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Tricia Walsh-Smith goes ballistic with Google & the spammers!

She was famous with her divorce videos and this is more like "What the F***... more

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The discriminated West Virginians

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Why Octomom is a Genius

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Jamie's Moan Minute: Jade Goody and the Media

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I Hate Temping

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All-Star Celebrity Rant

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Christian Bale Goes Ballistic

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Christian Bale caught on tape throwing a fit on the set of "Terminator: Salvation”

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Obesity News Overload

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5 things I hate about Current.com

Don't get me wrong, Current is a great idea, and for the most part it's a good alternative news site with interesting articles and such. But there are some things that drive me crazy about the site. Here's a list of them:

#1: Rampant Environmentalism/technophobia
It's not the environmentalism itself, it's the blind support of it in it's most drastic forms by the majority of currenters, regardless of it's effect on progress or personal life, the environment comes first. The US is in economic turmoil, yet somehow obscure species going extinct (due to failure to adapt, which is called "Natural Selection" if I remember correctly) makes the front page. One doesn't dare say they eat meat unless they're prepared for an onslaught of posts condemning this "archaic and barbaric" practice. What's this? A new military technology? I've seen people condemning an automatic tourniquet because it was created for military use, I kid you not. Whats this? A breakthrough in robotics or genetic engineering? It's the evil corporations trying to control us! Run for your lives!

#2: Celebrity Gossip
This is just despicable. People dying all over the world from famine and warfare, governments closing in on their people, technology advancing at breakneck speeds, and somehow the latest offhand remark by Angelina Jolie or photos of some strung-out ex-pop star end up on the front page? People who post this crap should be ashamed that they mindlessly put up this voyeuristic prolefeed because their lives are so boring they're more interested in those of "famous" people. Go die in a fire.

#3: Tinfoil Hats
UFO sightings, paranormal drek, crackpot theories, fluoride is incredibly toxic and shouldn't be put in the water (even though you've been drinking fluoridated water for years now and you have yet to die or submit to government mind control), paranoid superstitions, and the constant assertion of massive corporate conspiracies. Perhaps a grain of truth to some of these, but not nearly enough credible evidence to believe it as rabidly and blindly as some people here do.

#4: Business isn't just bad, it's evil
Making money is evil. Capitalism only causes misery. Every large corporation on earth is inherently evil, bent on world domination and cash. Don't buy anything ever. It will solve world hunger, AIDS, and cure poverty. Or so Current's inhabitants would say. They never have an alternative to capitalism ready when I ask them, but currenters are constantly bitching about it and blaming all of the evils of society on the exchange of goods and services for money. I've even had people suggest the barter system to me. Sure, that works great in the post apocalyptic wastelands, but money was created because carrying pieces of paper, metal, and electronic data is a hell of a lot easier than carrying around livestock and sacks of grain.

#5: Annoying Typing Habits...
...Make me want to stab people in the face.
Example 1: HAY GUYZ CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR AWESOEM LOLOLOL!!111
Example 2: People.... who post.... like this.... deserve no less..... than.... being stabbed in the face....
Example 3: who needs punctuation srsly guys i see no real need for it wow i'm hungry has anyone seen the new star trek trailer punctuate your sentences or i will stab you in the face

Well kids, that's all for today. Oh yeah, feel free to hate things. It's okay, you don't always have to be politically correct. You don't have to be so open-minded to everything all the time, you can express your dislike for certain people or beliefs. Do you not like it? Then don't pretend you're okay with it. as the great band KMFDM says, "Free your hate!"

PS: #6: Hipsters.
I don't like them. They're bloody annoying. Scene Kids are even worse.Don't get me wrong, Current is a great idea, and for the most part it's a... more

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Tabloid Hell

Here is my rant on why Britain is starting to become "Tabloid Hell"... more

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Pain In The Ass

Presenting part 1 of Pain in the Ass. 5 years in the making, Pain in the Ass is the... more

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Audacious Aunnie's Adventures: My $1 nightmare

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Kirk on Sulu

Shatner rants about not being invited to former co-star George Takai's wedding.... more

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We have been translated...

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Gremlins at Burning Man?

They're small. They're dangerous. But do they bestow magical powers? ...

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Change, Damn It!

In a poetic style all his own, Shihan rants about the concept of change in... more

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Why Albums Used To Matter

What studying Radiohead (and licking pieces of vinyl) can teach us about the future of... more

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Rant in your underwear

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She won't go easy

We are locked at the hip to Hillary Clinton, who won't stop her manic tarantella until her party whirls into ruins.

"She Came to Stay." That was the American title of Simone de Beauvoir's first book, a 1943 roman à clef about a manipulative and self-absorbed young woman who saps the energy and willpower of her admirers and plunges them into the existential abyss.

As a candidate running a close second, Hillary would normally have every right to complete the primary process, which runs into early June. Calls for her to drop out of the race began months ago and were certainly premature. But at this point, even with strong wins in Appalachia, Hillary has no true rationale for her candidacy, other than her inflamed gender and her putative Washington "experience" -- which has yet to produce a tangible legislative achievement. Her persistence is now keyed to her hope (chillingly close to a curse) that her rival will make a major gaffe or be besmirched by some unknown past scandal. And her message maliciously undermines the presumptive nominee by targeting his presumed weakness in the general election.

Many commentators and Democratic functionaries are prophesying Hillary's graceful withdrawal by mid-June. Is there anything in the Clintons' tawdry history to support such a thesis? Why wouldn't they play smiley-face rope-a-dope now and smash-mouth alley-and-ambush fisticuffs right to the bitter end -- meaning the convention in August? It's now or never for Ms. Hill.

Republican operatives have been salivating for Hillary to be the nominee. Her vainglorious claim to have been fully "vetted" is ludicrous. She and her husband left a mountain of manure in Little Rock and Washington that hasn't even begun to be thrown. The mainstream media, despite its tilt toward Obama, has been amazingly protective of the Clintons during this campaign. Where were the chronologies of the voluminous Clinton scandals that voters (especially young ones) needed to evaluate Hillary's professional judgment and character? That the conservative Washington Times has now begun to make document drops about Hillary's stonewalling and duplicity (such as over the Rose Law Firm billing records) suggests that Republicans have concluded her candidacy is kaput.

Obama is the right person at the right time for the presidency. Where Hillary divides and sows bitterness, Obama wants to unite and heal. It is a project that all Americans of good will should wish to succeed.

Meanwhile, Hillary's flying of the feminist flag has become much more ostentatious as her campaign wanes. Sexism will inevitably be the lurid postmortem apologia for why she failed to break the ultimate glass ceiling. Never mind her faults, limitations and dizzy-making multiple personality disorder as a candidate -- or her depressingly unfeminist professional attachment to an alpha male who may be the real reason she won the votes of many working-class white men.

Hillary has certainly given a blast of artificial resuscitation to male-bashing paleo-feminism, which is back with a vengeance. The blogosphere is awash with accusations of "traitor" against women who have the temerity to vote for Obama.We are locked at the hip to Hillary Clinton, who won't stop her manic tarantella... more

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