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Creationism and I.D. Banned.

Filed under Society, Religion. No comments.
Creationism and I.D.  Banned.

Now this is what I call government at work. The Swedish government is to crack down on the role religion plays in independent faith schools. The new rules will include a ban on biology teachers teaching creationism or 'intelligent design' alongside evolution. &quo...read more

Would they assassinate McCain?

Would they assassinate McCain?

Would “They”? Who would be they? Republicans have been voting from the rooftops for over 40 years, so is turnabout fair play? Yea, this video is funny, but it's too dam close to the truth. Being a man of non-violence and peace, and even thou...read more

ESL and TESOL Scam?

Filed under Scams, Education. No comments.
ESL and TESOL Scam?

Are TESOL and ESL Schools a scam? Over the past year, I have been immersed in the world of TESOL. - Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, which is just about the same thing as ESL Teacher. As I talked about in a recent article “Mexican Montessori...read more

Myspace: If you're not pretty, you're not welcome

Filed under Stupidity, Children, Censorship. 14 comments, most recent by mini-mel.
Myspace: If you're not pretty, you're not welcome

It seems the narcissistic centre of the universe does have a problem with certain types of people after all. Myspace administrators have banned a couple from posting pictures of their young recently deceased son on their Myspace page because, well because he doesn't ...read more

There's hope yet for The Zune Guy

There's hope yet for The Zune Guy

For anyone who has been living under a rock, back in mid 2007 a Steven Smith got a Zune tattoo. If that wasn't enough, he got another, and then yet another tattoo dedicated to the MP3 player by Microsoft. As misguided as this was, he went one step further. In Early 2008...read more

Airline puts money ahead of safety

Filed under Bizarre, Bureaucracy, Travel. 5 comments, most recent by Jay.
Airline puts money ahead of safety

An Air Canada official says the airline is removing all life jackets from their fleets to save a little money on fuel. And apparently airline regulations allow it as long as the planes remain within 80 kilometres of shore. Passengers will now be directed to use seat...read more

Android to get its own store

Android to get its own store

Trust Google to do what others have failed. Are you reading this Apple? The search behemoth's forthcoming mobile phone operating system (Android) is getting it's own online store. Very much unlike the Apple situation though, Google will be encouraging developers i...read more

F*cked up Friday

Filed under Movies, Entertainment, Amusing. 5 comments, most recent by Jay.
F*cked up Friday

Warning this post is rated R. So read at your own risk. We have all seen those movies that leaving us saying at some point "That's f*cked up!" Some more than others. Watching Postal made me say that more than once. Here a some flicks I have seen that had...read more

Postal goes Bolls out

Filed under Movies, Movie review, Entertainment, DVD Review. 3 comments, most recent by mini-mel.
Postal goes  Bolls out

If you are easily offended then do not watch this movie. In other words I got a kick out of it. I think Uwe Boll made this film about the same time Team America World Police came out it would have been received better as it is the same kind of in your face offensive hum...read more

Mexican Montessori Dreams

Filed under Education, Career. 17 comments, most recent by Friendo.
Mexican Montessori Dreams

Teaching Montessori in Mexico. At age 55, after 35 years selling cars, houses, property, consulting, drugs, and anything else that seemed right at the time, something happened. In April of 2007- leaving my spouse behind to finish teaching her final year as a Kin...read more

Apple propaganda bites iPhone in the arse

Filed under Web, Technology, Internet, Apple. 3 comments, most recent by Kline.
Apple propaganda bites iPhone in the arse

The Advertising Standards Authority in the UK has banned the Apple iPhone advertisement from further broadcasting, due to the adverts claim that "all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone". This claim is as we all know completely false, as 2 of the mo...read more

Hollywood Switch 5

Hollywood Switch 5

For those unfamiliar with the Hollywood Switch, this is where I take 2 movies and switch out actors to see what might have been. Feel free to add some of your own or some flicks would like to see me do this with. Check out previous edtions of The Hollywood Switch here. ...read more

Start your moaning

Filed under Pet Peeves, Movies, Media, Entertainment. 7 comments, most recent by The Movie Whore.
Start your moaning

How do you make a whore moan? Don't pay her OK so that was worse than normal. What makes this whore groan, well there are a few things. Bad acting I can't stand it. It drives me insane. There is only one way to get away with bad acting and that is do it on pur...read more

Monkey Island on your mobile phone?

Filed under Nostalgia, Games. 2 comments, most recent by Mikey.
Monkey Island on your mobile phone?

Ok. I can hardly contain myself. Some enterprising people over at www.scummvm.org have a way you can play your old favourite games on your mobile phone. Including Monkey Island I, II and III. Any mobile phone which supports the Symbian operating system, which is pret...read more

Anti-vaccine couple in the clear

Filed under Children, Legal and Law, Parenting. 3 comments, most recent by Jake.
Anti-vaccine couple in the clear

The New South Wales Department of Community Services (DOCS) has dropped its case against a Sydney couple that have chosen not to vaccinate their week old baby against hepatitis B. DOCS took out a Supreme Court order to force the couple compliance but the order was disch...read more

GITMO to move to Denver. Concentration Camp for Americans.

Filed under Insanity, Activism. 14 comments, most recent by Friendo.
GITMO to move to Denver. Concentration Camp for Americans.

The following video was aired by Denver's CBS 4 News on August 13, 2008. In 2004 at the GOP convention in New York, over 1700 protesters were arrested and taken into custody. This was the largest mass arrest in U.S. history. They were held in a dilapidated wareho...read more

What the faq?

Filed under Satire, Amazing. 4 comments, most recent by Chris.
What the faq?

You know those questions your kids ask you or that you ask yourself when you're really, really baked? I've catalogued a few here for you with my own brand of answer. Q: Can you cry under water? A: Yes, crying is an emotional discharge. You can even expend tears unde...read more

I want to see it again and again

I want to see it again and again

How many movies have you seen that you never get tired of watching? What is it about those flicks that you never get tired of seeing that makes it worth investing the time in them over and over again? As I work with various partners in film, one of the things I al...read more

Shine a Light

Filed under Music review, Music, Documentary. 3 comments, most recent by Yolanda.
Shine a Light

For fans of the Stones, Shine a Light will be one heck of a ride. For non-fans, it's still a good watch. Make no mistake though, despite what you have read or heard elsewhere this is more than just a concert documentary, but only marginally. The opening sees director...read more

Defending The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Defending The Rocky Horror Picture Show

What is there to defend? The Rocky Horror Picture Show has been putting me at odds with people as of late. There have been people giving a lot shit over the fact that I am a strong supporter of the Stop the Remake petition as they feel that RHPS is a piece of shit fl...read more