Borat – The sound of throwing up

Imagine the sound of someone vomiting: “Borat!” “Borat!” After hearing the hype I rented the movie from Netflix. Although there were some laughs in the beginning, the movie became increasingly disgusting, until I reached the point of ejecting the movie sometime after the “do you clean my anus?” dinner party. Amazingly Rottentomatoes.com gave this movie […]

The RIAA Casts Gloomy Web

The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) has announced its decision on Internet radio royalty rates. Bottom line – Webcasters will now have to pay $500 per station annually, and about 1.28 cents per listener hour, retroactively to the beginning of 2006. For Live365.com, a service that allows individuals to legally run small Internet radio stations, the […]

Free Speech in Russia – Please!

“Now that we’ve killed off all the journalists we didn’t like, we’re now good to go with that whole free speech thing.” (author embellishment) “Ivan Safronov, the military affairs writer for Kommersant, died Friday after falling from a fifth-story window in the stairwell of his apartment building in Moscow, officials said…” The New York-based Committee […]

Who’s the idiot now?

After a co-worker quipped to Ed O’Neill that “some idiot” hadn’t claimed an $800,000 Powerball winning ticket, Mr. O’neill chuckled, and then after further investigation realized the winning ticket was purchased where he bought his, so he checked the numbers and realized that he was that idiot. O’Neill will now be an idiot whose mortgage […]

Rocky Based in Truth

From the “in case you didn’t know” department, the original story of Rocky was inspired by Chuck Wepner, a tough ex-marine who challenged Muhammad Ali for the heavyweight title in 1975, and in a losing effort became the only opponent to knock Ali down during his championship years. “When a young, impressionable and unknown Philadelphia […]

Hillary Staying Positive

After David Geffen raised millions for Obama and not Hillary, and called her a smooth liar, she shot back: “I want to run a very positive campaign, and I sure don’t want Democrats or the supporters of Democrats to be engaging in the politics of personal destruction.” Hillary only wants to slander and personally destroy […]

Muslim Blogging – Please Be Nice!

Abdel Kareem Nabil is a 22-year-old a blogger who was convicted of insulting Islam with his blog, and sentenced to 4 years in prison. Nabil (known as Kareem Amer online) referred to Egypt’s Al-Azhar University in his blog as “the university of terrorism” and accused it of suppressing free thought. Honestly, the Egyptian government doesn’t […]

The Capo Incident

OK – Guys. Wow. This is a musician thang but, visit this site and listen to what is commonly known as a TRAIN WRECK. It sounds way worse than it is. The only problem here is that the guitarist moved his capo to the wrong fret… which puts his guitar and voice in a different […]