In the seemingly prophetic Simpsons episode G.I. D'oh (video right) recruiters shamelessly push Army propaganda on school kids offering them the chance to pre-enlist. Sure we all laughed, but who's laughing now?
On October 15th, Chicago commissioned the nation's 1st public high school run by the U.S. Marine Corps. And while ... [Read More]
Dr. David Levy forecasts that within just 50 years man and machine will be walking hand in grappler down the aisle. Dr. Levy cites: the Roomba, Sony's robot dog Aibo, and Tickle Me Elmo as examples of technology's move toward anthropomorphization. Henrik Christensen, founder of the European Robotics Research Network, predicts ... [Read More]
This December in the pages of THE ALL-NEW BOOSTER GOLD #5 Booster Gold discovers that one of comics' most dramatic and life altering stories ever, BATMAN: THE KILLING JOKE, in which the Joker shot and paralyzed Barbara Gordon aka Batgirl and subsequently led to Batgirl's transformation into the super-hacker Oracle, never ... [Read More]
Wonton Food, the country's largest producer of fortune cookies, is putting dire warnings like “Today is a disastrous day. If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em,” and “It’s over your head now. Time to get some professional help,” into circulation. Before you blow off these predictions as a nonsensical jumble of words, ... [Read More]
With the dust still settling on the N-word's grave, will The Boondocks bow down to all the haters? Don't count on it. Season 2 pulls no punches: ass whoopings, F-bombs, homosexual pejoratives, and yes even the N-word abound; and that's just the way we like it. Nevertheless, expect CNN to once again do a sanctimonious segment ... [Read More]
Ahh... youth. A stupider time, flailing joypads around for added leftness & rightness, kneeling beneath the TV to look up a skirt, and (physics be damned) NOTHING WAS STRONGER THAN THE DOUBLE PUNCH after all it's twice the punch!
Bravo Bizarro for proving a spinning downward right hook is no match for the double ... [Read More]
