police.
He said yes, truthfully.
He was disqualified as a juror.
Nuff said.
Umm, who hasn’t had a bad experience with police?
Where are the ever to find any jurors?
That’s the whole point.
Only badgelickers and hermits and PTA types are on the
juries these days, with screenings like these.