December 2008
Yikes, no wonder my commute took longer this... →
Former KGB analyst predicts imminent U.S.... →
which is a bit like Rush Limbaugh arguing that gays will destroy the sanctity of marriage
“The mother of Bristol Palin’s boyfriend sent text messages to two police...”
– Associated Press - confirming my suspicion that cell phone code names for drugs don’t work very well - not to mention that ‘coffee’ sounds more like Adderall than Oxycontin
Surprise, I agree with Pareene. →
“But now it’s the sandals of Obama that are being exploited by the same...”
– Christopher Hitchens, on another tear against Rick Warren. I find Hitchens’ objections to be more persuasive than those of Joe Solmonese, quite frankly
Best bullshit term of the day.
Wallpaper magazine says you can “stir up the holiday season” with “DIY Dining”! Otherwise known as cooking?
“But it [youth alienation] is also influenced by sweeping international trends of...”
– Robert Kaplan explains why, after you hide your money under your mattress, you might want to crawl under there yourself
“Look at this shiny Rick Warren bauble, gay people! Pay no attention behind that...”
– Chris Crain
“In previous centuries, when religion had the upper hand, religious differences...”
– Secular Right, responding to Hitchens’ Warren bluster. I always enjoy a good Hitchens atheistic rant, but I think I agree with Heather here.
Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet becomes next... →
With a name like that, you pretty much have to kill yourself if you lose all your money.
You freaking pansy.
jessicacoen:
WashingtonPost.com executive editor Jim Brady has stepped down from his post: “I’m beat up, tired, burned out.”
Exhausted Web editors leaving their jobs are the new “mercury poisoning”.
Just in time for Xmas: Madonna screws Jesus. →
…and we all go to hell.
“He did find a minister who supports gay rights. In fact, civil rights icon James...”
– Chris Crain, speaking truth to gay groupthink
There's random, and then there's Randomocity.
I always reflexively enter Joe.My.God’s swag contests, always assuming I’m going to lose so I don’t get disappointed. But I just found out that I won 2 tix to the Saint at Large Xmas party at Pacha this weekend! The other winner? My best friend Rami, who works just a few floors above me at the same law firm. Joe apparently had no idea we knew each other. It’s a small gay...
“Life goes on and people make do with what they have, and they fall in love and...”
– David Byrne, genius
“I’ve abandoned free-market principles to save the free-market system.”
– Our dear leader, GW Bush
“Young Adolf has two younger sisters. JoyceLynn Aryan Nation Campbell will be two...”
– You just can’t make shit like this up.
Iran. Iran not so far away. →
650 Fifth Avenue, one block away from where i work, was seized today by the United States for funneling money to the government of Iran illegally. That’s right, the whole freaking building was seized. Nearly half the building was owned by an Iranian-controlled bank, with the usual shelter company obfuscation employed.
Grammatical grumble.
I can’t stand people that use the word “blog” to mean “blog post”. You did not write a really great blog about your cat the other day. You most likely wrote a shitty post on your blog about Fluffy.
If Pareene leaves, I'm moving to a place with no... →
[link includes a pic of the famously camera-shy Pareene!]
“The WHOPPER® sandwich is America’s Favorite burger. FLAME™ by BK® captures the...”
– I really wish this was a joke. Unfortunately, it is all too real, another sad “out of the box” idea from the creeps that brought you the nightmare-inducing plastic-headed King himself.
26% believe Obama has illegal ties to Blagojevich
This figure is mitigated by the fact that 12% of those people most likely still believe he is a Muslim.
“In this sense, life is a very natural thing, which emerged simply to satisfy...”
– Merry Christmas, there is no higher meaning to your life
Tina: Bring me the axe. →
My thoughts on anti-meth advertising, June 2005: “Like the safer sex message, the anti-crystal message has to highlight the real dangers but be careful not to inflate the message to a point where those who know better dismiss it altogether.”
“Whenever people say, “You should not discriminate against people because...”
– Ta-Nehisi Coates. I’ve been saying this for years: the gay rights era will be over when we can honestly say that we would choose to be gay. In other words, we are our own enemy.
“When Hillary Clinton ran for President, she ran as a woman, in my opinion, and I...”
– Jack Donaghy, aka Alec Baldwin
Video footage of NYC subway shot in 1905! →
This is either terribly boring or utterly gripping, depending on your level of obsession with this city.
“I think it needs to be mentioned amidst all this shouting about gay domesticity...”
– Mark Simpson, the tool who brought you the phrase “metrosexual”, celebrating the reactionary view of gay behavior. Ever wonder why we’re all single and fucked up, brainiac?
“On Rev. Jeremiah Wright and McCain’s refusal to allow his campaign to...”
– Chief pollster Bill McInturff, proving that there was not even one shred of selfless decency to the McCain campaign
Gawker prepares the way for the robots. →
This is nothing. Soon Denton will roll out his Digg-style content generator and headline-o-matic algorithm, obviating the need to have any editorial slaves whatsoever. Then he can invest in ad sales, where his heart has always been, and not have to deal with the prickly, effete demands of his creative monkeys.
“Upon reflection I’ve come to realize that carrying a machete into a potential...”
– Tom, my college roommate, who is in Ecuador studying birds, which apparently isn’t always as tranquil as you would imagine
“Did you know that 1 in 3 NYC prostitutes goes to bed without toys every night?...”
– Whore’s Mascara press release for a party they’re throwing this weekend. Love love love them.
“(One official from Mitsubishi, which is unveiling an electric car soon, expects...”
– Why you will always pay a lot to run your car. Think a car that runs only on water would be a miracle? How much did you pay for that 16oz. bottle of Fiji again?
“The Obama team did NOT want to play ball. But this isn’t one of those...”
– Blago! by Ambinder. Is “descries” the correct word here? Wouldn’t “decries” make more sense?
Keystone Kops - Drug War Edition. →
Calling in gay. →
This is a terrible idea.
Let’s assume that you work in an average industry, and that app. 10% of their workforce is gay. Let’s assume that 20% of those people are engaged enough with gay civil rights to call in sick as a protest. Does that cripple the company? Certainly not. All it does is make those few people look bad at their job. So it hurts them professionally, but does little...
NY Times to mortgage headquarters to avert cash... →
Holy crap. I’m certainly no fan of the hideous exoskeleton that Renzo Piano erected in front of Port Authority to replace the stately West 43rd St. headquarters, but this can’t bode well for the Times, or the industry in general. Yes, I know this is anything but breaking news at this point, but the symbolic weight of losing their headquarters in a credit crunch would be momentous...
Merry Secular Christmas. →
Cereal is the answer to life
Brilliant.
ryanpurtill:
I was eating luck charms this morning and it all came to me..
I noticed that lucky charms is essentially the combination of two things marshmallows and grain cereal.
The marshmellows are in the shape of stars, horseshoes, cresent moons..All these shapes are traditonal symbols for pagan traditions and religions. These religions often integrated hedonism, sex, and...
Meet the Press finally finds a moderator. →
This feels right to me. Gregory was out of his element in the cable screamer setting, and has the journalistic chops to fill the MTP chair with the gravitas it deserves. I just hope he’s better than Brokaw, who has been boring me to tears since Russert died.
Ileana refuses to get Palin'd, ends up punking... →
If only there were much more news like this on the... →
“The confusion, preaching to the choir, and lack of a clear message was the real...”
– Public School Intelligentsia gives good (albeit grammatically suspect) rant