It seems Osama Bin Laden has a fan in Japan and his name is Timaking. He's the creator of Afuganisu-Tan, a "historical" comic that chronicles the turbulent past of Afghanistan through disarmingly cute characters each of which represent a country. Afghanistan is portrayed as a poor pitiable child, while America is depicted ... [Read More]

Denver's homeless will need to find a new place to loiter when the Democratic National Convention comes to town next month. The city plans to bribe them to stay away, or at least out of sight, with movie tickets & zoo passes So much for the party of inclusion. But officials insist they're not "hiding the ... [Read More]

Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi did her best impression of George Bush last week, telling CNN's Wolf Blitzer she would not even allow off-shore drilling to come up for a vote despite polls showing 73% of Americans are in favor of it. Instead, she revealed her own ingenious energy plan to take 10% of the Strategic ... [Read More]

How you interpret this month's New Yorker magazine, which satirically portrays Barack Obama as a Muslim terrorist, says more about you, then it does about Obama or even the artist that drew it. It's the ultimate political Rorschach test. And what the paranoid leftists over at the Huffington Post see is a smoking gun: ... [Read More]

Spain is going to the dogs... er, apes. Last month the parliament's environmental committee approved resolutions to extend human rights to apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, and orang-utans). The legislation was spearheaded by the Great Apes Project (GAP), which believes (among other things) apes aka "community of equals" ... [Read More]

Japanese cell phone provider Emobile has pulled their latest ad amid accusations of racism. The ad (video below) which features a monkey in a suit adressing a crowd of cheering fans who hold up signs demanding change is obviously a reference to presidential candidate Barack Obama. And while it may be controversial, it's hardly ... [Read More]

Moveon.org's latest political ad smacks of hypocrisy. The ad (video below) features what I can only assume is a gay unwed mother addressing John McCain, pleading with him not to take her baby to fight his 100-year war. Forget the fact that this commercial distorts McCain's words in which he said he'd be fine with staying in ... [Read More]