Kriplekistan

I know I usually at least try to be witty with my titles, but I felt this new post needed to be politically incorrect exactly because of this week's topic. A recent article came up in Newsweek in which a man, Peter Kessner, laments that he had to trade in a "normal" looking hybrid, a Honda Civic hybrid, for a new Toyota Prius because, wait for it...............HE WANTED PEOPLE TO KNOW HE WAS DRIVING A HYBRID. Un-@#$%ing believable. Aside from the 2 inch plate on the back of the civic indicating it is eco-friendly, there is no way to tell the car is an actual hybrid. Therefore, the act of doing a good deed isn't what is important to the self described "devout environmentalist," it was all about the amount of hype his fellow greenies gave him. What is absolutely fantastic about this entire article, is that its not just about the complete ostentatiousness of one man, but AN ENTIRE MOVEMENT. The article continues (here is the entire link http://www.msnbc.ms...

Oh you crazy Russians, you just love to be the center of attention don't you? While you played second fiddle to the United States for most of the Cold War (except 1976-1980 thank you very much Jimmy "History's Greatest Monster" Carter), you at least were a worthy advirsary, until the West discovered that your statist economic system was a total failure. So you disappeared from the world stage for a few years, only to gain headlines concerning your brushfire war with Chechnya. I didn't care, did anyone else care? Well, the past few weeks have been witness to different varieties of Russian activity, activity which in most peoples' minds is antagonistic and worrisome and at best nostalgic for the Cold War. Resuming long range nuclear bomber flights, systematically starving its neighbors of oil and gas when they "act up", poisoning an ex Russian spy in London with polonium, symbolically planting a flag at the bottom of the Artic Ocean claiming it as...

So what if Saddam has been dead for 8 months? So what if this story is over a year old? The expression "that will never get old" exists for a reason and this certainly fits that mold. For those of you who don't wish to read the entire report, it became common knowledge that during Saddam's tenure as a guest of his supermax detention area, U.S. Marines forced him to watch himself be lampooned as the ultra abusive/obsessive gay lover of Satan in both various episodes of South Park as well as South Park the Movie itself. http://animatedfilms.suite101.com/article.cfm/saddam_forced_to_watch_south_park I like to think that before Saddam died, he rediscovered some of that love for the United States and American humor after watching a few episodes of South Park featuring himself. Ah, come on, relax guy! Now all we have to do is catch Osama and show him the South Park episode in which he has microscopic genitalia, makes out with a camel, and has his brains blown out, tha...

Well then, this post has all the makings of the most boring thus far in this collection. The 107 degree heat is absolutely oppressing all of Washington, and indeed stretching across the rest of the country as well. We've also endured a roller coaster of a few weeks, watching the disasters of I-35 near Minneapolis, the trapped Miners in Utah who will hopefully make it out alive, and the stock market swinging like a pendulum in the middle of a category 5 hurricane. So, what exactly has been going on in the past few weeks? The annual discovery channel broadcast of Shark Week, which all but signals the end of summer for kids across American has come and gone. Barry Bonds just became the new Home Run king of baseball last night, hitting number 756. Bear Grylls' pseudo scandal. Michael Vick's ultra big scandal. Two Presidential Debates have come and gone with both Republicans and Democrats having their respective turns. Well, here's a brief synopsis. Shark Week. Goo...