Posts Tagged ‘News’

The Cathay Onion


2009
07.22

The Onion, America’s finest news source, has been sold to “a syndicate of industrious China-men from the deepest heart of the Orient,” according to T. Herman Zweibel.

Sample of the new fare:

Three Dozen Confirmed *@@## In Power Plant *@@##

*@@## PROVINCE—Emergency *@@## reported to the scene of a most *@@## early @## morning, pulling several *@@## bodies from the ensuing @## that erupted without *@@## or *@@##. The *@@##, believed to have been caused by a *@@##%#@, spilling *@@## among the faulty *@@##, and allowing high-grade *@@## to *@@## for miles, is the third such *@@## *@@## of *@@## in *@@##. “&%^*@@## *@@## devastating aftermath,” stated *@@## Plant Supervisor *@@##, who received orders from *@@## under the *@@## *@@## and must now accept *@@##. “*@@##*@@##.” Citizens should *@@## radiation *@@## sloughing off *@@## on the operating table.

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Plan “A”: VP of USA. Plan “B”: Talk-show host


2008
11.08
Sarah, light of my life, fire of my loins

Sarah. Light of my life, fire of my loins.

The saga of the Great Alaskan Moose-hunter gets more bizarre: Gov. Sarah Palin has graciously given a brief interview to the Liberal-Socialist-Atheist-Elitist-Pro-choice Beelzebub New York Times where she guns down McCain’s staffers,

saying that their criticism was “cruel and it’s mean-spirited, it’s immature, it’s unprofessional, and those guys are jerks.”

“Jerks?” Aww, Sarah, you betcha!

That out of the way, it’s time for her to look forward:

When Ms. Palin was asked by an entertainment reporter if she would consider becoming a talk show host, she said, “I don’t have any idea of what the next chapter of life is going to open up into, and I look forward to just the surprises that life offers.”

Or perhaps “The Foreign Policy Newshour with Sarah Palin” on PBS?

Palin Calls Critics Among McCain Aides “Jerks” (New York Times, 2008-11-07)

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Obama!


2008
11.05

Courtesy of Deroy Peraza/Hyperakt.com

As of 9:20 p.m. EST (0220 GMT the next day), the BBC projects Obama’s got 175 to McCain’s 76 electoral votes.

The New York Times‘ dashboard reports all the major news networks (NYT, AP, ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, Fox) declare Obama as the head runner.

Congratulations to Mr Barack Obama, the forty-fourth president of the United States.

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Real Dan, Fake Steve


2008
07.22

Former Forbes staffer Dan Lyons has retired his Fake Steve Jobs persona but continues to observe happenings as the Real Dan Lyons from the Newsweek tech columnist’s vantage point.

Whether the Linux Hater’s Blog is also Dan’s handiwork is shrouded in mystery but the language used within seems extremely similar.

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The Power of Nine


2007
09.28

Determined monks in Yangon, Myanmar, during demonstations on 27 September 2007
Yesterday’s (2007-09-27) protests in Myanmar highlight the power of number nine in Myanmar popular superstition:

Day: 27 = 2 + 7 = 9

Month: 9

Year: 2007 = 2 + 7 = 9

Number of reported deaths: 9

Last month a flyer circulated in Yangon calling people to disturb peace by banging pots and pans on September 11, 12, and 13 at 7:02pm (7 + 2 = 9), 8:01pm (8 + 1 = 9), and 9pm.

For comparison, in 1987 Gen. Ne Win ordered the issuing of bank notes of 45 (4 + 5 = 9) and 90 kyat.

Not to be outdone, the number eight also carries significance: nineteen years ago, the date of bloody demonstrations on 1988-08-08 is sill commonly referred to as 8/8/88.

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