They let women into medical school in iran??

clipped from www.thememriblog.org Woman Arrested For Dress Code Violation In Iran Dies In Prison Zahra Bani 'Aamari, 27, a medical student at Hamadan University, died in prison less than 48 hours after being arrested on October 12 along with her fiancé for violating the Islamic dress code. The Hamadan Judicial Ministry investigations director claimed that Bani 'Aamari's death was a suicide, but a knowledgeable ministry source expressed doubts on the matter. Bani 'Aamari's family noted that she had spoken with them by phone half an hour before being informed of her death, and that the conversation had shown that her mental state was good and that she had no signs of instability. Source: Rooz, Iran, October 18, 2007 Posted at: 2007-10-19

there's nothing at all suspicious about this.

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this makes a lot of sense...

tying a carbon tax to actual global warming levels

what choice do they have? none!
off with her head!

she ruthlessly harms others, leaving so many crippled for life. it's senseless torture... it's unconscionable. it only seems reasonable, then, that she be beheaded, right. that's how the all india ibtehad council sees it. the indian muslim group has offered a bounty for the beheading of bangladeshi author taslima nasreen. author? oh, wait. she's doing all those things with words.

read all about the price of speaking ill of certain religions here.

the hideous phantasm of a legend stretched out

i really like camille paglia. i don't always agree with her, but i find her extremely perceptive, very funny, and dead one with much of her social and political commentary. in reading her latest think piece at salon.com, she talks about "the man who wrote frankenstein," john lauritsen's book due out in may which posits that percy, not his teenage wife, mary, penned "frankenstein or the modern prometheus." the popular account of percy, mary and lord byron's ghost-story writing contest at lake geneva in 1816 is a great story, especially when considering that the contest most likely would never have been conceived were it not for the eruption of mount tembora in april of the previous year. i hate to see this fascinating origin of frankenstein debunked... it would strike a deep blow to the long history of female intimacy with the grotesque, from "beauty and the beast" to heidi klum and seal.

there are 10 types of people in this world... those that understand binary, and those that don't

Wetback Wives speak out.

The Center For Global Food Issues or the CGFI. This is some crazy shit. These assholes believe that organic food isn't healthier for you, that organic farming is more dangerous for the soil, that cloned animals won't kill you and get this one, they even believe that Global Warming isn't caused by humans. What a bunch of hippies!

visit the website here.

Too many articles to post on this one. More like a website to look through and read articles written by scientists. These articles are then reported by farmers trying to make a living off of fact instead of relying on the Farmer's Almanac, though I think I saw one placed in Al Gores pocket as he was standing in front of some of the most brilliant, self indulgent, narcissistic , minds in America giving a speech on Voodoo Science.

They had a saying in my high school. If you weren't a jock, and you weren't any good at music you'd never get any uh, uh, attention. Gore found a way. Finally GETTING SOME after al of these years.

And I say wtf!!

an egyptian perspective on american politics from Al-Ahram. around since 1828, it's apparently the second oldest daily in the arab world.

the caption at the top reads “‘Hillary’ and ‘Obama’ – A Woman and a Negro are Participating in the Campaign for the American Presidency”

The religious man in the foreground is saying: "This is another sign of the collapse of the Western civilization"

who said subtle political satire was dead?

i had to revisit this hilarious article from the onion. here are some highlights, with the full article here.

"The situation in Africa is tragic," Garrity said. "Millions of people are infected with the AIDS virus—a disease they know little to nothing about. Our mission is to let these people know the facts about their AIDS in the few months they have remaining before their deaths."

At an AIDS-awareness rally Monday, Horton sent a clear message to the Botswanans about the disease that will soon claim their lives.

"Everyone raise your hands," Horton said. "Everyone with their hand up will soon die from AIDS."

not that any of us should really give a shit about global warming, considering we'll all be long dead before the world has to somehow, some way, learn how to suffer through an average temperature increase of 3, maybe 4 degrees. i can't even imagine what kind of hell that will be like. but the main reason no one should consider doing a damn thing about global warming is because no one can do a damn thing about global warming! and here's why...

Cosmic Rays

With all this talk of Anna Nicole Smith and the custody battle of her child I think it is Maury Povitch's duty to do a special program revealing the "father of the child". I can imagine it now. Whoever is the baby's father is entitled to 500 million dollars the amount left to the kin of Anna Nicole Smith. Then in classic Sparticus fashion members of the audience stand one by one making the declaration that they "are the baby's father".
Is this the first time in history that a man actually wanted to be the father of the offspring of some slut he banged? I'm already getting blood drawn for the test.

And I say WTF!

it's quite obvious that howard k. stern is the father. either that or he killed her... and her son.

and the bodyguard jumps in...

When I read the article of the homeless parapalegic being dropped off on Skid Row I thought, well hell, we have prisoners in prison, so it only makes sense that we should have homeless people rounded up and corralled in the worst part of the city. Finally something to do with that 750 mile US/Mexico fence.

here's the article.

I can't get these damn links to work.

you know, everyone has their own steve allen story. but how is it that jack paar has become so forgettable? i recently found myself laughing with some neighbors about zsa zsa's last appearance on the colgate comedy hour when, naturally, jack paar's name came up... yes, the jack paar who, "i kid you not," was so popular that they changed the name of The Tonight Show to The Jack Paar Show. anyway, later that night i went on imdb.com to pull up a picture of jack, only to find that where a photo of this american legend should be, was only a graphic telling me "no photo available." this is the same imdb.com that has a plethora of william hung and jeanne tripplehorn pics in its photo gallery. in a small attempt to rectify this injustice, i am posting jack paar, may he rest in all of our thoughts.

Here's a response to an article from MSNBC about young girls becoming prostitutes and mindless whores by imitating most prominent woman in our present media.
Don't bother with the article you'll start loosing brain cells, better to drink those off.

Here's the link to the original article:
Girls Gone Bad

Here's the good stuff:
Posted By: brianna adams (2/4/2007 at 9:42:43 AM)
Comment: I agree with your comment wholly, Craig. Making ludacris assumptions that this generation of young girls are a crowd of brainless followers is very naiive of Newsweek to broadcast. I admit, I'm a 15-year old high school student who happens to appreciate the controversial and debate-worthy articles in this magazine, but this story certainly has reduced my appreciation for this publication with their distorted views on the adolescant population. I can spell adequate and define it!!! Ughhhh They really must need some new topics to write about or something. Or maybe I should just swith to TIME....

Posted By: Bob Ross (2/4/2007 at 10:19:19 AM)
Comment: Sadly, you may be able to spell "adequate" but you can't spell "ludicrous." You have been adversely affected by the pop culture that confuses and misuses words such as "Ludicras", (I believe to be a hip-hop singer/actor) and "ludicrous", (meaning laughable). The article is an accurate statement of the sad state of celebrity worship in which we live. BR

occasionally i come across interesting music or a cool or unique sounding artist. unfortunately, sometimes it's just one or two songs by the artist that i like. here's some recent stuff i've found:

manu chao - bongo bong
band of horses - the funeral
flunk - several songs off their morning star album are really good

apparently that band of horses song got lots of play on woxy.com, the internet indie station.

so i'm watching love story with o'neal and macgraw, and ali is sobbing on the steps of the college dormitory when she gives ryan that memorable line, "love means never having to say you're sorry."

well, i'm sorry (especially to all those who love me), but this is pure crap! if anything, true love is when you find that one person from whom you are willing to accept an infinite number of apologies.

so iran wants europe to quit paying lip service to that holocaust thing and cough up some hard evidence. coming from a government that believes most of the historical records of WWII to be mythical, that seems like a reasonable enough request... but then iran also says that if the west was responsible for the jewish displacement/extermination during WWII, then the west should give up its own land for a jewish state. you can't have it both ways, iran. either way, though, iran will have israel "wiped off the map" any day now. does any sane person honestly think that this country's present government can be reasoned with, can engage in genuine diplomacy.

here's the latest

notice the mud flap girls

i don't care... i think the fat one is cuter

i just watch John Q last week, about a guy who's son needs a heart transplant that he can't pay for, leading him to undertake a series of rational and well thought out ventures. there were many things wrong with this film, including the fact that duvall's character was named frank grimes, and nobody insisted on calling him "grimey." but, by far, the most horrifying moment of the film came when the hospital administrator and the head of cardiac surgery had to tell john q and his wife that their insurance did not cover the necessary transplant and that their son would die without it... and who walks in the room to deliver such delicate and sensitive tidings... james woods and anne heche.

good read...

the writer behind Theo van Gogh's film Submission

Some of the quotes in this story are hilarious!

...in a van down by the rio!