Debris
«chaque notaire porte en soi les débris d’un poète.»Archive for satire
Natural selection: Yes, we can!
Mike Rosulek, computer science graduate student at the University of Illinois, has designed a set of images, based on the ubiquitous Shepard Fairey Obama image, to commemorate the bicentennial of Darwin’s birth. This is my personal favorite, in part because of the (presumably unintended, though Rosulek sounds like a Czech name, so perhaps it was deliberate) play on Jaroslav Hašek’s Party of Moderate and Peaceful Progress Within the Limits of the Law:
Rosulek is selling t-shirts with the images to raise money for the National Center for Science Education, a very worthy cause.
(Thanks to Concurring Opinions for the tip.)
Untapped renewable energy source
Vivolium: “as useful as whales, but infinitely more abundant.”
I’m an RTFOÜ. What are you?
According to the Breyers-Devere Probe of Human Worth, I am a Relativist Team-Player Intellectual Pessimist Übermensch. That sounds about right.
Satire or sexism?
The latest issue of Field & Stream has this doosie of a letter-to-the-editor:
I was reading the latest issue of F&S and realized that you were putting a lot of material about women in your magazine. You should be running full-page ads telling sportsmen to write to their congressmen and get them to pass laws making it illegal for women to fish or hunt. I think you had better get your priorities straight. Fishing and hunting are for men only. A woman’s job is to clean and cook the fish or game, serve it to men, and do the dishes afterward.
Albert Donovan, Pocono Lakes, PA
I like the Editor’s response:
This is a letter so profound in its insight, so sublime in its logic, so divinely inspired in its reasoning, that we are struck dumb with awe.
Illegal immigration takes its toll in the corporate suites
In a special report on “Immigration: The Human Cost“, the Onion News Network addresses the plight of corporate executives losing their jobs to low-paid illegal immigrants.
(Thanks to TomPaine.com for the tip.)
Get out of Hell free
Speaking of indulgences, here’s a great service. Get one for yourself, or as a gift for your sinful loved one.
