First it’s the Patriot Act, now this? Apparently there’s nowhere left in this world for anonymous dissenters to share defaming comments about people they don’t know. A court ruling has demanded that Google release the secret identity of a certain blogger using its platform after content on the person’s blog, Skanks in NYC, was deemed unlawful in its regards to the personal and professional reputation of Canadian model Liskula Cohen. (more…)
If there’s one thing I learned in my several years of Hebrew School, it’s that we of the Hebrew persuasion are not really fans of Nazis. It probably has something to do with the fact that that Adolph Schicklgruber and company tried to wipe us off the face of the earth with a little something that was quite the opposite of Universal Health Care, called “Genocide”.
So, it should stand to reason that not only would Jewish people not readily support any policies that are even vaguely Nazi-esque in their conception, but that we would also take great offense to any such suggestion that we do in fact stand for any of those iffy values. That hasn’t stopped a few extreme crazies from hurling such inclinations in the general direction of a few chosen people - and the president. (more…)
Even after what many may call a destructive contribution to the Republican Party’s 2008 election hopes, a befuddling set of geography skills/foreign policy experiences, and a lofty fall from grace as the most questionable governor in the Union, there are still people out there who think Sarah Palin should be the next American president.
We don’t take sides at OneRiot, but we do spend way too much time watching YouTube. And while some might question whether YouTube-watching counts as billable work time, we encourage you to shut your mouths and watch this video, proving just how…um…amazing Sarah Palin is.
It’s exhausting to keep up with all the players this hurricane season. There was Guillermo, Claudette, Sanjay, not to mention Prakatkiet, Alangatulakay, and Bubbaloo out on the Pacific. Well, fret not. The next scourge to slap the islands with 110 mph winds has a simple name: Bill. Correction, don’t fret unless you live somewhere in the Carribean. And if that is where you live, then you’ve had a pretty sweet life thus far. Time to give it up to nature. (more…)
Racial profiling is a longstanding tradition in the United States of America. If you’re brown and weren’t in the movie Slumdog Millionaire, odds are someone in a position of authority thinks you’re either a terrorist, a burglar hell bent on ransacking the homes of prominent Harvard Professors, or worse, a socialist Nazi who wants to turn us all into a helpless gaggle of able bodied citizens with guaranteed health care. Tradition aside, it had seemed like the practice of profiling had died down over the past few weeks in the wake of some sort of controversial incident in Massachusetts of which we’re totally unaware of the specifics. (more…)
Just when it seemed that no self-respecting NFL team was ready to take a chance on famously crestfallen super-athlete Michael Vick, the sporting world’s collective ratings heads sighed a breath of anxious relief: Philadelphia has come calling.
The former dog-fight organizer, fresh off a year in prison, will now call himself an Philadelphian. And while hive-minded animal lovers of the world may have a bone to pick with the Eagles organization for taking a chance on a convicted felon, it wouldn’t be the first time a team has done so:
+ Ray Lewis was tried for murder earlier in the decade and continues to play
+ Jamal Lewis has been convicted of drug trafficking, and also continues to play.
+ Donte Stallworth was convicted of DUI Manslaughter earlier this year (he has been suspended for the upcoming season and served less than five days of jail time).
+ Christian Peter was arrested twice for rape in college and went on to play for three different NFL teams.
So while this news of Michael Vick (who did nothing to people, only dogs) being reinstated in the league is hot today, chances are it will be all but forgotten by the time his new contract expires.
So, today is the first day of the 2009 PGA Tour Championship. This year’s tournament takes place in Chaska, Minnesota, and even though only a handful of rich patrons will actually be in attendance, the PGA has come through with a far-reaching live stream of the event complete with social media discussions on Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. (more…)
Americans have put a man on the moon, sent a pothead to the Beijing to collect an ungodly amount of Olympic gold medals, and even briefly nurtured the careers of Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer - but by all accounts we’ve still had very little reason to collectively hold our heads up as a nation… until now.
Ladies and gentlemen, an automotive company from the United States has broken the 200 mpg fuel barrier - that’s 230 miles per gallon city to be exact - so suck on that German engineering and Japanese discipline. It was good ol’ fashion red, white, and blue elbow grease that built the new Chevy Volt. (more…)
Neighborhood mutts may have to get acquainted with a new combo of fabric and leg meat now that the US Postal Service is considering closing (or scaling down to 700 locations). Our nation’s mail carrier has fallen on hard times, as people are snailing letters less and less. Instead, it seems they are relying on a new technology called “E-mail” - which doesn’t require inexplicably affixing photos of Bighorn Sheep or American Flags to the corner of an envelope at additional cost. That being said, many Americans will be forced to walk or drive an extra mile (through six feet of snow no less) to find a new local mail center for which to request return receipts and send little cousin Billy his birthday chemistry set and/or model rocketship. The real question remains…what will become of our zip codes?
Cue the Oingo Boingo: legendary Hollywood director John Hughes died today at the age of 59. Hughes was visiting his family in New York and, while on a walk, suffered a heart attack.
Hughes was a vanguard for film in the 1980s, creating masterpieces like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club and Planes, Trains & Automobiles. He’s responsible for assembling the Brat Pack, his films jumpstarted the careers of Demi Moore, Emilio Estevez, Matthew Broderick and Robert Downey Jr., and his work will be forever etched into the American cultural zeitgeist.
John leaves behind a legacy that few others will ever achieve. He made a lot of people smile.
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The Summary: Mel Gibson becomes a father of eight children - and OneRiot renames them all.
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