Aug

13

Good Ruck at the Orympics

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Another attempt at humor has gone horribly awry. The Spanish men’s basketball team (featuring none other then Laker Pau Gasol) decided to wish the Americans some luck at the 2008 Bejing Olympics by doing a 1940’s impersonation of the stereotypical Asian. There’s nothing that we at TWB like more than making fun of stereotypes, but seriously, what frontal lobed-challenged PR person decided this picture was a good idea? It’s one thing to do something stupid and have it caught on a cell phone and then posted on YouTube, but this actually involved planning and thought. It’s baffling that in this day and age things like this still occur. Did they actually think this wouldn’t create controversy, or was that their goal? Either way, it was poorly executed. If you’re going to make fun of Asians there are certainly better ways to do it than to resort to the “slant eye” cliché. For instance, have you ever noticed that the Chinese seem to be either freakishly tall (ie. Yao Ming) or Verne Troyer-sized (like their women’s gymnastics team, but they’re like eight years old so I guess that’s okay)?

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Aug

4

Bye Bye Brett (we wish)

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Dear Brett,

Thanks for the memories. Now go away.

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Jun

20

No Duh! Another Black Eye for the Legal System

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Can we all agree that the frivolous lawsuit thing in the U.S. is getting out of control? Seriously, we’ve become nothing but a society of greedy people who won’t take accountability for anything and simply want to blame others for their own ineptitude and stupidity.

In short, a taser gun manufacturer got sued because “the company failed to properly warn users that its product could be dangerous, and even lethal…” Click here to read the whole story.

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Jun

15

I Miss My MTV

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When MTV first premiered over 25 years ago, it was ground breaking. MTV was revolutionary. It was edgy and iconographic. MTV would not just air music videos, but it would legitimize the youth movement and create an entire generation of followers who knew that this was a station made just for them. I was of that generation. I would spend countless hours watching, listening and living MTV.

How the mighty have fallen.

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