Cheap Blogging Crutch 09.15

French unease at telecom suicides
The French are getting worried over a disturbing number of suicides in the telecom industry. I'm saying they should tell us what exactly it is they're doing to cause all these suicides and tell us so we can replicate it, preferably in the upper management of the telecom companies that were so eager to allow the government to spy on us without warrants. After that the French need to get to work on transferring the suicide culture over to the banking and financial industries. Try to have a brief worked up by the G-20, Nicolas.

Michael Moore: I May QUIT Documentaries
*gasp* But who will right wingers reflexively point to as rebuttal when someone on the left points out that Rush, Hannity, and Beck are batshit insane? Al Franken is a Senator and Bill Maher is relegated to pay cable and has a nasty habit of criticizing his own side. Now who will come to represent all that is evil about the left...besides it's politicians? I think I smell an opening for Keith Olbermann.

Domestic violence is a "pre-existing condition"?
Who says we need health care reform? I mean just because 8 states treat getting the shit beat out of you by a spouse and a "pre-existing condition" that you need to pay the medical expense for yourself or that half of the insurers use domestic violence as an indicator of how much coverage to allow and what prices to charge, doesn't mean we need to do anything about it. It's just smart business.

Interior Launches Climate Strategy
The first major salvo of the Obama Interior Department is under way and their plan to combat global warming is...uh...a co-ordination council...and...eight...regional response centers. Well, at least that means we'll get progress reports on our global demise. At least it's a start. They are at least acknowledging climate change, which is a massive leap forward from the Bush Administration. Plus they've stopped the burning tire pits and endangered animal cookouts that the Interior Dept. used to engage in. Progress.

Speaking At 9/12 Rally, FreedomWorks Lies, Inflates Attendance By Over 2,000 Percent
Well, for a movement phonily drummed up by soulless mega-corporations in order to protect the status quo and spread the craziest conspiracies about the President, Democrats, and reform possible, I mist say that only lying about their attendance by a factor of 2000% is an ethical step up. They're even circulating a photo from a larger decade old Promise Keepers march in an attempt to inflate the numbers. God, was it too much to ask that they circulate a photo of the Million Man March?

Hugo Boss Acknowledges Link to Nazi Regime
This is not newsworthy in any way, but I found it out yesterday and it blew my mind for some reason. Did you know that Hugo Boss not only supplied Nazi uniforms for the SS, brown shirts for the SA storm troopers, and Hitler Youth uniforms and might have helped design them?