Absurdistan

Source: blogcritics.org --- 52 days ago
A cartoonish satire amplifies the most salient revelations from a non-fictional and nuanced consideration of the political and social climate in the Middle East. A year or so ago, I read From Beirut to Jerusalem by Thomas L. Friedman in an attempt to get my head around the endless conflagrations that dominate the Middle East. At the same time, I was also reading Absurdistan by Gary Shteyngart, a comic satire about a former Soviet state that fakes a civil war in an attempt to capture the West’s... ...

Source: rosinstrument.com --- 47 days ago
Absurdistan Weekend Update #3: Profuse Proof the Left has left the ... - Intellectual Conservative. Now you can self-censor your Internet input using a content filter like a good little Gore-monkey (see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil). ... ...

Source: www.intellectualconservative.com --- 32 days ago
More from Bob Stapler. ...

Source: www.intellectualconservative.com --- 5 days ago
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Source: www.intellectualconservative.com --- 11 days ago
The world according to Bob Stapler. ...

Source: www.intellectualconservative.com --- 25 days ago
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Source: www.intellectualconservative.com --- 52 days ago
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Source: kultaz.com --- 52 days ago
KultAz: İyulun 11-də məşhur alman rejissoru Fayt Helmerin quruluşunda lentə alınmış “Absurdistan” filminin Bakıda premyerası keçiriləcək. Filmin süjet xəttini Asiya və Avropa arasında, naməlum bir yerdə sehrli Absurdistan kəndində baş verən hadisələr təşkil edir. Kəndin ən böyük dərdi su problemidir. Kəndin qadınları üçün isə ən böyük problem vəziyyəti dəyişmək üçün barmaqlarını belə tərpətməyən tənbəl kişilərdir. ...

Source: www.fridnet.com --- 58 days ago
[updated 18 months later] I started writing this post on Jan 9, 2007. I have not taken a chance to finish the post since then, so what value are my comments on the book then? I can only say that I have thought of the book a number of times, and always in positive light. Perhaps [...] ...

Source: info.michael-simons.eu --- 21 days ago
Behold, here comes the iPhone app all retards have been waiting for: I Am Rich. Actually, i think it’s kinda funny, although i guess some people won’t get the joke. Edit: Oh and by the way, it seems, you’re never alone as the iPhone keeps iphoning ihome. ipuke, iguess. Share This ...

Source: info.michael-simons.eu --- 28 days ago
This post over there at TUAW.com boils down to one thing: Turn your expensive phony toy off to save battery. Yeah, that’s great! Share This ...

Source: theglobalbuzz.typepad.com --- 49 days ago
The caption reads: Paramilitary policemen on assault vehicles take part in an anti-terrorism drill in Jinan, Shandong province [China] July 2, 2008. China will have nearly 100,000 commandos, police and members of the military on standby up to and during... ...

Source: www.sueddeutsche.de --- 98 days ago
Ein enthusiastischer Lazio-Fan in Rom, Drive-In-Nasenhaar-Entfernung in Istanbul und ein werdender Vater in Beirut. SZ-Korrespondenten berichten Kurioses von ihren Taxifahrten in aller Welt. mehr... ...

Source: blogs.tnr.com --- 11 days ago
Kevin Drum thinks the war in Georgia was a net loss for Putin because "the countries on Russia's border are more firmly in our camp now than they were even before the war." I'm not sure how to tally everything up, but I'd add that the war pushed Georgia into America's popular consciousness for probably the first time ever. It's been transformed from an obscure Absurdistan to a country with a compelling narrative. That alone seems like a change in Tblisi's favor. -- Barron YoungSmith   ...

Source: www.intellectualconservative.com --- 60 days ago
Proof Positive the Left has left the Reason Reservation. ...

Source: opendotdotdot.blogspot.com --- 102 days ago
One of the great things about the blogosphere is the scope it provides for the unfettered rant – a piece where the author is totally and utterly out of his or her pram. I should know: as a blogger, I've penned a few myself. So I was delighted to come across a fine example , which begins thus: Another anti-Microsoft (MSFT) front group has emerged in favor of “free and open standards,” hyping what it calls the Hague Declaration and making some absurd connection to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The propagandists, partially funded by publicly traded companies, have a little trouble describing what that term “free and open standards” means (or even using it consistently) but the group has no trouble indicating its political stripes. Unbelievably it calls itself Digistan, apparently to indentify with the fascist terrorists based in countries and regions using the Farsi-based suffix “stan.” All of these front groups percolate around about two dozen individuals, mostly European. The vast left-wing conspiracy of George Soros works around the edges of their mostly web-site-only organizations. But there is a profit motive. Some seem to exist to raise money from public companies in order to hold conferences at excellent venues. Others run consulting companies to advise governments how to follow “free and open standards” or law firms that write licenses that follow “free and open standards.” Only if these lefties could be time wa ...

Source: forecasthighs.com --- 101 days ago
Here’s an interesting twist to the non-enforcement of the no-smoking in public places law. On Thursday night I was at the Foster’s Bar on the corner of Shlomo Hamelech and Frishman in Tel-Aviv, a small, intimate bar with an upmarket vibe. It was my housemate’s birthday party [about ten of us] and there were about 40 [...] ...

Source: schizoblog.net --- 9 days ago
Suomi on digitaalisissa päätöksenteoissa todellinen Absurdistan. Olemme saaneet lukea, että maassamme nettivälitteinen musiikkikauppa (siis mp3:n myynti) ei ota tuulta purjeisiinsa. Sitä varten oikein perustetaan työryhmä. Valitettavasti asian asiantuntijoita ei ole pyydetty lainkaan paikalle. Sillä tosiasialla, että kotimaisten mediatalojen nettipalvelut ovat tolkuttoman huonoja ja jäljessä yleismaailmallista kehitystä, ei ole mitään merkitystä. Kunhan peiliin ei missään nimessä pidä [...] ...

Source: detroit.big-city.org --- 11 days ago
Absurdistan Weekend Update 8: Liberals Heroically Waagign the War. Intelleictual Conservative. New York Times. Detroit Free Press. Ad wars: Obama, McCain. Britney Detroit Free Press. Miller: The campaign gtes wierdc Milford Daily News. Limited Overshore Drilling, Tax Inecntives. Nation Builder. ...