The Clever Shark

New York Press presents the 25 most loathsome New Yorkers. It’s not too surprising who ended up #1, or why…

James Gannon/Guckert pushes the envelope of fakeness once again. With all these revelations, I’m starting to think that there is no Gannon or Guckert, and that he’s just a figment of the collective imagination that thought it would be amusing for a prostitute to be associated with the Bush White House.

Billmon: the key to success in the press these days is… anal sex. Damn, I guess I’m never going to make it in the world of journalism!

Rev. Moon: world should abandon democracy, bow down to him. I was wondering just the other day whether Rev. Moon was as batshit-insane as everybody says… and it turns out that he is indeed.

Jerry Falwell is critically ill. I’m sure he’s going to find some way to blame it on “gays and feminists.”

When is a RFID chip not an RFID chip? when, by government fiat, it’s been renamed a ‘proximity’ or ‘contactless’ chip. That deserves a new entry in the Doublespeak dictionary!

In a fit of irony that’ll leave you dizzy, Tom DeLay agreed to not having doctors engage in extraordinary measures to keep his father alive 17 years ago. Of course he won’t talk about it because it’s a “private matter”.

Fans of techno music and CG will definitely want to see this new Chemical Brothers video. It’s the classic mix of a good tune and a great video…

Did you know that there’s a Squidblog? They have sites for everything these days!

The only way to be sure evidence exists is to plant it, as Sweden’s Anti-Piracy Bureau (APB) has recently found. It’s a bit like the allegations that Saddam had WMD’s — the US “knew” he did, because they were the ones who sold them to him…