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October 21, 2011: The really real end of the world

Thu, 20 Oct 2011 06:35:12 +0000

or so this I received about 75 days ago would have us believe:

Man, those Occupy Wall Street people just keep getting bad news.

Chavez doesn’t have cancer; he got a liposuction. EDIT: NEW DETAILS.

Sun, 31 Jul 2011 18:39:28 +0000

My father told me that he believes the whole Hugo Chavez “cancer” thing is actually false and meant to bring him support for the upcoming elections. (Chavez is polling at about 50%, the opposition seems united and willing to present a single candidate, Chavez is currently ruling mostly by decree, and he recently said he doesn’t have a single cancerous cell in his body, among other things.). Fidel Castro is “the ultimate mastermind” capable of fomenting this plan to save the billions Cuba gets from Venezuela in subsidies, cheap oil, direct “loans,” etc. The only reason Chavez has lost weight is because of a liposuction.

When I asked my dad about the comments Chavez gave that he will probably begin to lose his hair as a result of the chemotherapy, my dad replied, “He’ll just shave it off.”

I am putting this out there so it will be time stamped. If this is ever proven true, I am expecting my dad to get a column in the New York Times adjacent to Paul Krugman’s musings.

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UPDATE:

Thanksgiving Dinner conversation:

Me: ”So, do you still think Chavez’s cancer is fake?”

Him: …

Me: …

Him: No.

Case closed.

When you don’t know how to handle money

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 20:44:52 +0000

…it doesn’t matter how much you have.

Case in point: Almost 80% of NFL players near bankruptcy two years after they retire.

Laws_of_Armed_Conflict.PPT

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:44:45 +0000

The pair of war crime prosecutors who indicted Charles Taylor back in 2003 have created a new firm, CW Group, that offered legal services to Guinea’s military regime. They made a 14-slide PowerPoint presentation, apparently aimed at educating the military’s officers and soldiers about the laws governing warfare (and maybe even get them to not violate them so egregiously?) [FP]

I guess if you’re going to have a military, you should teach your soldiers about the rules of war, somehow… But PowerPoint? Really?

One imagines that in the original .ppt version, these bullet points (pun intended?) “Civilians!” “Medical personnel!” and “Prisoners!” would fly in from the right side of the slide, with that car-zooming-and-screeching-to-halt sound effect.

Perhaps the excessive use of PowerPoint is the real war crime here…

The 2010 speakers

Thu, 18 Feb 2010 10:13:07 +0000

Commencement: Former Justice David Souter.

Class Day: CNN’s Christiane Amanpour. (General feeling in our circles: “Several seniors expressed ambivalence about the choice—a sentiment that may stem from a lack of recognition of Amanpour’s name among some individuals.” Let’s hope her speech is a good one.)

R.I.P. Chris Brown’s Twitter account, killer named and at large

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:18:36 +0000

CNN writes the obituary. Let us remember the short but great life of Chris Brown’s Twitter, mechanicaldummy:

Brown began using Twitter as a way to connect to his fans after he pleaded guilty and was sentenced for beating his then-girlfriend Rihanna.

Whether it was an attempt to garner favorable public relations in the wake of an image-shattering event or just a late adaptation to the microblogging craze, Brown had spent the months after the incident using his Twitter account to reach and connect with 172,366 followers.

He tweeted regularly thanking his fans for their continued support and sounding off after concerts.

It was unclear what specifically sparked Brown to delete his account, named “mechanicaldummy,” He had started the day with a normal “good morning” message to his fans.

12/14/09. NEVER FORGET.

Now they need to go back to more Tiger Woods coverage.