I’ve been persuaded by conventional advertising that if I don’t have white teeth, I’m ugly. My teeth are certainly not yellow, but they aren’t paper colored either. I knew I needed to do something, so I consulted a dentist. That dentist kept trying to fool me into paying hundreds of dollars for all his experience, professional equipment, and sanitary conditions.
Luckily a single mom discovered a simple trick to whiten my teeth.
The Czech President, Václav Klaus, has been doing his best to hold up the EU’s Lisbon Treaty for a while now, but today he finally ratified it. He’s famously skeptical of the EU, but plenty of people put plenty of pressure on him. Lisbon aims to further unify the EU – giving Europe a President and a “foreign representative” for example. Václav Klaus, notably, is not Václav Havel – the only other post-Soviet Czech President who confusingly also happens to have the first name “Václav.” Havel, a rock star on the diplomatic circuit, is much more liberal – Klaus is considered much more conservative. -AF
The current state of the internet, makes finding subcultures easy. Quick Facebook searches, yield groups of dissenters. Flickr finds photos of objectors. Then Google Translate roughly deciphers the Czech.
Flickr user donatien snapped this anti-Václav Klaus graffiti. It’s translated as “all suffer Klaus-trophobia.” Ideozlocin.cz is an affiliate of contemporary anarchists CrimethInc Ex-Workers’ Collective
Another photographer tmkelly, caught this sitcker produced by nemluvizame.cz or “Doesn’t speak for me.”
This started off as the scariest Halloween that I’ve ever experienced. I’m not scared of very many things. This is a list of things that scare me:
Sharks
MS-13
Sharks are carnivorous sea creatures. MS-13 is a Salvadorian street gang. Both are known for savage murder. I wasn’t near the ocean, so fear number one was not a concern. Fear number two became a concern, when I found out where the Halloween party was.
The party was at a historic hotel next to MacArthur Park. I knew the park for its lake, and gang-related drug warfare. After finding hearing the location of the party, I developed a plan to avoid all trouble. Run up Alvarado, to Sixth, and dash into the party, without getting murdered. Easy-peasy. But things changed when we were invited to pre-party on Alvarado and 11th.
Alvarado and 11th is the heart of MS-13 territory!
“On a quiet street in Ankara, an American Flag burned. Its stars and its stripes slowly wilting like a dying flower. But all that was dying in that Turkish road was one lone fan’s belief in the power of the American VMA viewing audience. Who had rejected the infinitely better Green Day for the tumblr-powered recent ascent of a girl who dyed her hair….”
This is Andrew Fitzgerald’s classic re-envisioning of the polemic events that occurred at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. In this seminal piece of meme historical fiction, the Kanye West / Taylor Swift controversy never happened. Instead after Green Day won the best rock video, Hayley the neon redheaded Paramore vocalist jumped on stage to utter those immortal words “sup Green Day? ur musik stop bein’ relevant when I was 6.”
Sarah provides us with some of the latest developments in lady contraptions. Sergio looks at Billboards hot tunes, LMFAO and Selena Gomez make the list. Ben interviews the one, the only Dennis Haskins perhaps better known as Mr. Belding.
There is a new infoMania every Thursday at 10pm. In case you missed it, this is the full episode.
I’d say this is the only viral video series that I’m consistently excited about. I like jokes about news and politics, and of course I love the auto-tuner.
Conversations about healthcare is headline news. The president’s moderate plan for healthcare reform, is radicalizing people who would normally stay at home to watch Fox News.
“Terri Hall, 45, of Starke, Fla., said she felt compelled to become political for the first time this year because she was upset by government spending”
The Billionaires for WealthCare are “a grassroots network of health insurance CEOs, industry lobbyists, talk-show hosts, and others profiting off of our broken health care system.”
With catchy slogans like “Let them eat Advil” and “Do no harm… to the bottom line” these not-for-real billionaires, are providing a counter argument to those who earnestly say things like “keep your government hands off my Medicare.”
This satirical guerrilla political theater, seems like a far more interesting way to engage the crazies, then the traditional protest. Perhaps by masquerading as a supporter of causes you don’t support, you can actually get more people motivated to change things.
The Examiner.com wrote a great piece about Current’s weekly “half-hour comedy mash-up of news and pop culture observation.” The article praises the show, which is great, but they goofed in the headline, by calling infoMania, infoMedia. I’d say overall this is a 5/6ths WIN.
