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MADD Scientists Frantically Working to Create Black Holes

Monday, January 26, 2009

I might have the headline wrong, but the creation of a black hole would definitely end drunk driving, n’est pas?
Anyway, while Al Gore and his crew of eco-warriors worry endlessly and obsessively about how much carbon we’re creating and how much fun we’re having, there’s a crew over in Europe somewhere trying to create black [...]

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Absolut was Wrong on the Reconquista Ad, Let’s Not Spin It

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

There’s been a bit of a frenzy over the Absolut reconquista ads; some are outraged, and for some it’s a tempest in a teapot.  As Michelle Malkin reports, the controversy has even spread to Wikipedia, with both sides taking a stand as to whether the controversy should be mentioned in Absolut’s Wikipedia page.  I say [...]

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An Absolute Miss: One Chicano’s Viewpoint

Friday, April 4, 2008

Michelle Malkin writes about an ad campaign that is destined to be remembered as one of the  biggest cultural gaffes in advertising history.  Absolute manages to take the American out of Mexican-American.
One of my earliest memories I have of one of my aunts was getting juice from her in the kitchen, and her leaning down and telling my cousin [...]

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Supreme Court & Texas to Bush: “Back Off, He’s Frying”

Wednesday, March 26, 2008

In an oddly upside down story, the New York Times reports that the Supreme Court has agreed with Texas; President Bush has no right enforce a World Court ruling by enjoining the State of  Texas from executing a Mexican national.
The Supreme Court ruling acknowledged that President Bush, in pressing Texas to take another look at the [...]

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