Hackers leak Assad’s astonishing office emails
Hundreds of emails from the office of Bashar al Assad have been leaked by the hacker group Anonymous.By Phoebe Greenwood, Tel Aviv
4:30PM GMT 07 Feb 2012
The group used the simple password “1234” to log into the mail accounts of several of the Syrian president’s closest aids.
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Spaceballs in Syria
Posted: February 9, 2012 in Humor, International, TechnologyTags: Anonymous, Arab Spring, Bashar al-Assad, Hacking, Humor, International, Syria, Technology
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Anthony Weiner Apologizes to His Staff
Posted: June 8, 2011 in Congress, House of Representatives, Humor, PoliticsTags: Anthony Weiner, Congress, House of Representatives, Humor, Politics, Scandal
Unfortunately, Saturday Night Live’s season had already ended before the Anthony Weiner scandal erupted. But that won’t stop Jimmy Fallon…
Great Moments in Journalism
Posted: May 14, 2011 in Humor, MediaTags: Humor, Media, New York Post, Osama bin Laden
The New York Post must have had a field day putting together this front page…
Not Just An Austin Powers Character
Posted: April 29, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Humor, Movies, Pop Culture
Take a Bow, Governor Hickenlooper
Posted: April 2, 2011 in Humor, TVTags: Humor, John Hickenlooper, Michael Scott, The Office, TV
For the best April Fool’s gag of 2011:
Gov. Hickenlooper appoints new Director of Paper Distribution in the Department of Natural Resources
Friday, April 1, 2011 – Gov. John Hickenlooper announced today the appointment of Michael Scott to serve as the new Director of Paper Distribution for the Department of Natural Resources.
“Scott’s success in selling paper will help Colorado effectively and efficiently move the large amount of bark beetle lumber from the forest and into the marketplace, creating tons of jobs and making lots of money,” Hickenlooper said. “This is a unique opportunity to resolve Colorado’s forest health and budget issues.”
Scott, of Scranton, Pa., recently announced he is leaving his job as the regional branch manager for Dunder Mifflin Paper. Scott has served in this position since 1994 and is moving to Colorado to join his fiancé, Holly Flax, who is returning home to care for her elderly parents.
Scott was also a small business owner, having successfully started the Michael Scott Paper Co. in 2009. The company was later purchased by his former employer, Dunder Mifflin, which restored Scott and his employees Pam Halpert (née Beesley) and Ryan Howard to their previous positions.
Scott has a unique management approach, where he spends 80 percent of his time “distracting others,” 19 percent of his time “procrastinating,” and 1 percent of his time “critical thinking.”
Photo courtesy of NBC.
Jon Stewart – 1, CNBC – 0
Posted: March 5, 2009 in Humor, MediaTags: CNBC, Daily Show, Humor, Jon Stewart, Media, Rick Santelli
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Jindal’s Rebuttal
Posted: February 26, 2009 in PoliticsTags: Bobby Jindal, GOP Primaries, Humor, Is It 2012 Yet?, Louisiana, Politics
My friend and former colleague John Mercurio makes a good argument for why Bobby Jindal won’t even run for the GOP nomination in 2012.
Louisiana chooses its governors in off years, which means Jindal, who has already announced plans to seek a second term, will likely have his name on a state ballot in November 2011. That’s just a few short months before Iowa caucusgoers will cast the first votes of the 2012 primaries. Other Republican candidates already will have spent months participating in a dizzying round of televised debates and town-hall forums. (Remember how Fred Thompson was widely panned for joining the 2008 race too late? He announced in September 2007.)
The prospect of Jindal seeking both offices in 2011 would require political contortions the likes of which even he would be hard-pressed to perform. Imagine him urging Louisiana voters, still recovering from Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, to support his re-election so he can spend the next year as an absentee governor, traveling the country as a presidential candidate. He could deny charges, likely to come from all corners, that he’s using his re-election bid as a launching pad for the White House. But if he reverses course after November and runs for president, he would face the impossible task of assembling a last-minute national organization at the same time he’s suffering a fatal blow to his credibility.
Elsewhere, the Bobby Jindal/Kenneth the Page comparisons have gone viral. Check out this clip:
Jindal should consider himself fortunate that Jack McBrayer (the actor who plays Kenneth the Page on 30 Rock) doesn’t bear an uncanny physical resemblance to him. Otherwise, Jindal would be getting the full Tina Fey/Sarah Palin treatment. On the other hand, Ben Smith pointed out the new Facebook group calling for Kal Penn (of Harold and Kumar fame) to play Bobby Jindal on SNL.
Update: Andrew Sullivan nails it — “All that really happened here is that Jindal – stylistically and substantively – had the worst debut on national television of anyone since Palin’s encounter with Katie Couric.”
Yes, He Did
Posted: February 13, 2009 in Humor, SportsTags: Alex Rodriguez, Baseball, Humor, Sports, Steroids
This guy must be a lot of fun to play poker with.
Basically the story, as reported by the blog Not Larry Sabato, goes like this. Democrats currently control the Virginia State Senate, 21-19. But Virginia’s Lieutenant Governor is Bill Bolling, a Republican, and he would be a tie-breaking vote in the event of a 20-20 split. Today, one of the Democratic State Senators, Ralph Northam, agreed to switch sides, a move that would give the Republicans in the Senate a much greater share of power.
And they would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t been for this moron, Jeff Frederick, who is the Republican Party Chairman of Virginia and the owner of a shiny Twitter account! Frederick, upon hearing the news, tweeted the following:
What King of the Dimwits Jeff Frederick failed to take into consideration is that, by tweeting this information, he was tipping off the Senate Democrats about this bit of parliamentary prestidigitation. And once they found out, Majority Leader Dick Saslaw adjourned the session so that it couldn’t happen. And then, the Senate Democrats gathered together and promptly browbeat the ever-loving daylights out of Northam.
If they had pulled it off, this would have been a HUGE political coup for the Virginia GOP in the same year that the people of the state are going to elect a new governor. Incumbent Tim Kaine is term-limited and will move on to running the DNC full time after he leaves office. There’s a three-way race for the Democratic nomination, while the Republican candidate is running unopposed. Republicans had an opportunity to reboot with a narrow Senate majority in a state that has elected two consecutive Democrats to the governor’s mansion and voted for a Democratic president for the first time in more than four decades.
Something tells me that Jeff Frederick won’t be privvy to sensitive internal deliberations or strategizing from now on.
Update: An NRO reader suggests the perfect headline for this story. “Loose Twits Sink Shifts.”
Icepicks and Nukes 