For your reading/viewing enjoyment:
Conservapedia - It’s Wikipedia - with a conservative bias.
Former Congressman Bob Ney (R-OH) is going to prison today.
Rudy Giuliani to run for President of 9/11.
Keith Olbermann gives Condoleeza Rice a history lesson.
Rudy Giuliani - the political transvestite.
A giant multi-billion dollar industry threatens lawsuits against three dozen UNL students.
And don’t forget:
Yellow Dog University on March 31 @ UNO.
YDA’s Spring National Conference, hosted by NYD, May 18-20 @ the Regency Marriot in Omaha.
Stay warm, folks.
UPDATE: Elkhorn is now officially part of Omaha. Nature certainly has a sense of humor. After weeks of Elkhorn whining about how their streets won’t get plowed as quickly, we get hit with the biggest blizzard in a decade mere hours before the annexation is finalized.
Oh, and Happy 140th Birthday to Nebraska. Here’s a foot of snow. Have fun!
You might want to check out my piece on Conservapedia, which has a number of examples of its scholarship:
http://jonswift.blogspot.com/2007/02/conservapedia.html
Seriously, it’s like the conservatives have no sense of their own irony. Self-parody at its finest.
This entry on Bill Clinton is just delicious snark:
Or the article on the existence of unicorns? Seriously? Unicorns!?
What I love most about the site is that it is expressly biased - and yet claims Wikipedia is biased. Let’s be clear: as a quick and easy source of information, Wikipedia is great. As scholarly research, it’s awful, and no instructor in their right mind would accept it.
Oh, and Uncyclopedia kicks their ass in terms of sheer absurdity and detachment from reality… but at least they are trying to be absurd.
The following was published on the Smirking Chimp 2-28-07
“Mark my words!!! I’m going to say this while there is still
a modicum of free speech available, and while The Smirking
Chimp is still able to publish it’ web-site. Sometime between Memorial Day and the 4th of July, 2007, Bushco will
do the following: 1.Invade Iraq, the carrier groups are already there) and 2.Suspend the Constitution and declare
himself emperor for life. Our only hope is that the Generals
to say as we did in the mid and late 60s; HELL NO, WE WON’T
GO.
I’m a cynical bastard, but even I’m not that cynical. Bush has been amping up the rhetoric on Iran, and we should be very concerned about that, but declare himself emperor for life? You’re venturing beyond nutty conspiracy theories into complete “tinfoil hat” territory.