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Since 2001, the company has posted a series of gag products on its site, everything from the World’s Largest Remote Control Car, a standard-sized car with its own toy-like remote, to a Monolith Action Figure a la Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, a rectangular black “figurine” of the shapeless villain with absolutely no moving parts. The joke?
WITH an almost manic abruptness, the nation seemed, as Yeats once wrote, “all changed, changed utterly.” With the killing of four Kent State University students by Ohio National Guardsmen last week, dissent against the U.S.
The Nobel committee awarded the 2009 Peace Prize to President Barack Obama Friday in a prospective, premature accolade normally reserved for those who have accomplished considerable, tangible results in the pursuit of peace. To be sure, Obama has tried to advance the cause of peace
The decision to award President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts to “strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples” appears to have left some in the United States divided over whether non-tangible achievements are worthy of such an esteemed award. “So can anyone tell me how this man won the Nobel Peace Prize” iRepoter Katy Brown wondered, asking whether it had more to do with him becoming the first black U.S.