August 2008
43 posts
“The Palin pick says much more about McCain than it does about Palin (all it says...”
– Andrew Sullivan (via toldorknown)
Top Five Unfunny Office Jokes
1. Male supervisor/partner-type person complimenting a female co-worker’s scarf or other article of clothing and then clapping his hand over his mouth in mock horror and saying, “Whoops! I guess that had better go down in your Title VII notebook!” 2. Seeing A sitting at B’s desk to fix the computer or something and saying to A, “Why, B! How you’ve...
Love Me, Love My Books →
“I do believe in the dealbreaker book. This book so deeply resonates with your soul that if a potential partner finds it risible, any meeting of minds (or body) is all but impossible. Most of us have one or two books that encapsulate all we believe to be skilful and admirable in art and in life. And while we don’t necessarily expect everyone to enjoy them, we do expect our soulmate to....
“RE: OBAMA’S SPEECH
I CAN MAKE two metaphors:
1. THE SPORTS METAPHOR (for...”
– John Hodgman
jaschu:
iheartdraco:
Dolly Parton doing Jolene...
Olive Garden arrives →
This article bears all the marks of a piece from The Onion — the white-bread cast of characters lacking a shred of self-awareness, banal observations presented as nuggets of wisdom, and utter lack of irony. So it’s from the Onion, right?
Nope, it’s a real article from the Sioux City Journal. My hand to god. My favorite part has got to be the lede:
“A martini is not a...
Dude, this is way better than Rock Paper Scissors. →
Damn sweet video reminder from Nat Geo to stay green.
Arrogant? WTF, dude?
asprettyasasong:
brigno:
“The only kind of President I don’t think I could vote for would be an atheist. I could not vote for an atheist President because I just think that’s pretty arrogant.”
Rick Warren
“Let me get this straight. You think the Creator of the Universe cares personally about your life, and that you know, with absolute certainty, what he wants for all of humankind.
While I...
“If I had beaten the old man you’d of never heard of the kid and you wouldn’t be...”
– Michael Dukakis, apologizing for losing to George Bush the first. Yesterday. (via tumblelikeyougiveadamn) (via didyouevernotice) (via ubercalifragilisticxpialidocious)
In Honor of the 88th Birthday of Woman Suffrage
On August 26th, 1920, Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby certified that the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, had become part of the United States Constitution. In honor of the 88th anniversary, an excerpt from David Pietrusza’s 1920: The Year of the Six Presidents on the moment of passage in the Tennessee House of Representatives:
“Leading ratification forces was the...
Alice Wignall on the health benefits of singing →
bossa:
Advocates of singing lament its diminishing role in our lives: from the days when we sang round the piano in the pub and to pass the working day, to soothe babies and to mark moments of celebration and sorrow. Singing is sacred and everyday, ritualistic and spontaneous. It makes us better, and makes us feel better. And we should all be doing more of it.
Via The Guardian
I definitely...
Just right for the garden: a mini-cow →
“For between £200 and £2,000, people can buy a cow that stands no taller than a large German shepherd dog, gives 16 pints of milk a day that can be drunk unpasteurised, keeps the grass “mown” and will be a family pet for years before ending up in the freezer.”
moooo….
“Joe Biden is the right partner for Barack Obama. His many years of distinguished...”
– Sen. Chuck Hagel (R - Nebraska) (via fuddmain)
(Notice the “R” right after his name? Pretty amazing.)
Deployed soldiers donate to Obama 6:1 over McCain.
bunnynico:
From the Center for Responsive Politics:
According to an analysis of campaign contributions by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics, Democrat Barack Obama has received nearly six times as much money from troops deployed overseas at the time of their contributions than has Republican John McCain, and the fiercely anti-war Ron Paul, though he suspended his campaign for the...
McCain Unsure How Many Houses He Owns →
“I think — I’ll have my staff get to you,” McCain told Politico in Las Cruces, N.M. “It’s condominiums where — I’ll have them get to you.”
So let me get this straight. McCain has been portraying Obama as the out-of-touch elitist to McCain’s straight-talking man of the people, yet McCain actually has to ask his staff how many houses he owns? Ok,...
Is McCain another George W. Bush? →
“One after another, McCain’s answers were shallow, simplistic, and trite. He showed the same intellectual curiosity that George Bush has — virtually none. Where are John McCain’s writings exploring the vexing moral issues of our time? Where are his position papers setting forth his careful consideration of foreign policy, the welfare state, education, America’s moral...
late to the party
chrispazen:
i was walking up 9th ave today, and i passed a woman pushing her dog in a stroller (which struck me as both goofy for the woman, and counter-productive for the dog)
…
my question is — is this something people do now, and i’m just out of the loop?
is this the kind of thing i miss out on by not ordering “stuff white people like” from amazon?
and what if the dog actually needs to...
going to the movies by yourself...
jessicap:
totally awesome and confidently badass?
or, sad and pathetic.
Discuss.
The former, absolutely. “Sad and pathetic” is finding my own company so boring and unworthy that I can’t go out and do something I want to do unless I have someone to distract me from the fact that I find my own company boring and unworthy.
And the question is a bit odd, if you think about it:...
Or maybe we're both crazy.
I was talking to a lady in my office today, and in the course of our conversation about a certain case, she observed that by dint of their marriages to wealthy men, a bunch of our colleagues are in a completely different (higher, obviously) income bracket from the one she and I occupy. She expressed some consternation over these circumstances. Let me rephrase that, actually: she was bitter and...
Creepy.
Ok, the other day, for about the millionth time, I opened my eyes in the morning to find one of my cats sitting on the nightstand, her face about six to eight inches away from mine, staring RIGHT AT ME.
This is some creepy shit. Why the hell do they do that?
“People who make under $80,000 are too stupid to understand taxes anyway.”
– John McCain (via azspot)
Thanks! The table is interesting.
(via ubercalifragilisticxpialidocious)
Why do New Yorkers seem rude? →
robot-heart:
(via ubercalifragilisticxpialidocious)
In the United States today, public behavior is ruled by a kind of compulsory cheer that people probably picked up from television and advertising and that coats their transactions in a smooth, shiny glaze, making them seem empty-headed. New Yorkers have not yet gotten the knack of this. That may be because so many of them grew up outside the...
No evidence to support 'organic is best' →
“Many people pay more than a third more for organic food in the belief that it has more nutritional content than food grown with pesticides and chemicals. But the research by Dr Susanne Bügel and colleagues from the Department of Human Nutrition, University of Copenhagen, shows there is no clear evidence to back this up.”
No science credit for that Creation crap they... →
asprettyasasong:
livejamie:
A federal judge says the University of California can deny course credit to applicants from Christian high schools whose textbooks declare the Bible infallible and reject evolution.
Chalk one up for common sense. Woo!
The Olympics Sap-o-Meter →
Finally, a scientific way to measure the sappiness of NBC’s Olympics coverage. And it is sappy.
“Not having things might become cooler than having them.”
– Michael Pollan: Why Bother? (via adora)
