Cat and Girl Halloween Special

October 31, 2005 – 5:46 pm

Easy Last Minute Costume for Cynics

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Mark Davis on the SoCal Fires

October 27, 2003 – 12:00 am

Mark Davis, author of City of Quartz, on the Southern California wildfires:
Fire, as a result, is politically ironic. Right now, as I watch San Diego’s wealthiest new suburb, Scripps Ranch, in flames, I recall the Schwarzenegger fund-raising parties hosted there a few weeks ago. This was an epicenter of the recent recall and gilded voices [...]

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Next Stop: Supermodel Vacations

December 28, 2000 – 12:00 am

[ via the FoRKsters ] The escalation continues. First there was Geek Boy Services, now:
“Our mission is to pull you away from your mundane existence and transplant you into the jet-set world of upper class people and places. You will learn to wear high fashion clothes, and to dine elegantly in high society. You will [...]

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Using Photoshop to promote diversity in academia

September 20, 2000 – 12:00 am

My graduate school alma mater, The University of Wisconsin, was outed for the matter of doctoring a photo in an brochure touting ethnic diversity at UW. The publications department cut and pasted an image of an African-American student taken in 1994 into one taken of a crowd of white students at a football game in [...]

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An end to the Banana Republic of Miami

May 11, 2000 – 12:00 am

There are people other than the former friends, cronies, and retainers of the old Cuban regime in Miami. And well, they are sick of the city’s politics being run by a bunch of dictator-wannabes in waiting. Consequently, the rest of the City of Miami is looking to clean house, starting with a recall of Mayor [...]

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Columbine HS Jocks Safely Resume Bullying

September 7, 1999 – 12:00 am

“Thanks to stern new security measures, a militarized school enviornment and a massive public-relations effort designed to obscure all memory of the murderous event, members of Columbine’s popular crowd are once again safe to reassert their social dominance and resume their proud, longstanding tradition of excluding those who do not fit in.”

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The Rich Are Different (they have more money than us) [ via Robot Wisdom ]

December 30, 1998 – 12:00 am

Good argument for raising the marginal tax rates on the ultra-rich.
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