Day: February 21, 2011

Get civil, motherf@%kers

The University of Arizona created the National Institute for Civil Discourse on Monday, “a nonpartisan center for debate, research, education and policy generation regarding civility in public discourse.”

To prove its bipartisan credentials, the newly created think-tank will be chaired by former U.S. presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, who each famously promoted civility by trading arms to Iranians to fund guerrilla wars in South America and giving long, uncomfortable hugs, respectively.

Uganda in the house

If you’ve been following world events that don’t involve Justin Bieber, then you’ve probably noticed that now is not the best time to be a dictator in the Middle East or Africa.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, who has been in power since 1986, isn’t going to take any chances. He’s talking about putting out a rap album because his people think he spits the dopest rhymes. He recently performed two children’s chants that lit up the airwaves, “Naatema akati” (I cut a stick) and “Mp’enkoni” (Give me the stick).

It should be noted that by law, all Ugandan songs must be about sticks.