December 2009
66 posts
November 2009
132 posts
The Heresy!
So this was posted as a comment on the site that I work for. Note, the site deals with entertainment, so we have a heavily load of Twilight shit.
The context is Stephen Moyer, who plays vampire Bill on True Blood, said this about fictional Edward Cullen, of Twilight:
“He’s the Slim-Fast, Diet Coke of vampires.”
Clearly, it was in jest. But some so-called Twihards didn’t...
I wonder if the media knows how silly they sound as they endlessly dawdle on about “Cyber Monday” today. All I can think about is people nation wide having mass cybersex orgies.
Yes, I grew up on the Internet, the sex offender’s home turf. It was a dangerous childhood.
WatchAndy Rooney: “You say I’m negative about everything?”
Television commercials. There aren’t enough of htem, as far as I’m concerned. Half the time, the commercials are the best part of hte show. A lot of people fast forward through a program just to watch the commercials.
Aren’t those multi-million dollar bonuses paid to Wall Street executives great?...
Elephant Stone (Original Demo) — The Stone Roses
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Jobs Summit Invitations →
This party is BYOITSMP (Bring Your Own Ideas To Save My Presidency)
The invitations went out just before Thanksgiving, but by the end of the holiday weekend the White House has confirmed that President Obama’s jobs summit on Thursday will include about 130 business leaders, union chiefs, academics, mayors and representatives of nonprofit groups.
The business leaders represent companies large...
Are (Sociopaths) Going to Let John Die? →
Overwhelming proof that we are governed, in large part, by egomaniacal sociopaths:
If Joe Lieberman or other senators came across John Brodniak writhing in pain on the sidewalk, they presumably would jump to help him and rush him to a hospital.
Ten days after the wedding, he was walking in his backyard carrying a neighbor’s dog — and he suddenly blacked out. That led, after rounds of CAT scans,...
Historians Will Excuse Me For Being Fucked Up? →
TIME Magazine on this horrible decade:
Instead, it was the American Dream that was about to dim. Bookended by 9/11 at the start and a financial wipeout at the end, the first 10 years of this century will very likely go down as the most dispiriting and disillusioning decade Americans have lived through in the post–World War II era. We’re still weeks away from the end of ‘09, but...
New Obama Policy Bars Lobbyists From Federal... →
Some actual good news from Washington, some Change We Can Believe In, a promise fulfilled:
Hundreds, if not thousands, of lobbyists are likely to be ejected from federal advisory panels as part of a little-noticed initiative by the Obama administration to curb K Street’s influence in Washington, according to White House officials and lobbying experts.
The new policy — issued with...
President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1934 Thanksgiving Day Proclamation:
Thus to set aside in the autumn of each year a day on which to give thanks to Almighty God for the blessings of life is a wise and reverent custom, long cherished by our people. It is fitting that we should again observe this custom. During the past year we have been given courage and fortitude to meet the problems which...
Cops: 5 SoCal kids victims of 'ginger' attacks →
Actually, this shit is kinda serious. My 14-year old brother has an actual dislike for gingers, as ridiculous as it sounds. I try to talk him out of it, and he says he’s just kidding, but I’m pretty sure that’s not the case. And I don’t know what gingers have done wrong to deserve that kind of animosity.
It’s like they’re the red headed step children.
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The Political Fictions Project →
NY Magazine charged seven fiction writers with dreaming up short stories about contemporary political figures. And they’re asking readers to send in 1000 word essays, too.
It’s a brilliant project — it reflects how we think of our leaders, not just policy wise, but how we dissect them as people. Because that’s half the battle of leadership.
Obama Meets His Conscience, His Inner...
Googling Hate →
America is a fucked up place with fucked up people, and it’s bubbling to the surface. Really disgusting, I almost don’t want to post the picture. But it’s important to know what Neanderthal, backwater, hateful things people are doing out there:
Google has purchased online ads in an effort to explain to users why an offensive image of Michelle Obama is appearing, and is ranked...
Remnants
I am absolutely exhausted on this Tuesday morning. But every time I try to stretch out, to get the blood flowing, it kills my sternum and torn muscle. Just a nice little reminder for me, I guess.
That is all.
Watch“She was just a normal kid. She wasn’t some fat dumb Mormon fuckface who should have drank herself to death when she had the chance. She was so beautiful, she didn’t even have little pig eyes.”
WatchAl Gore says he’s going to “outcrazy the crazy” on the right wing to push climate change legislation.
The craziest part is the things he says he’s going to do, like plant trees in Senators’ yards and tape guns to the branches, aren’t nearly as crazy as conservatives comparing healthcare to Auschwitz and marching with photos of dead Jews at Dachau.
Literally,...
Lou Dobbs May Run For President? →
I can’t wait for the GOP primary. It is going to be a fucking freak show.
Ex-CNNer Lou Dobbs tells WTOP this morning that he feels “liberated and emancipated” since leaving the network — and he’s not ruling out the possibility of running for president in 2012.
When one of the WTOP anchors joked that pundits were floating the crazy idea of the immigration-fixated Dobbs...
Blanche Lincoln Is Such A Victim :( →
It must be really stressful coming from rich political families and doing your best to deny affordable healthcare to tens of millions of Americans:
Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) was a day away from casting a vote that could change her political career when she got a phone call from someone who knew what she was going through.
“I know you’re tired, but we need a glass of wine,” Sen. Mary...
Goldman Sachs’s Tax Rate Drops to 1%, or $14... →
I’m not even going to bother with the expected anti-corporate vampire rapist diatribe here. It’s not even worth it.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc., which got $10 billion and debt guarantees from the U.S. government in October, expects to pay $14 million in taxes worldwide for 2008 compared with $6 billion in 2007.
The company’s effective income tax rate dropped to 1 percent from 34.1...
