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An Iraq Proposal

McSweeney's contributes to the debate:Here's what I propose for Iraq: Distribute assault weapons to every Iraqi man, woman, and adolescent with the aptitude to crook a trigger finger. After all, the...

Open Letter to the Powers That Be at NESN

Listen. Sox Appeal seems like an interesting idea. But, honestly, I don't need to sit and watch a half-hour's worth of desperate attempts to get laid. Hell, I get enough of that in my own goddam...

MySpace's Itchy Trigger Finger On Deleting Suspected Sex Offenders

With politicians breathing down MySpace's neck over the fact that some sex offenders might possibly be able to use MySpace (whether or not they're using it to commit a crime), MySpace has been very...

Game du Jour Deals: May 21 through May 27

Game du Jour is a "One Deal a Day" website for casual PC games. Every day of the week, GameDuJour.com sells one downloadable game at a steep discount. Every week Blogcritics Magazine will...

Lies Well Disguised: Your Agency Name Here

94 years ago, liar H.K. McCann launched his NYC ad agency with the slogan "Truth Well Told." That was a big fat lie. Advertising copywriter Copyranter brings you instances of advertising lies and the...

I Don't Wanna Be A Soldier Mama

This article shows how the Army is cracking down on deserters. But it also shows the effect of people who are deployed for a second time and why some don't want to go back, and why people go...

11 Ways To Drive Traffíc Away From Your Website

Why Web-Users Are So ImpatientWhile watching a Toronto Raptor basketball game I saw T.J. Ford, one of the fastest players in the league, rush down the court like a man possessed and proceed to throw...

The Knives Have It

Watching late night T.V. can be very entertaining. It?s a different brand of T.V. when it?s dark. As I turn the channel, I am yelled at, spoken to in several different languages, asked if I?m looking...

Bullet Witch DLC - Anyone Care?

Of all the Xbox 360 games to have their content bolstered by inexpensive downloadable content, it had to be Bullet Witch, the most amazingly average game ever released for the console. Atari has...

Mimic Windows' "Create New File" with Quicksilver

One of the things sorely missing from Mac OS X for Windows switchers is the ability to create a new file in Finder (like in Explorer, you can right-click and choose "New < X File Type" from the...