http://www.flumesday.com Tue, 24 Jun 2008 15:07:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "Kobe, Tell Me How My Ass Tastes" by Shaquille O'Neal on FunnyOrDie.com http://www.flumesday.com/2008/06/24/shaq-kobe-tell-me-how-my-ass-tastes/ One of the greatest stand-up comedians of all time, George Carlin, passed away at 71 today in Los Angeles. While George might not have gotten better with age, his unique brand of comedy became more meaningful to me as I got older. I hoped that he'd continue to ... http://www.flumesday.com/2008/06/23/george-carlin-dead-at-71/ It's like India curbing curry, Thailand banning Buddhism or Australia outlawing disingenuously laid back blokes from saying "no worries." Instead, it's China, cleansing itself of one of its most integral entities: the fireworks. On many a morning in my days in Shanghai, I would wake up thinking I ... http://www.flumesday.com/2008/06/12/beijing-bans-fireworks-ahead-of-games/ Just as the world began to see the Chinese for something other than industrious, robotic Communists and we're reminded that the Chinese people cry and mourn like the rest of us, we're also reminded that the Chinese like to be industrious, robotic Communists. A mere 9 days after a ... http://www.flumesday.com/2008/05/22/chinese-olympians-unshaken-by-quake/ It's funny. I knew Chinese President Hu Jintao could sing but I never knew he could play ping pong. Guy's a table tennis machine. Look at the way he holds his paddle Chinese-style (I guess that makes sense) and takes on not one but two opponents. George ... http://www.flumesday.com/2008/05/15/hus-the-man-gettin-his-pong-on/ Compared to the chaos that gripped Seoul over the weekend as the cursed Olympic torch came to town, South Korea's neighbor to the north executed its torch ceremonies without a hitch -- no shouting, no fighting and surely no pro-Tibet protest. In North Korea, where political dissent is as ... http://www.flumesday.com/2008/04/29/olympic-torch-run-not-a-bright-and-colorful-day-in-both-koreas/ Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfeld, the activist ice cream makers known as Ben and Jerry, may give the Chinese government a bellyache when the Olympic torch passes through San Francisco next week. The guys who brought us Chunky Monkey and Cherry Garcia are now bringing attention to the Chinese government's ... http://www.flumesday.com/2008/03/31/darfur-heath-bar-crunch-ben-and-jerry-take-on-china/ The first photos from inside the new Yankee Stadium hit the web yesterday. And it looks pretty amazing. The new stadium, which some have dubbed "The House the A-Rod Built" (dry heave) is set to open in 2009 and offers season tickets from $100 a seat in the ... http://www.flumesday.com/2008/03/27/new-house-that-ruth-built-built/ State media in China called Tuesday's torch-lighting ceremony in Olympia, Greece "a perfect start on the road to gold." If by "perfect start," they meant utter chaos, then yeah, great start guys. Or maybe the "road to gold" is some hellish unpaved pathway that leads off a cliff into a ... http://www.flumesday.com/2008/03/25/let-the-torch-relay-begi-ah-shit-this-again/ Good news swept through China on Tuesday as the State Department released its controversial annual list of the worlds biggest human rights abusers. To everyone's surprise, for the first time in three years, the Middle Kingdom didn't grace the top ten violator list. The 2007 top ten worst countries ... http://www.flumesday.com/2008/03/12/china-falls-off-us-rights-violator-top-10/