Posts Tagged as ‘news’

December 2, 2008

Ford’s trying to get on the ball… at least it recognizes a ball is in play…

I pipe back in to share this quote from a New York Times article about Ford’s plea to Congress for a bailout:

The company [Ford] said it expected to break even or earn a profit in 2011, the first time it has given such financial guidance since abandoning its goal of making money in 2009.
I’m not [...]

November 6, 2008

The Daily Rant: CNN’s gone completely nuts.

So, the only thing to be talked about more than Barrack Obama’s presidential victory on Tuesday November 4th, 2008 was CNN.  See, CNN, in some bizarre move to either advance news-reporting technology or to grab more ratings, debuted a new instrument in their quest for accurate journalism.
FUCKING HOLOGRAMS.
If you were watching CNN the night of [...]

October 20, 2008

Wait… repeat that headline one more time…

Please focus your attention to the following headline from CNN.com:
Six dead in fish knife rampage.
The story is actually a tragic one, of a man gone insane and stabbing five people (the sixth jumped from a window to avoid being stabbed, only falling to a nasty death on the street below).  Seven other people were wounded.  [...]

August 19, 2008

Bigfoot’s Fake? Noooo…

In case you’ve missed out on all the fun, last week, two guys in Georgia (the state, not the country) reported that they found the corpse of a “Bigfoot” monster.  They then proceeded to hold a press conference, at which, they told the press basically, “We’re not showing this to you for a week.  Deal.”
So [...]

August 11, 2008

No Bears Allowed

This comic started out with the idea of two bears playing chess and discussing philosophy before attacking an old man who wanted to know what time it was (the key idea of this being it’s funny that these dangerous animals are acting so civilized, then maul the crap out of someone, as they are still [...]

August 8, 2008

Whoa, slow down there, Russia!

My friend Sarah is a big friend of Meaningless.  She’s one of the few friends of mine that reads it almost everyday (or whenever she can) and she’s put a few comments on my blog in the past.  Sarah also works in international relations and presently has been touring around Russia and the ex-Soviet Block [...]