International Whatever Luxo-Truxo Fiascomobile

IMG_0357, originally uploaded by conradh.

Yes, it's a luxury conversion of a semi truck. These were funny a few years ago and now they're completely hilarious.

Hey, you know that Rich Santelli rant?

You know, the one that's being passed around in email, the one your dad wants you to watch, the "chicago tea party" thing?

It's poorly concealed astroturf from the usual billionaires. Just so you know.

EDIT: It appears that the Playboy article, which has now been pulled from their site, was at a minimum poorly researched and may have been slanderous. The Koch connection has not been proved. Please see my later entry.

Delicious LiveJournal Links for 2-28-2009

• Backstabber: Is Rick Santelli High On Koch? - The Playboy Blog
  What we discovered is that Santelli's "rant" was not at all spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign
  (tags: usa politics gop republicans santelli astroturf)
   
• Salim Ismail Discusses Singularity University : Open Education
  Area rich nerds make a whole curriculum about stuff they think is cool. Actual world ignored. Prizes for everyone, and special hats!
  (tags: failure no christwhatanasshole education nerds singularity)
   
• Bobby Jindal and Kenneth the Page in 2012 | Boy Golly We Sure Want to be President!!!!
  Our daddy always told us that bees were God's way of showing us he hated witches. We think it's high time someone investigated the bee-dieoff/witch connection!
  (tags: usa ha politics)