February 14, 2005 - 1:38am
I don't believe this. I've actually found a picture of someone fiddling with President Bush's fly. However, for me, its "Mr. Small Personal Bubble's" red face that makes this photo a truly magnificent addition to my collection. One does wonder why he appears to be so happy... Perhaps he's next in line?
February 13, 2005 - 11:31pm
"We love beauty without extravagance, and wisdom without weakness of
will. Wealth we regard not as a means for private display but rather
for public service; and poverty we consider no disgrace, although we
think it is a disgrace not to try to overcome it. We believe a man
should be conerned about public as well as private affairs, for we
regard the person who takes no part in politics not as merely
uninterested but as useless." -From Funeral Oration, King Pericles (495-427 b.c.e)
February 13, 2005 - 10:32pm
The repercussions of Kittengate have offically gone international. Another whistleblower,
who calls himself "Kaiser", has
just come forward. Just minutes ago, he accused Ms. Mackinnon
of representing our blessed nation at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland
with her kitten-eating ways:
It's true and I have proof. I'm prepared to testify that I was put in
charge of MacKinnon's kitten cuisine detail at Davos, and must have
flayed, fileted and fricasseed four or five frisky felines at her
behest between session summary writing assignments at the World
Economic Forum's Annual Meeting. They ain't easy to come by in Alpine
ski resorts, let me tell you. I knew MacKinnon in Beijing for years,
where her predilection for kitten-eating had her taking regular trips
to Guangdong Province and hastened her dismissal from CNN. Yeah, she's
a kitten-eating cyborg alright.
My readers can rest assured that you will be updated as soon as I get more
information. In a related and bizarre twist, Ms. Mackinnon
has willfully submitted photographic evidence of multiple Berkmanites
feasting upon the bodies of dead kittens! I'm beginning to think that this
might be some sort of bizarre psycho-thriller plot that echos Crime and
Punishment? Does she want to face the consequences? Anyhow, seen in the
photo is John Palfrey
(what a turn coat!), Ethan
Zuckerman (I should have known... your blog might be in Cambridge,
but your soul resides in the bloody darkness of eviscerated kittens!), Zephyr Teachout (who needs a
new blog, btw. Regardless of her kitten eating habits, I'd build a host a free
civicspace blog for her if she wanted it), and David Weinberger (well...
actually... Weinberger wasn't exactly a shock).
Also, I've challenged O'Reilly to defend his unfair accusations on his
show... and he has accepted my challenge. Wish me luck. I will post the
transcript as soon as it becomes available.
February 13, 2005 - 1:40pm
Bill O’ Reilly: Bias, propaganda, and the kitten eating, anti-American, Jesus haters of the radical-left: that is the subject of this evening’s talking points memo.
Over the past 48 hours, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society has once again come under fire for providing asylum to numerous anti-American kitten eaters. As usual, the mainstream left-wing media, including CNN and the New York Times, are refusing to cover the scandal. However, unlike the liberal media, Talking Points believes that all Americans have a right to know what really happened behind the blood stained closed doors of the Berkman Center.
February 13, 2005 - 12:19pm
February 13, 2005 - 2:45am
February 12, 2005 - 11:50pm
"The bureaucracy is a circle from which one cannot
escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge. The top entrusts the
understanding of detail to the lower levels, whilst the lower levels
credit the top with understanding of the general, and so all are
mutually deceived." - Karl Marx
February 12, 2005 - 9:12pm
February 12, 2005 - 6:51pm
By John Cleese
To the citizens of the United States of America,
In the light of your failure to elect a competent President of the
USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.
Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchical
duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories. (Except
Utah, which she does not fancy.)
Your new prime minister (The Right Honourable Tony Blair, MP for the
97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world
outside your borders) will appoint a minister for America without the
need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded.
A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any
of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency,
the following rules are introduced with immediate effect :
1. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary.
Then look up "aluminium". Check the pronunciation guide. You will be
amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. The letter 'U'
will be reinstated in words such as 'favour' and 'neighbour', skipping
the letter 'U' is nothing more than laziness on your part. Likewise,
you will learn to spell 'doughnut' without skipping half the letters.
You will end your love affair with the letter 'Z' (pronounced 'zed' not
'zee') and the suffix "ize" will be replaced by the suffix "ise". You
will learn that the suffix 'burgh is pronounced 'burra' e.g. Edinburgh.
You are welcome to respell Pittsburgh as 'Pittsberg' if you can't cope
with correct pronunciation. Generally, you should raise your vocabulary
to acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary". Using the same twenty seven
words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is
an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. Look up
"interspersed". There will be no more 'bleeps' in the Jerry Springer
show. If you're not old enough to cope with bad language then you
shouldn't have chat shows. When you learn to develop your vocabulary
then you won't have to use bad language as often.
February 12, 2005 - 1:28pm
Today, I renamed a month old post that jokingly accused Rebecca Mackinnon of kitten eating. While I was checking referred logs today, I suddenly realized that the satirical post, titled "Rebecca
Mackinnon: Kitten Eater (and she's rumored to hate both America and Jesus, too.
She's also a rapper.)", was in fact appearing near the top of any google search for "Rebecca Mackinnon". Rebecca never mentioned the post to me, and I think she would have thought it was funny. Nevertheless,
it just seemed wrong to allow "hates America
and Jesus" to appear at the top of the search -- regardless of the fact that it is
an obvious joke (apparently, there is a large segment of the population that
doesn’t understand the concept of joking). Rebecca is a woman of robust moral fiber, and doesn't hate America or Jesus (though the jury is still out on the kitten eating though).
Then again, I may have just had too
much coffee today... The new headline is "Anonymous Whistleblower Accuses Berkman Fellows of Ceremonially Feasting Upon Live Kittens"
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