Thousands of Tea Party activists will descend on the nation's capital this weekend, as Glenn Beck launches his "Restoring Honor" rally to be held on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on the anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr's "I Have a Dream" speech. It's unclear why Glenn Beck is trying… Read full post »

The New York Times ran a pretty interesting Op/Ed the other day, officially putting the old Grey Lady in the category of people who think President Barack Obama is doing it wrong.

What's he doing wrong? Well, the response to the oil spill for one, but it's an indicator for some of… Read full post »

Reacting to complaints from parents that schools aren't doing enough to protect their children, the Department of Education banned growing up in public schools across the nation. The order was issued last night in a press statement and will be effective at the end of…

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Shaper of Wyrd Norse God Odin admitted today that he covered Iceland in a thick cloud of magma and ash after his investments in the country went belly up in 2008.  "I had a lot of money invested in Iceland.  When it went bankrupt I got mad, we… Read full post »

 

I'm one of those  kids who likes the idea of giving everybody health care, but not taxing me one cent.  If we can figure out a way to do that, great, but for the most part, it bugs me that I pay taxes for entitlements.

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At the stroke of midnight last night, President Obama revealed himself as Dark Sith of the Underworld and proceeded to eat all innocents and virgins passing by the White House. Republicans on the Hill were quoted by the Associated Press as saying, "we TOLD you not to pass health care reform."… Read full post »

When shipping items to a soldier like Darren Rogers, senders must read through a form that states what exactly you can't send to a soldier in a warzone.  There are the usual suspects--explosives, firearms, lives plants--but then there are those that have a religious taint to them.  

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The average Facebook user has 130 friends.  The average American will spend six complete days a month watching TV.  In the last quarter of 2008, Apple sold 22 million ipods and over 8 million iphones, meaning that Americans can now take the internet, their music collection, and even those… Read full post »

Congress is fighting back against that guy in that pirate hat, the FreeCreditReport.com guy, you know, the one working at the renaissance fair, or at the restaurant wearing flare, or in his girlfriend's basement lair. Yes, that one.

FreeCreditReport.com has been paying over a million dollars in fi… Read full post »

Snowmaggedon was never that clever, but the way it rolls off people's tongue in the mid-Atlantic would make you think they'd just discovered gift of gab. But Snowmageddon wasn't the only invention from the recent snow storms. Snowpocalypse was another word-meld that gained in popularity.

For…

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With the upcoming release of Bloom Energy's mind-blowing, life-altering fuel cell system that will bring our country's climate and energy crisis to an end, the Fourth Corner went looking for an explanation of what the hell a fuel cell is. We turned to our friend and contributor, Gene, who is a/… Read full post »

 

Here at the Fourth Corner we've discussed how horror movies are a reflection of our collective fears (see "Saw VI is just a metaphor for Osama Bin Laden"). If the spate of movies coming out in the next few months are also an indicator of our collective mood,… Read full post »

I picked up the paper this morning to find Tiger Wood's mug on the front page with the headline "We're All Ears." Apparently, el Tigre is going to apologize to the world for sleeping around on his wife.

To Tiger I say this: don't.

First, I could give a shit
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The list of assassinations has crept up over the past month, and they all seem to have one thing in common: Israel. While plausible deniability remains the country's best defense, it appears that the…

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The recent rise of Glenn Beck's renegade Tea Party (Taxed Enough Already) is a sign of a healthy and evolving government. Despite Tea Party rhetoric, and despite counterarguments from both parties, the apocalypse is not on the horizon, nor is the downfall of America. Quite the…

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As an American who served in Iraq and worked intelligence on the Afghanistan problem for a brief time, I still don't know where Marjah is.  I had to look it up.  While Marjah is an important geographic location--in the heart of Afghanistan's pashtun country, in the heart of Afghanistan's po… Read full post »

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will be on Capitol Hill today, discussing the Obama administrations broad plan to repeal the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy on homosexuals. Gates faces an uphill battle against increasingly raucous conservatives and increasingly timid democrats, all who… Read full post »

As news of another coordinated bomb attack comes on the day Ba'athist Chemical Ali is killed, Americans and Iraqis alike are wondering how insurgents can continue to outsmart millions in training and bomb detecting equipment.

The answer? Very, very easily.

The Iraqi government recently…

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We hear at the Fourth Corner have been playing a lot of SimCity lately, and if there is one thing that will knock your city off the top perch, it's spending too much money. Yes, putting in the Mayor's house and putting in those dozen…

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In an age when mergers and acquisitions happen right in front of Justice's blindfolded face, company brand names are becoming increasingly meaningless.

Northwest Airlines is no longer Northwest Airlines. Instead its Delta, though you wouldn't know that by looking at its website.

General Electric owns… Read full post »