Dickipedia

I found a great site this week, Dickipedia, like Wikipedia but it only has articles about people who are dicks :) Here are some of my favourite lines from the hours I spent reading on there:

Immediately following the 9/11 attacks, Cheney was kept out of the public eye in an undisclosed location, partly for security reasons and partly because it was thought that America had been through enough already. Some (Lynn Cheney) have been quoted as saying that Cheney has a charming side. This was on display in June of 2004 when, while walking by Senator Patrick Leahy in the Capital, he said "go fuck yourself."

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Uniquely, while many celebrities became popular despite being dicks, [Simon] Cowell became a celebrity because he is a dick.

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Mel Gibson is known for his sense of humor on the set of movies, and has a reputation for practical jokes, such as making an entire film specifically geared toward inciting hatred of an already historically persecuted ethnicity.
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In his own defense, Gibson claimed his intention was not to blame the Jews for Christ's death, saying, "we could all use a little more love, faith, hope, and forgiveness." Apparently, this forgiveness extends neither to the Jews who "cause all the wars in the world," nor the one who pulled him over with a .12 blood-alcohol level and an open bottle of cheap tequila in his cup holder.


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What critics don't understand, however, is that Perez Hilton is "friends" with celebrities the same way their coke dealer is.

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The only thing Sarah Palin seems to enjoy more than having children is giving those children ridiculous names and inadequate sex education.
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Sarah Palin's political views are totally cribbed from the "Focus on the Family" website. Pro-life, unless you're talking about the life of a criminal; limited government involvement in people's lives, unless those people have a uterus or are gay and want to get married; and guns for whoever wants them, as many as they like, unless they look Islamic, in which case they should be detained indefinitely, preferably naked and arranged in a human pyramid.

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Ronald Reagan grew up in Dixon, Illinois. His father was a drunk dick, and his mother a dick enabler. His first job was that of a lifeguard, on the Rock River. Over the course of seven summers, Reagan was credited with saving 77 lives, only 66,923 less than were murdered in El Salvador and Honduras by death squads he supported during his Presidency.

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Nixon was recorded on tape calling Donald Rumsfeld a "ruthless little bastard." This is the nicest compliment anyone has ever paid him.
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With Carter's election in 1978, Rumsfeld left to pursue a more lucrative career in private evil, for the next two decades heading up several major pharmaceutical companies.
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In his second stint at utilizing military force to make the rest of the world hate us, Donald Rumsfeld is best known for leading the planning and execution of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, and then, because the no-bid government contracts turned out to be even more lucrative than Dick Cheney could have forecasted, Iraq in 2003.

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The Pope Formerly Known as Ratzinger now insists that his membership in the Nazi Party was "unenthusiastic" and that he refused to attend meetings, which is a lot like saying you’re just a "casual member" of the Klan and only participated in, like, four or five lynchings, tops.
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The dickish ability to see no conflict between Jesus' commandment to love thy neighbor and Hitler's commandment to violently murder millions of Jews should have served as a sign that the Papacy couldn’t be too far off.

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At USC Simpson became a star running back and won the Heisman Trophy in 1968. No Heisman winner has won by a larger margin of victory, nor has one ever gone on to be accused of murdering his ex-wife and Ron Goldman.
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Simpson is also the subject of an Arnold Friberg oil painting called “O.J. Simpson breaks for daylight.” It is not a reference to running away from police after murdering one's ex-wife and Ron Goldman.
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Simpson also had stints as a commentator for Monday Night Football and hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live, on which he is said to have killed.

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Christopher Columbus's greatest achievement in dickery, however, is his legacy. Despite leading a life of racism, slavery, and barbaric acts against natives so heinous that he was arrested and jailed, the only thing American children are really taught about the man is that "in fourteen hundred and ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." With similar historical airbrushing, schools could also accurately teach that "in nineteen hundred and forty two, Hitler gave free showers to lots of Jews." He did. Look it up.
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A God-fearing man, Columbus opted not to baptize the natives because Catholic law forbade the enslavement of Christians. What else was he going to do, NOT enslave them? Get real.

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In the late 20th Century, psychologists and medical researchers came up with a term to describe male right-wing religious bigots who are obsessed with combating homosexuality. That term is: "homosexual."

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Rush Limbaugh is currently single, but has been married and divorced three times, to a radio station secretary, an usherette at the Royals Stadium Club, and an aerobics instructor, respectively, all of whose willingness to "nail the whale" apparently didn't last more than a few years until fatty remorse set in.

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With only so many Commonwealth citizens to swallow his current events-based butt pee, [Rupert] Murdoch began to focus his attention on the most tender, willing mouth of all: the United States.

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Bernard Madoff started his firm in 1960 with an initial investment of $5,000 (about $35,000 in today's dollars, though probably a lot less in tomorrow's dollars, and probably even less the day after tomorrow).

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In 1991, Madonna turned her "sleeping her way to the top" strategy on its ear and, instead of using sex to get cast in a movie, she cut out the middle man and simply made a movie about sex.