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Banalogy

ba·nal: / beyn – nahl / ad­jec­tive 1. de­void of fresh­ness or orig­i­nal­ity; hack­neyed; trite a·nal·o·gy: /uh – nal – uh-jee / noun 1. a sim­i­lar­ity be­tween like fea­tures of two things, on which a com­par­i­son may be based 2. sim­i­lar­ity or com­pa­ra­bil­ity ba­nal­ogy: / beyn – nal – uh-jee / noun 1. A hack­neyed and stu­pid com­par­i­son made be­tween two things that bear ab­solutely no sim­i­lar­ity or com­pa­ra­bil­ity to each other 2. A word I just […]

Exasperated

Exasperated, a photo by BonsMots on Flickr.

The Craptacular: Guantanamo Edition

Tortured For Her Weight By Bonnie Dean She doesn’t know how long she was un­con­scious. She was even un­sure how long she had been in the cham­ber. Days and hours melded into one an­other. Time be­came mean­ing­less; her pain was eter­nal. Khloe twisted her body to ease the stiff­ness in her limbs. Her move­ment was […]

Radio Song

The Dire Straits song “Money for Nothing” was banned from Canadian ra­dio by the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC), who ruled that “the song vi­o­lates the industry’s code of ethics be­cause the lyrics in­clude the word “fag­got” three times.” This comes on the heels of the re­cent san­i­tiz­ing of the Mark Twain clas­sic The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. […]

It’s the end of the world as we know it

The un­ex­plain­able deaths of birds and fish in Arkansas have led some peo­ple to spec­u­late that the apoc­a­lypse will soon be upon us. The whole Mayan-calendar-ending-next-year thing has also added fuel to the fire (and given us one spec­tac­u­lar guilty plea­sure of a movie, 2012). While I’d be the first to roll my eyes at crazy Bible-thumpers rant­ing about the end of days, recent […]

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