Relative Popularity of US Presidents

March 16, 2012 at 11:27 am

Saw this factoid and found it quite interesting. These figures are comparisons at the 1145 day of each respective Presidency. You can compare President Obama’s job approval rating to any other President, all the way back to Harry Truman here.

US Presidential Elections: Vital Questions (Pt1)

May 18, 2011 at 9:38 pm

Now that Donald Trump has stepped aside, perhaps former Bush official John Bolton has a better shot at the Presidency? Okay, it’s unlikely. Very unlikely. But hilariously deadpan David Frost gets to the heart of the burning issue: is America ready for a President with a mustache? Part of a […]

Donald Rumsfeld Is A Lizard

March 7, 2011 at 8:20 pm

Donald Rumsfeld is currently doing the rounds on the US media circuit plugging his autobiography “Known and Unknown“. Last week one such appearance was on the Opie And Anthony Show, where comedian Louis CK happened to be a guest. “Louis”, going completely off-base, repeatedly asks the former US Defence Secretary […]

Egypt Shut Down Internet

January 29, 2011 at 5:24 pm

A very worrying graph, and a V for Vendetta inspired response. First it was Facebook. Then it was Twitter. Now, in the face of massive protests in the streets of Cairo and throughout the country, Egypt has pulled the plug on the entire Internet for its citizens. As that chart […]

Money For Nothing Updated

January 17, 2011 at 9:02 am

As that the original version of the Dire Straits classic “Money for Nothing” has been banned in Canada for being politically incorrect, here’s an updated version of it for the modern era. Might as well burn YouTube’s bandwidth to embed this, but in case the video is pulled there’s a […]

Christmas Ideas (US Edition)

November 29, 2010 at 6:32 pm

For your freedom-loving friends in the US, 4th Amendment Wear is underwear with that section of the United States Constitution printed on them with metallic ink. That means it will show up when worn through a TSA X-Ray machine. Fantastic! In children’s sizes too. Makes you wonder what other slogans […]

US Mid-Term Elections Live-Blog 2nd Nov

November 2, 2010 at 7:00 pm

Tonight we’ll be live-blogging the US mid-term elections. The BBC and the left-leaning media are already trotting out the excuses, the blame game is beginning and the spinning on all sides has been going for days. But the polls are only just closing and careers can still be won and […]

Campaigning Video, US Style

November 2, 2010 at 5:45 pm

Voters in the UK are genetically programmed to hate party political broadcasts, but over here they aren’t ever as effective and striking as this….

Government Tapeworms

November 2, 2010 at 3:32 pm

We should all doff our hats to this effort which should have become Washington state’s ballot measure #1069 today: Full text here. Sadly, it doesn’t appear on the ballot today: According to state officials, no petitions were filed in an effort to qualify the measure for the ballot. Shame. It’d work […]

US Mid-Term Elections Live-Blog 2nd Nov

October 31, 2010 at 1:00 pm

It’s showdown time! Harry Reid vs Sharron Angle, Christine O’Donnell vs Chris Coons, Marco Rubio vs Charlie Crist vs some Democrat in Florida, primary upsets and write-in candidates in Alaska…and those are only the headline races. It’ll be a night of high drama and humiliation on Tuesday and we’re going […]