Showing posts with label usa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label usa. Show all posts

Friday, September 7, 2007

Just like the '50s, bro!

Headline: Bush: U.S. Will Call End to Korean War When North Stops Nuclear Pursuits

The great news about this is that the Iraq war might be over as soon as 2060! By which time the reanimated John F. Kennedy will capture America's hearts with a promise to put a zombie on the moon by decade's end, and we might finally hear the last part of Richard M. Nixon's Piano Concerto No. 1. Assuming he doesn't burn the tapes.

Saturday, June 9, 2007

So that's why they're so concerned about "precious bodily fluids."


Teh Gay, soon to be available in convenient chemical weapon form:

Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsquently rejected, building the so-called “Gay Bomb.”

The Ohio Air Force lab proposed (in 1994) that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soldiers to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another…


[via warren ellis]

Thursday, April 5, 2007

Thursday, February 15, 2007

Don't forget your history, know your destiny

Manifest Destiny and Western Canada is a free online history book detailing the fascinating interaction between the Riel Rebellion, US and Canadian expansionism in the 19th century, and the historical forces that led to Sitting Bull and General Custer meeting at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Highly recommended.

Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Warning time


You know, somebody should have just stuck one of those stickers on Iraq and saved a lot of grief.