Posts Tagged: Oh Brother
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No Cuban Will Ever Buy a Mercedes Again

Here you go! At CES, Mercedes pimped some weird "car-sharing" app with a doctored classic photo of Che Guevara with a Mercedes logo on his hat, because they were making a joke (joke?) about socialism, which, how did this even happen, on any of the complicated levels on which that seems like a bad idea at this moment? So, yes: "Felix Rodriguez, who is now president of the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association, said other veterans of the failed invasion had also commented on Mercedes-Benz website and promised never again to buy a vehicle from the car maker." The Cubans are, sure, enraged, and perhaps you will enjoy [...]

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Town Halls: Confused Angry People Say "No" To Not Giving Health Care To Immigrants?

Wonkette went to Jim Moran's health care town hall in Virginia and all they got was the sadness.

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Adventuressism Confused with Spying

"Elements of the case against his client, Mr Owen said, included her interest in Nato and a string of affairs with older men in positions of authority." —A fun-loving MP's aide may be deported from Knifecrime Island because her dalliances with older men have convinced folks she is a crafty Russian spy. (Matta Harlot?) And we think we have it bad with all those Mexicans!

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Helpful Ergonomic Tips From Successful Novelist Plum Sykes To You!

"Over time, sitting for long stretches weakens your core-the muscles that should hold you upright-and leads to far too much pressure on your back muscles… I had one-on-one lessons with Madonna's Pilates instructor in London…I do Pilates sessions twice a week and ride my horse twice a week (horse riding is excellent for strengthening the core, legs, and arms.) I never sit at the computer for more than 30 minutes without standing up and stretching. I have hired an assistant who types while I dictate."

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Adventures in Facebook Privacy: Marine Claims He Humiliated Afghani Prisoner

Aren't Facebook's new "privacy" settings grand? So many Facebook profiles, now all publicly available. (Thanks, Mark Zuckerberg!) For example, here you can see Lionel Garcia's Facebook page. Garcia, a 2007 graduate of Pasco Senior High in Washington State, has been in Afghanistan since February. Right before he left for overseas, the Marine posted to Facebook that "I'm gonna go illegally drive without my liscence." [sic] But now that he's in Afghanistan (all this is by his own report, of course), he's found new fun things to do. The other day he "officially made an afghani hold up a sign that says 'I'm A Faggot' while I took a [...]