June 2011
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Spot the fake Drake punchlines?
Rap is dead: Weekend at Bernie’s
anfscu:
Below you will find 20 punchlines from Drake songs. Only half of them are real. Can YOU spot which ones are fake?
“Life is sweet like my cereal: Fruity Pebbles”
“This time I’m really goin off: fireworks”
“I want to get up in your business: breakout session”
“Bout to set it off in this bitch: Jada Pinkett”
“I can teach you how to speak my...
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Interview of Zbigniew Brzezinski, Le Nouvel...
Q: The former director of the CIA, Robert Gates, stated in his memoirs ["From the Shadows"], that American intelligence services began to aid the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan 6 months before the Soviet intervention. In this period you were the National Security Adviser to President Carter. You therefore played a role in this affair. Is that correct?
Brzezinski: Yes. According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan, 24 Dec 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise: Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the president in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention.
Q: Despite this risk, you were an advocate of this covert action. But perhaps you yourself desired this Soviet entry into war and looked to provoke it?
Brzezinski: It isn't quite that. We didn't push the Russians to intervene, but we knowingly increased the probability that they would.
Q: When the Soviets justified their intervention by asserting that they intended to fight against a secret involvement of the United States in Afghanistan, people didn't believe them. However, there was a basis of truth. You don't regret anything today?
Brzezinski: Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter: We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.
Q: And neither do you regret having supported the Islamic [integrisme], having given arms and advice to future terrorists?
Brzezinski: What is most important to the history of the world? The Taliban or the collapse of the Soviet empire? Some stirred-up Moslems or the liberation of Central Europe and the end of the cold war?
Q: Some stirred-up Moslems? But it has been said and repeated: Islamic fundamentalism represents a world menace today.
Brzezinski: Nonsense! It is said that the West had a global policy in regard to Islam. That is stupid. There isn't a global Islam. Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. But what is there in common among Saudi Arabian fundamentalism, moderate Morocco, Pakistan militarism, Egyptian pro-Western or Central Asian secularism? Nothing more than what unites the Christian countries.
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Fukushima much worse than you think; biggest... →
“In the US, physician Janette Sherman MD and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano published an essay shedding light on a 35 per cent spike in infant mortality in northwest [U.S.] cities that occurred after the Fukushima meltdown, and may well be the result of fallout from the stricken nuclear plant.”
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Everything you say or do can and will be held... →
“Your online writing could come back to haunt you–years after you added something to Facebook. The Federal Trade Commission has approved Social Intelligence Corp’s push to archive seven years’ worth of Facebook posts for pre-employment screening program.”
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Beef Consumption as Hetero-Masculine Fortification →
“In this essay I investigate the ways meat consumption, especially hamburgers and beef in general, has become a means of performing masculinity. Look at the ‘Manthem’ commercial Burger King aired, to see my primary text. In their commercial Burger King presents eating a large hamburger as a rejection of metrosexuality in favor of a retrograde masculinity.”
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In Which We Showcase Humor In An Almost Classical... →
Here’s a “piece” I wrote for This Recording three years ago about “things I find funny”; somehow I still find most of this stuff funny.
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Jokes From Ancient Rome →
One of the oldest Roman jokes is told by Macrobius in his Saturnalia (4th century AD, but the joke itself is probably several centuries older):
Some provincial man has come to Rome, and walking on the streets was drawing everyone’s attention, being a real double of the emperor Augustus. The emperor, having brought him to the palace, looks at him and then asks:
Tell me, young man, did your...
