Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Who is so gross that cannot see this palpable
device?” —Richard III, 3.6.10-11
Land of the Free
Not so much.
Using updated state-by-state data, the report said 2,319,258 adults were held in U.S. prisons or jails at the start of 2008 — one out of every 99.1 adults, and more than any other country in the world.
The steadily growing inmate population “is saddling cash-strapped states with soaring costs they can ill afford and [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers.” —Richard III, 3.3.6
You’re Not the Boss of Me
The RNC’s latest delaying tactic is a silly one: “thanks, but we’d rather not.”
After promising last year to search its computers for tens of thousands of e-mails sent by White House officials, the Republican National Committee has informed a House committee that it no longer plans to retrieve the communications by restoring computer backup [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol’n forth of Holy Writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.”
—Richard III, 1.3.336-38
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Sin, death and hell have set their marks on him,
And all their ministers attend on him.” —Richard III, 1.3.293-94
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Poor painted queen, vain flourish of my fortune:
Why strew’st thou sugar on that bottled spider,
Whose deadly web ensnareth thee about?”
—Richard III, 1.3.241-43
The Earth Is Doomed
Scientists agree:
But don’t blow your savings on an Apocalypse Party just yet, for astronomers say the planet’s demise is 7.6 billion years away.
The unusual calculations appear in the British open-access journal Astrophysics (on http://uk.arxiv.org/).
Robert Smith, emeritus reader in astronomy at the University of Sussex, southern England, previously calculated that as the Sun runs out of [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Thou elvish-mark’d, abortive, rooting hog,
Thou that wast seal’d in thy nativity
The slave of Nature, and the son of hell;
Thou slander of thy heavy mother’s womb,
Thou loathed issue of thy father’s loins,
Thou rag of honour!” —Richard III, 1.3.228-33
Worst. President. Ever.
This, of course, has been widely known for many years now, but the public have managed to catch on despite the media’s best efforts to prop up the Bush Administration:
The 2008 presidential race must be an incredibly welcome development for President Bush and his White House. That’s because the American body politic can only really [...]
