Proverbial

Cisco says (.br) that Milton Friedman Day is one holiday that’ll never be set by the government. That may be so, but truth is there’ll be plenty of fitting celebrations throughout the world.
Meanwhile, with the Saginaw Spirit’s win over the Oshawa Generals, the Canadian city must be making preparations for the imminent Stephen Colbert Day. [...]

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South Carolina state Senator to the movie industry: let us censor your scripts and movies, or don’t apply for state money. Quite a reasonable proposition, when you think about it. For starters, it seems to be legal. And also, the only thing it might actually accomplish is to prevent moviemakers from applying for the incentive. [...]

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The late Paulo Francis (.br), one of the most intelligent and sarcastic conservative pundits in our country’s history, once said that “the left is incompatible with those who shower every day. The best anti-communist propaganda is to let communists talk”. He should know, since he had been a trotskist for a good part of his [...]

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Today’s “Human Nature” column on Slate brings attention to a piece on the New York Times about the effect of high definition video on the porn industry. What’s interesting, though, is that while he goes on to link to three past columns on similar topics, William Saletan seems oblivious to the fact that the same [...]

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An uncle of mine, a Worker’s Party (PT) loyalist and pretty much what you’d call a rabid leftist, sends me yet another diatribe by a communist against Brazil’s “neoliberal” MSM. The author, Ronaldo Carmona, is a member in Brazil’s Communist Party’s (PCdoB) International Relations Comission, and writes for the party’s website, Vermelho.org (which translates to [...]

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In typical fashion, a city councillor in Belo Horizonte - capital of Minas Gerais state - is proposing a statute (.br) regulating reasonable behaviour in movie theaters. Under it, movie trailers and advertising would be limited to a maximum of 15 minutes, theaters would be forbidden to change its programming less than 24 hours in [...]

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Slashdot might have jumped the gun a few days ago, but what was then an exaggeration is now reality: all backbone networks in Brazil have been notified by a São Paulo court to either shut down access to all instances of Daniela Cicarelli’s video on YouTube, or either block the site entirely.
So far, except for [...]

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With nothing better to do, tonight I caught myself watching The Peacemaker, and it got me wondering two things: why, on Earth, did Nicole Kidman stop being a redhead; and wouldn’t some smaller and more remote town than New York be a better location for the UN building?
I mean, it’s one problem after another: I [...]

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In the last 24 hours, accounts have been popping up all over the Brazilian blogosphere about Brasil Telecom - one of the country’s largest ISPs - blocking access to YouTube. The story has been picked up by Boing Boing again, and they provide some help for those whose access is being blocked. A friend of [...]

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This has got to be the most ridiculous moment in the history of sport:

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