It is time for another installment of “Pictures of Kanye, Words of Noam”, where we look at pictures of Kanye West and read the words of Noam Chomsky. Because it’s Friday. The end of the work week. Yep.
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Wow, that is a mouthful of a title. First off, I just want to point out that Jack Layton’s death trended worldwide yesterday. I thought that was nice. Considering that the London Riots couldn’t hold a top spot in Google Trends while they were happening says a lot about people’s browsing habits. It’s good to see people actually taking notice to a pretty a major death even though it didn’t directly impact their own country. Good on you world. Good on you.
Of course, there was an earthquake today. You can tell because 5 out of the top 10 Google searches in America are earthquake related. I recommend clicking that link to see photos of the devastation. Just kidding, it’s just a series of photos that largely centers around people standing around looking slightly concerned that they’ve been forced to leave their offices in the middle of the day and maybe they didn’t lock their workstations and maybe 
their boss didn’t evacuate and has discovered their browsing history mostly consists of craigslist and reddit. Wouldn’t know what that’s like. The rest of the people in those photos seem to be enjoying the afternoon off. I also like that the LA Times is reporting on the 5.9 quake the way Sports Illustrated would report on your kid’s soccer game this Saturday. “Pssh, amateurs.”
Libya! I can’t believe that I wrote about this conflict 6 months ago and only now, in August, is it coming to a conclusion. This is a little more newsworthy than an earthquake. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Remember how on Friday I mentioned that there were some crazy (or maybe not) accusations flying around about Gaddafi having ordered the Lockerbie bombing?
Well, I’d like to add one more accusation to the list of crimes Gaddafi may have to answer for: the attempted murder of Doctor Emmett Brown.
In 1985, Doc Brown was contacted by the Libyans to construct a nuclear weapon. Brown, clever man that he is, duped the Libyans with an empty bomb casing made up of old pinball machine parts, instead using the plutonium to power his latest invention, a time machine. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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Alright, before we start things off, Muammar Gaddafi, Moammar Gadhafi and Muammar el-Qaddafi are the same guy, and he’s Libyan, apparently there are so many Arabic dialects that the pronunciation of his name can vary, and once the pronunciation is different, the Anglicization of the name gets all fucked up, but yeah, same dude, don’t be fooled by your news sources.
Fifth Third Bank Accused of Fraud, Robbed and Still Leader in Financial Gains
Ok, full disclosure, I have no idea why this bank is trending as a search, it doesn’t really seem like much of a hot topic to me, but whatever, I’ll see what I can find out.
This guy robbed a Fifth Third bank in Ohio on Wednesday, standard procedure of handing the teller a note, getting some money, and leaving (hasn’t he even seen Dark Knight? There are WAY cooler ways to rob banks at your disposal these days). THIS can’t be what people are interested, a friend of mine is a bank teller and this happened to her a few weeks ago, her bank didn’t become a hot topic. Slow news day in Ohio I suspect. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
