Category Archives: Soap Box

I Am Done With You Soccer

I knew that soccer was bullshit. Ever since my very first soccer practice where the main activity was running around a lake, I had my suspicions.  But not since my first (and last!) Tae Kwon Do lesson where they made us run around a circle backwards* have I seen such a demonstration of sports-related bullshititude. The Colorado [...]
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Dear, Dear, Palin.

Dear Palin, I hear you are upset about the fact that Family Guy made fun of your son.  The one with Down Syndrome.  Well, let me be not nearly the first to say I’m so sorry…that you didn’t just go fuck yourself. First of all, were you watching the show?  No.  You know why?  Because it’s not [...]
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Corporation Says It Will Run for Congress

No, This is not an Onion headline. We found it on the New York Times Online Business section. Please let this be an amazing hoax. Following the Supreme Court decision implicitly granting corporations the right to free speech (by determining that political spending is a kind of speech), a corporation has decided to take what [...]
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More Unnecessary Censorship

Menifee school officials remove dictionary over term ‘oral sex’ “Dictionaries have been removed from classrooms in southern California schools after a parent complained about a child reading the definition for “oral sex”. When a parent volunteering in her son’s classroom came across the word — she complained to the school’s principal about the explicit language, curriculum officials [...]
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High Plains Grifters

Before I proceed any further, I should qualify my rather harsh opinions by stating that they are entirely based on observations made in a small section of Fort Collins.  These observations and related assertions do not translate well to larger urban settings such as downtown Denver where I feel that most of the homelessness and [...]
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Matt Bors Comic

Original cartoon from Matt Bors.
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Obey, submit, consume, reproduce, die

Happy Buy Nothing Day! Buy Nothing Day is an international day of protest against mindless consumerism. Typically celebrated the Friday after American Thanksgiving in North America and the following day internationally, in 2009 the dates are November 27 and 28 respectively. It was founded by Vancouver artist Ted Dave and subsequently promoted by Adbusters magazine, based [...]
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