Just when you think the PC-ness of corporate America is without bound, along comes this item from Mattel's 'elite Gold Label Collection' Barbie line. Never too early to start Christmas shopping. And no, that's not a clever headline. It's the doll's real name! Rent's due, Barbie.
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Please welcome to the GonzoGeek stage, everybody's favorite neocon thinktank, the Heritage Foundation. You might remember them as the folks who long pursued a land military base in Iraq and finally found a stooge (W.) willing to implement the plan for them if only they'd give him some goodies. No? Well look it up. One of their current stumps is to propound a conspiracy theory by which the US President and US Congress are actually attempting to make gasoline prices as high as possible. Before...
You guys should really be paying attention to Har Mar Superstar. The man I referred to as a "pop music god" in last week's LinkFrogging released Dark Touches, his fourth album in eight years, today. Like all of his previous records, Dark Touches hits you like a Trojan horse; you don't REALLY figure it out until you're in too deep. Har Mar Superstar is a musical version of The Aristocrats: if you focus on what's supposed to be funny, you miss the humor.&...
Complaining about the BCS is one of those go-to topics that makes college football blogging (and really, all college football coverage) tick. The annual calls for change are usually that the computers are too objective (seeing only the stats and scores, not the way teams looked on the field), and the human polls aren't objective enough (regularly prone to bias, apathy and misinformation). The USA Today Coaches' Poll in particular is a lightning rod for controversy. Opponent...