Here's your daily does of delicious, if not nutritious, irony.
Man In Anti-Drug Ad Charged In Marijuana Bust
Searls appears in commercials as a hard-hat-wearing worker for the Affiliated Construction Trades Foundation. The commercial lists him as a member of Plumbers and Pipefitters Local 521. It has appeared on television and YouTube to promote the organization's drug-free message.
"Nobody wants to work next to anybody whose judgment is impaired by drugs or alcohol," Searls says in the commercial. "We don't just talk a drug-free work force. We do something about it. The union work force is a drug-free work force."
YouTube - Iranians MPs Joke about Fraud, Torture
Nothing like a little live mic fraud and torture banter.
''Capitalism is evil,'' says new Michael Moore film
Capitalism is evil. That is the conclusion U.S. documentary maker Michael Moore comes to in his latest movie "Capitalism: A Love Story," which premieres at the Venice film festival Sunday.
Capitalism isn't evil, Michael.
Selfishness is evil.
Lack of compassion for your fellow man is evil.
Wearing a ball cap with a suit jacket is evil.
Pete Puma found drunk in local park.
Another tragic fall from grace was witnessed today when animation star Pete Puma was found drunk and unconscious in a local Seattle park.
Pete, probably most famous for his role as a sugar-addicted, cross-dressing predator in the Warner Brothers' extravaganza "Rabbit's Kin", was found early this morning by local members of the TIS (Toon Intervention Squad).
TIS had been searching for the actor since learning sometime yesterday that he had left his home in Warner Woods with a large exploding cigar and a mallet.
Persons close to the search said that Pete was found with several large lumps on his head and in a drunken state. When asked how many drinks he'd had, searchers say he replied, "Oh, three or four."
Scientists design spacecraft to save Earth - Telegraph
Heroic missions to stop life on Earth from being wiped out by an asteroid have become a favourite theme for Hollywood disaster films.
Now, a team of British engineers have designed a real-life spacecraft to save the world from destruction.
Thank God the Brits are on it!
Iranians Say Prison Rape Is Not New - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com
"Published reports are available about these types of torture committed against women political prisoners after the 1979 Revolution. The most systematic type of reported rape has been the rape of virgin girls who were sentenced to death by execution because of political reasons. They were raped on the night before execution. These reports have been substantiated by frequent statements from the relatives of women political prisoners. On the day after the execution, authorities returned their daughter?s dead body to them along with a sum considered to be the alimony. Reports state that in order to lose their virginity, girls were forced to enter into a temporary marriage with men who were in charge of their prison. Otherwise it was feared that the executed prisoner would go to heaven because she was a virgin!" [...]