We here at Hoystory would like to congratulate the Puerto Rican Olympic mens basketball team for beating a bunch of arrogant, egotistical multimillionaires from the United States.
We here at Hoystory would like to congratulate the Puerto Rican Olympic mens basketball team for beating a bunch of arrogant, egotistical multimillionaires from the United States.
I'm generally cool to the Olympics as they have been presented by NBC for the past couple decades. It's a sporting event -- cover it like one. Setting that complaint aside, I'm watching synchronized diving. Why? There's no underwater basketweaving on. I'm of the opinion that synchronized anything isn't a sport. Heck, I thought curling […]
I was kidding when I wrote that I would file a lawsuit with the FTC over The New York Times "All the News that's Fit to Print" slogan. Somebody else took my joke seriously. (Via Poor and Stupid.)
So, Vice President Dick Cheney slams Sen. John Kerry for saying that he would fight a "more sensitive" war on terror. Says Cheney: "America has been in too many wars for any of our wishes, but not a one of them was won by being sensitive ... A sensitive war will not destroy the evil […]
You just gotta love Paul Krugman. So book smart, but reality stupid. [A] new Bush campaign ad pushes the theme of an "ownership society," and concludes with President Bush declaring, "I understand if you own something, you have a vital stake in the future of America." Call me naïve, but I thought all Americans have […]
Good dental health is still just a dream for many in Iraq. Don't the Iraqi people deserve a "spiritual leader" who can chew his own food?
So I went trolling around the left side of the Internet and came across this from the liberal Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The title of the document tells you all you really need to know about it. ADMINISTRATION'S LATEST 2004 DEFICIT PROJECTION APPEARS OVERSTATED; Will Final Deficit Figure Be Presented As Progress In […]
A researcher at MIT has determined that the key to being considered sexy is your name. Linguist Amy Perfors of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology posted photos of men and women on the U.S. Web site "Hot or Not," which lets viewers rate pictures according to how attractive they find them. When she posted the […]
Got this one from my anonymous Air Force friend. A new bar opened and everyone in town was talking about it. The buzz was because it had a robot-bartender. One fellow had to see this for himself, so in he goes and sits at the bar. Sure enough, a robot was bar tending. The man […]
Last month Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (aka FAIR) came out with a report entitled: "Still Failing the 'Fair and Balanced' Test." The report is an indictment of Fox News' main nightly news show, "Special Report with Brit Hume," for featuring very few liberals in the news interview portion of the program. One interesting thing […]