Anthony Bourdain, Detroit, and Feather Bowling What you can learn about Detroit by sitting at work and reading shit on the internet (and no, I'm not spelling it teh intranets, t'internets, interwebs, or any other way. My typing is so straight edge.) First up, Feather Bowling. (Taken from Wikipedia): Feather bowling is a game played with wooden balls shaped like wheels of cheese. The balls are rolled down a dirt or synthetic alley towards a feather sticking out of the dirt at the other end. The game was created by American Catey Traylor, who famously murdered magician Dyna-Mike's bird and then played a game of bowling with its feathers. And now here's a link to the Cadieux CafeI am going to have to go there sometime very soon! Anthony Bourdain took a trip through Detroit for his travel food show No Reservations and visited the Cadieux Cafe. Detroit. Add to that techno and house music.
Report: Area Woman Has Best Friends In Whole World | The Onion - America's Finest News Source NEW HAVEN, CT—A new report released Wednesday by a privately funded think tank revealed that local receptionist Amanda Berley, 31, has the best friends in the whole world. The report, which compared Berley's friends to a wide sampling of similar groups across multiple demographics, found the women to be superior in all aspects of friendship, including going out for cocktails after work, telling someone they are too good for that asshole anyway, and remembering birthdays even if the person didn't want to make a big deal out of it. "After months of intensive analysis, we can now determine conclusively that Amanda Berley's friends are indeed the greatest in the world," said Stephen Reynolds, spokesperson for the Fielding Institute. "These individuals are her girls. And according to our findings, all of them are the absolute best." "In fact, these women exhibit levels of support that go far beyond those displayed by any of the other friends observable anywhere on earth," Reynolds added.
Congress Gets In 12 Solid Hours Of Gridlocking Before Calling It A Day | The Onion - America's Finest News Source WASHINGTON—Exhausted but satisfied leaders from both parties came together Tuesday night to announce that Congress had successfully completed 12 solid hours of nonstop gridlocking, once again going above and beyond to needlessly prevent the nation from moving forward. In a marathon session that lawmakers proudly called "one of [their] least productive ever," each of the 535 members of the House and Senate gridlocked deep into the night to ensure that no bipartisan compromise could be reached, no laws intended to aid the American people could be passed, and no sense of national unity or progress could possibly be achieved. "There is nothing more satisfying than knowing you've just put in a full day of bringing our nation's legislative branch to a complete standstill," said House Speaker John Boehner, who like the vast majority of his colleagues worked without break throughout the day and night fostering political disharmony and rejecting the passage of crucial legislation.
Attempt To Recreate Incredible Night Out From Youth Works Perfectly | The Onion - America's Finest News Source MADISON, WI—An attempt by old college friends to relive a fun night out from more than 20 years ago went perfectly Friday, with no one involved experiencing the innate futility of trying to recapture the glory days of their youth, sources later confirmed. The group of former best friends—who met outside their old sophomore dorm, went to the Plaza Tavern, drank $2 pitchers of beer, and sang along to the 1990 Jane's Addiction song "Been Caught Stealing"—said they felt as hopeful and invincible as they did two decades earlier, and that at no point did any one of them stop to think that what they were doing was absolutely pathetic. "At first I wondered if an attempt to reclaim our former glory would force us to come to grips with the inevitable passage of time and the sad weight the intervening years has placed on each of us," said 42-year-old John Colvin, adding that the former classmates hardly talk anymore and lead completely different lives now. "But no, it was perfect.
Bernard Henri Levy > Israel and the Arab Spring (The Huffington Post, 04/26/2011) I’ve heard it said here and there that Israel may be « worried » about the wind of democracy blowing through the Arab world. I understand this apprehension. I know how, in at least two cases, that of Algeria in 1991 and then Gaza in 2006, free elections have produced the worst result. And I am all too conscious of the fact that, in this regard, Israel is not entitled to the least error in taking lightly the risk of seeing these Egyptian, Libyan, or, tomorrow, Syrian revolutions engender a world of increasing danger. Yet, being worried is one thing — one that demands lucidity, skepticism when it comes to lyrical illusions, and vigilance. But exaggerated caution, withdrawal, silent disapproval would be quite another — which would place the heirs of the great Zionist dream in an untenable position, one that would be unworthy of their history. But there is more than that. Suddenly, that changes everything.
Budget Mix-Up Provides Nation's Schools With Enough Money To Properly Educate Students | The Onion - America's Finest News Source WASHINGTON—According to bewildered and contrite legislators, a major budgetary mix-up this week inadvertently provided the nation's public schools with enough funding and resources to properly educate students. Sources in the Congressional Budget Office reported that as a result of a clerical error, $80 billion earmarked for national defense was accidentally sent to the Department of Education, furnishing schools with the necessary funds to buy new textbooks, offer more academic resources, hire better teachers, promote student achievement, and foster educational excellence—an oversight that apologetic officials called a "huge mistake." "Obviously, we did not intend for this to happen, and we are doing everything in our power to right the situation and discipline whoever is responsible," said House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan (R-WI), expressing remorse for the error. "I want to apologize to the American people. "And politicians will be adversely affected as well," Boehner said.
Has Obama Just Kicked Off Another Oil War -- This Time in Africa? | Environment November 8, 2011 | Like this article? Join our email list: Stay up to date with the latest headlines via email. On Friday, October 14, President Barack Obama announced he would be sending 100 Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) forces to Uganda to "remove from the battlefield" (meaning capture or kill) the leader of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), Joseph Kony. The LRA, whose horrific deeds have been have been well-documented by scores of human rights reports and the documentary film, Invisible Children, can best be described as a Christian cult militia engaged in violent armed rebellion against the Ugandan government, located primarily in northern Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and South Sudan. It gets worse. But is this the true motive for sending JSOC troops into the region? An African Scramble for Oil AFRICOM, though, did not come out of the blue and was years in the making before its realization.
Operation Web Tryp Operation Web Tryp was a United States Drug Enforcement Administration operation that ended on July 21, 2004 with the arrests of 10 persons. Its purpose was to investigate web sites suspected of distribution of unscheduled, unregulated tryptamines and phenethylamines of questionable legality. This trade in "grey market" drugs, which were not explicitly illegal but potentially prosecutable as drug analogs, became known as the "research chemical" trade; a euphemism for the fact that the chemicals were being sold for industrial or academic research rather than human consumption.[1] Five websites were involved in Operation Web Tryp:[2] www.racresearch.comwww.duncanlabproducts.comwww.pondman.nuwww.americanchemicalsupply.comwww.omegafinechemicals.com One of these websites, pondman.nu, was allegedly taking in U.S. $20,000 per week and grossed $700,000 before being shut down. Legality[edit] See also[edit] References[edit]