Links Thursday: Funny Stuff
Aug. 20th, 2009 10:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
coyotesuspectI found my eighth grade school picture today and, guess what guys, apparently I haven't changed at all since I was thirteen! Every member of my family said I look exactly the same as I did five years ago.
*sigh*
Here, have some humor in your life:
How Hillary Won and Other Unwritten Campaign Victory Stories
Slate, November 2008
"Mike Huckabee's victory can only be called miraculous."
Tongue-in-cheek article that brings back some familiar faces from the primaries and posits how they could have the won the 2008 presidential election. God, I miss the campaign season.
6 Insane Discoveries that Science Can't Explain
Cracked.com, December 2008
"We like to feel superior to the people who lived centuries ago, what with their shitty mud huts and curing colds by drilling a hole in their skulls. But we have to give them credit: They left behind some artifacts that have left the smartest of modern scientists scratching their heads."
Both hilarious AND enlightening. Fair warning: Once you wander onto Cracked.com, it'll be awhile before you manage to escape.
What is the Monkeysphere
Cracked.com, September 2007
"What do monkeys have to do with war, oppression, crime, racism and even e-mail spam? You'll see that all of the random ass-headed cruelty of the world will suddenly make perfect sense once we go Inside the Monkeysphere."
An internet classic. The Monkeysphere is one of those pieces that manages to articulate- intelligently and humorously- something everyone knows, but very few people can put into words.
Theory of International Politics and Zombies
Foreign Policy, August 2009
*sigh*
Here, have some humor in your life:
How Hillary Won and Other Unwritten Campaign Victory Stories
Slate, November 2008
"Mike Huckabee's victory can only be called miraculous."
Tongue-in-cheek article that brings back some familiar faces from the primaries and posits how they could have the won the 2008 presidential election. God, I miss the campaign season.
6 Insane Discoveries that Science Can't Explain
Cracked.com, December 2008
"We like to feel superior to the people who lived centuries ago, what with their shitty mud huts and curing colds by drilling a hole in their skulls. But we have to give them credit: They left behind some artifacts that have left the smartest of modern scientists scratching their heads."
Both hilarious AND enlightening. Fair warning: Once you wander onto Cracked.com, it'll be awhile before you manage to escape.
What is the Monkeysphere
Cracked.com, September 2007
"What do monkeys have to do with war, oppression, crime, racism and even e-mail spam? You'll see that all of the random ass-headed cruelty of the world will suddenly make perfect sense once we go Inside the Monkeysphere."
An internet classic. The Monkeysphere is one of those pieces that manages to articulate- intelligently and humorously- something everyone knows, but very few people can put into words.
Theory of International Politics and Zombies
Foreign Policy, August 2009
"If zombies actually existed, an attack by them would lead to the collapse of civilisation unless dealt with quickly and aggressively. That is the conclusion of a mathematical exercise carried out by researchers in Canada."
This may only be funny if you, like me, are into IR. It's a look at how different theories of international relations, from liberalism to neoconservatism, would deal with a zombie menace.
Enjoy!
