December 2008
101 posts
Purging my shameful secrets for the New Year
Ok, some time ago, I confessed that I watched Dr. Drew’s Celebrity Rehab. (Several people graciously supported me, for which I thank them.) Here’s my new confession: I plan to watch Confessions of a Teen Idol. In fact, I can’t wait. I mean, Christopher Atkins? Billy Hufsey? Adrian Zmed?!?
Frankly, I don’t know how anybody could not watch this thing.
Add Up the Damage →
Bob Herbert kicks Bush’s ass, as usual. But as I’ve said before now, if we weren’t out in the streets rioting in 2000 after the Supreme Court wrongfully installed this miserable excuse for a human being as President, we never will be, ever. (via wayne-remy)
“Katrina to me was the tipping point. The president broke his bond with the...”
– Matthew Dowd, Bush’s pollster and chief strategist for the 2004 presidential campaign. (via apsies) (via robot-heart-politics)
“The super-rich seem to me, during the past few decades, to have wafted off into...”
– Obsidian Wings: Oblivious (via robot-heart-politics) (via wayne-remy)
“I go around to shops now and think, I don’t want any of these things,” Mr....”
– On Location - A Designer of Castles, Living Simply - NYTimes.com (via wreckandsalvage)
Mrs. Bush: Bush presidency not a failure →
“First Lady Laura Bush disagrees with critics who call the presidency of George W. Bush a failure.
‘I know it’s not, and so I don’t really feel like I need to respond to people that view it that way,’ Mrs. Bush said in an interview that aired Sunday. ‘I think history will judge and we’ll see later.’”
A-HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! <keeling...
All the fashion →
Why are more and more of us suffering from allergies? Professor Mark Jackson, author of the provocative new book Allergy: The History of a Modern Malady, suggests allergies have become fashionable; a way to indicate you are a refined individual. “I would never argue that allergies were not a real medical condition”, says Professor Jackson. “But I think we need to explore the...
“Cheney says water-boarding is not torture. That question has been resolved as a...”
– Dahlia Lithwick exposes the moral, legal, ethical, and intellectual swamp that is Dick Cheney. Worth reading the whole thing. (via girlinboyland)
The Star Wars Holiday Special - Vanity Fair... →
wreckandsalvage:
lizlet:
This article is fantastic. But no, Dad, once a year is enough.
The above statement is wrong. The article is not fantastic. It is the best article EVER. Sample quotation from Bruce Vilanch:
“I said: ‘You’ve chosen to build a story around these characters who don’t speak. The only sound they make is like fat people having an orgasm,’” the 250-plus-pound Vilanch recalls....
Melissa Etheridge on Rick Warren →
notthatkindagay:
He explained in very thoughtful words that as a Christian he believed in equal rights for everyone. He believed every loving relationship should have equal protection. He struggled with proposition 8 because he didn’t want to see marriage redefined as anything other than between a man and a woman. He said he regretted his choice of words in his video message to his congregation...
Why is there a Nikon ad campaign built around...
danhacker:
I just don’t get it.
A better question might be why there’s a Hollywood career built around Ashton Kutcher, but I’m afraid that will be one of those questions that has to remain rhetorical.
“I’ve been thinking a lot lately about Tom Brokaw’s book “The Greatest...”
– “The Real Generation X” par Thomas L. Friedman sur NYTimes.com (December 7th, 2008) (via c0wb0yz)
Evolution: 24 myths and misconceptions →
(via rlrr)
“She was good at playing abstract confusion in the same way that a midget is good...”
– Clive James, on Marilyn Monroe
“The movement created by that superelite, but never elitist, William F. Buckley...”
– TPMCafe | Talking Points Memo | The Top Dozen Insights of Conservatives, 2008 (via wayne-remy)
My (tentative) to-read list for 2009
outtheother:
Hi Laura! This Is Your Brain On Music is a great, great book - I read that one last year.
And maybe we should mini-bookclub Our Band Could Be Your Life - I’ve been wanting to read something at the same time as someone else, since it’s always fun to have someone to talk to about what you’re reading, and I haven’t done that since college!
letusread:
Hi, I’m Laura. I’ve really...
“Will Ferrell’s movie success is a mystery to many of us – with his dead little...”
– The 100 Worst Movies of 2008
The Reckoning - On Wall Street, Bonuses, Not... →
“As regulators and shareholders sift through the rubble of the financial crisis, questions are being asked about what role lavish bonuses played in the debacle. Scrutiny over pay is intensifying as banks like Merrill prepare to dole out bonuses even after they have had to be propped up with billions of dollars of taxpayers’ money. While bonuses are expected to be half of what they were a...
What you guys reading?
psychoviolinist:
pie0:
I am finally getting back into reading again.
What are all you guys reading?
Right now I’m on a major Stephen King kick…currently finishing “Nightmares and Dreamscapes” then probably moving into “The Long Walk”.
I’m reading Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens. It will probably be my last book this year, since it’s 900 pages long and I’m on page 200.
Watchasprettyasasong:
Vice President Cheney admits authorizing torture.
Looks to me like he just confessed to a felony.
Quitting Verizon →
Well. I think it’s safe to say that this guy isn’t too too concerned with burning bridges.
“The governor engages in humor all the time, and he can certainly take a joke....”
– David Paterson spokesperson, Errol Cockfield (via notthatkindagay)
(For once, a political spokesperson isn’t full of it — as we here in the Empire State know, Governor Paterson is actually pretty damn funny.)
