No Maam

August 29th, 2010



No Maam

Originally uploaded by TaniaGail

This man is at a real rally wearing a shirt advertising a fictional political organization. Google it if you want to find out more. The tongue in cheek mysogeny seems less tongue in cheek when you wear this shirt to a rally that was demographically biased toward white men.

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A Man With a Sign

August 29th, 2010



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Originally uploaded by TaniaGail

I would love to sit down and have an intelligent conversation with this guy. Martin Luther King was a black man who enjoyed huge popularity when he was most active in a political movement. His detractors used hyperbole about where he stood on the political spectrum. The same thing is being done to Barrack Obama today. Actually any political stance other than conservatism that has a bad name is being attributed to Obama depending on which ones the sign makers know how to spell.

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I Like Turtles!

August 29th, 2010



Well?

Originally uploaded by TaniaGail

Sunglasses protect our eyes from UV damage. An added benefit is that they can prevent others from seeing into our soul.

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The Cost of Anonymity

July 18th, 2010



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Originally uploaded by Anonymous9000

The anonymity of ‘Anonymous’ had some advantages with regard to their efforts to gain widespread publicity about the negative aspects of scientology. This same anonymity prevents them from gaining any appreciable degree of trust from the mainstream.

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Twitter is a Dangerous Place for Scammy Diet Gurus

July 15th, 2010

I had never heard of Gillian McKeith until this morning. She is a Scottish TV star - here is a quote from her own website:

Gillian McKeith is the internationally acclaimed Holistic Nutritionist and presenter of You Are What You Eat hit Channel 4 series that took the nation by storm

She is a little bit extra famous, at least for today, because she had a weird hissy fit on Twitter.

There is no evidence of the debacle on her twitter account except for an easily refutable tweet implicitly denying that it is her twitter account. There is, of course, ample screen caps and links to cached pages.

Here is what happened in chronological order:

As an aside to the drama, the school that granted Gillian a “PhD” is now closed and is the subject of a page on Quackwatch.

Check out the Guardian for more…

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