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November 28th, 2006
While WFME is completely unpolitical, we couldn’t turn down five minutes with Iran’s man of the moment.
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, both complicated on his own and in the spelling of his name, has gained great press since the United States went to war in the Middle East, and is known for his hard-lined and opinionated thoughts on a variety of subjects including Israel, the United States, nuclear weapons and much much more.
Well today, thanks to WFME being granted this imaginary interview, we peel back the layers and find out even more about the man.
WFME: “Good day, Mr. Ahmadinejad.”
Ahmadinejad: “Yes, thank you.”
Posted under Imaginary Conversation, Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Politics. | 8 Comments »
November 7th, 2006
Time to get those voting shoes on.
For if you live in the United States, today represents the biggest, most important, most crucial event all year next to straw-delivery day (the day you get delivered your massive palate of restaurant-grade drinking straws). Yet despite the importance and significance of voting, some Americans may forget to vote, disregard the process or end up eating potato skins at T.G.I.Friday’s instead. And in my opinion, it’s because voting doesn’t seem that exciting or engaging.
That’s why I’d like to offer up five new ingenious ways to make voting the most exciting experience ever.
Posted under Decision 2006, Ingenious Ways, Politics, Voting. | 5 Comments »
August 6th, 2005
fil·i·bus·ter n. The use of obstructionist tactics, especially prolonged speechmaking, for the purpose of delaying legislative action. An instance of the use of this delaying tactic.
Usage: The Congressman from New York, hoping to delay the passing of an abhorrent piece of legistature, filibustered for over 12 hours, discussing the issue at hand, along with other subjects unrelated to the current proposed law.
It seems, Congress is using my words as their filibuster.
In just the last five days, WFME has received over 150 unique visits from Congress (house.gov) and there is only one obvious reason why. Currently, there must be some kind of legislature that our representatives do not want to see get passed. But there’s a problem, because they just don’t have the votes necessary to strike it down. What can they do? What is their way out?
Posted under Politics, Web Traffic. | 17 Comments »
May 31st, 2005
Don’t tell me politics and food don’t go together.
The fact is this: just like Stalin took control of the Soviet Union and turned that country into a true economic and social power based on harsh control and political intimidation, so too has potato salad done to Memorial Day and other holiday side dishes. By the time Stalin was done working over the USSR, he had created a single-minded power. So too, has potato salad.
To illustrate my heady point, let me ask you a question. If you were going to take one side dish to a BBQ, which side dish would you take? Most of you would say potato salad. Sure, some of you would say cole slaw or maybe baked beans, but really — who are we kidding?
Posted under Not-So-Politics, Politics, Potato Salad. | 10 Comments »
May 16th, 2005
Let me set the scene.
There’s currently a TV commercial running on California TV. It’s a political commercial that stars Arnold Schwarzenegger. He’s sitting at a lunch table along with a bunch of different ethnic citizens, bags of chips in the background at a lunch counter, and he’s dressed in a tie. And he’s talking…
“Do you know that for every dollar that the state takes in, the legislators spend one-dollar ten? And they can’t fix the problem, because they created it.”
We see a shot of an Asian woman, a red-headed caucasian woman and a white guy in a button down shirt all looking and listening like they’re really concentrating.
Posted under Celebrities, Politics, Television. | No Comments »
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