June 2009
18 posts
May 2009
88 posts
“The Republicans at least have an excuse for pushing this poison. They are...”
– Frank Rich, “Who is to Blame for the Next Attack?”
Prop 8 Decision Protesters Use Wikis and Facebook... →
cosmicdancer:
via mashable:
Utilizing social media, protests can be started and organized in a matter of minutes. While this usually applies to digital protests (i.e. Twitter #fixreplies and Facebook’s homepage…
WatchJorge Colombo drew this week’s cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square.
“I got a phone in the beginning of February, and I immediately got the program so I could entertain myself,” says Colombo, who first published his drawings in The New Yorker in 1994. Colombo has been drawing since he was seven, but he...
1984: The masterpiece that killed George Orwell →
Good article on Orwell’s writing of 1984, just near the end of his life.
FBI Foils Plot To Bomb New York Synagogues →
fuddmain:
nwsppr:
NPR.org, May 21, 2009 · Four men have been arrested for allegedly plotting to bomb two Jewish synagogues in the Riverdale section of the Bronx and shoot down U.S. warplanes at an Air National Guard base in upstate New York.
How did we manage to catch these guys without waterboarding someone? I’m stunned.
“Now, some have suggested that this represents a reversal on my part. They are...”
– President Obama, on claims he switched his position on Gitmo (via asprettyasasong)
WatchOh my god, this guy saved a whole brood of ducklings! By catching them! As the mother duck quacked! As far as duck rescue videos go, this is definitely in the top three.
“RNC Chairman Michael Steele is set to deliver a speech to state GOP chairmen...”
– TPMDC Morning Roundup | TPMDC
Wait… when did the era of apologizing begin?
(via thesmarttart)
(via needtherapy)
And frankly, they owe people an apology anyway, so better they should continue.
The 13 people who made torture possible →
asprettyasasong:
robot-heart-politics:
thesmarttart:
“On April 16, the Obama administration released four memos that were used to authorize torture in interrogations during the Bush administration. When President Obama released the memos, he said, “It is our intention to assure those who carried out their duties relying in good faith upon legal advice from the Department of Justice that they...
Jennifer Weiner: To Boldly Go...Backwards →
Jennifer Weiner, a Trekkie like me (and I’m talking TOS, folks, not Next Generation), explains why she was disappointed in the movie: namely that halfway through, she realized that “every single lady on screen was either a mother, a ho, or an intergalactic hood ornament.” Yeppers.
silverdoll:
blurredvision:
Wonderwall, Cat...
The Housemartins, Get Up Off Our Knees
“You just can’t underestimate [the food industry’s] ability [to] turn any...”
– Michael Pollan on Alternet (via datn)
All together now: “ACTIVIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!”
Arkansas GOP Senate Candidate Apologizes For... →
Arkansas state Sen. Kim Hendren, who is currently the only announced Republican candidate for U.S. Senator against Democratic incumbent Blanche Lincoln in 2010, has apologized for referring to Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) as “that Jew,” at a county Republican meeting last week. “I don’t use a teleprompter and occasionally I put my foot in my month,” Hendren told Arkansas...
“In a statement released yesterday, owner of the Miss U.S.A. pageant, Donald...”
– wish i was taller
And people wonder why women have body image issues. (via needtherapy) Uh HUH. So by this logic, then, I guess since Donald Trump is pretty much the ugliest man on the planet, no one should pay attention to a word he says. Right?
Oh, but wait, I forgot — the rule about...
My gift to porcine creatures everywhere: I am...
Jesus whirling christ, but I am tired of hearing about everyone’s obsession with bacon. And as though that weren’t bad enough, now everything in the world has to taste like bacon, smell like bacon, blahdeeblahdeeblah. Oh, bacon-flavored chocolate bars! Oh, bacon scented candles! Oh, Band-Aids that look like bacon! Yes, ha ha ha, how incongruous.
Let’s go back to being obsessed...
Screw you, Dell. Just because I have a uterus,... →
foureleven:
(via miltnr)
This is just as offensive as Blackbird.
New York Assembly Passes Gay Marriage Bill →
Ooh, a glimmer of hope for gay marriage in New York. (And the organization working against gay marriage — it has a hell of a lot of chutzpah calling itself New Yorkers for Constitutional Freedoms. I hope they’re proud of being cynics as well as bigots.)
Next up: Larry the Cable Guy's Views on Kashrut
Ok, could we all please stop talking about the following:
1. Miss California’s views on gay marriage.
2. The ramifications of her views, e.g., whether they kept her from winning a beauty pageant, or whether they make her popular or unpopular with a bunch of people who make a living by operating a beauty pageant.
3. Whether it’s acceptable that Miss California, a contestant in a...
“Meanwhile, Fox News can’t decide whether the new president’s...”
– Gene Lyons, “Keep on whining, Republicans”
Oh, and here’s the handy Red Scare Index, too.
Maybe Psycho Will Be Next
What kind of a bizarre TV programmer decides to show Mildred Pierce on Mother’s Day? I mean, is that some sort of sick joke?