Iran? No, guess again. Iraq? Yeah, right. Pakistan? Close, but no cigar.
It’s us. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report earlier this week that says that the Department of Homeland Security’s “Terrorist Watch List” now has over 750,000 names of American citizens on it, and that another quarter of a million names will be added to it in the next year.
That’s right, we’re closing in on ONE MILLION SUSPECTS in the United States. No wonder the government needs to tap our phones, filter our e-mail, keep us off airplanes, and arrest us without warrants or speedy trials, we’re fuckin’ dangerous! I’d better go turn myself in before I blow up something! You should too. In fact, I think I’ll rat you out to see if I can get a plea-bargain…I knew there was something shifty-looking about you.
Dear Harvey, Pete, Barry, Kevin, and every other weathermonkey on Boston-area TV: Enough is enough. The fucking blizzard was THIRTY-TWO YEARS AGO. It’s time to stop trotting out the same blurry videotape of cars stuck on Rt. 128 that is older than some of the people who are actually on your broadcast, just so we [...]
It’s going to be a long two months waiting for the iPad to actually ship so that all the tech bloggers and their hangers-on will stop writing so much speculative bullshit about iT and turn their attention iNstead to some other thing that’s going to Change Life As We Know iT. Since you cannot click [...]
Please, please, PUH-LEEZE stop talking about “What do we call the last decade?” Nobody could come up with an acceptable choice ten years ago, and nobody’s going to come up with one now. “Aughties” and “Naughties” are contrived and stupid, and so is the very idea that anything wraps up all nice and neatly into [...]
