March 2012
I hope Rick Santorum...
wins the nomination, so Obama can properly trounce the nastiest, purest strains of theocratic thuggery in this country, instead of allowing them the satisfaction of claiming Romney was an impure vessel.
mar-see-ah replied to your post: You know what the perfect cherry on top of a day…
when is it NOT Gin o’clock?
On the neverth of the month, I believe.
1 tag
You know what the perfect cherry on top of a day filled with wrangling the health care system for an older friend and managing two teams at work during a huge personnel shift at our company would be?
Getting a letter calling me to jury duty.
Oh good. Now that’s covered too.
February 2012
BREAKING: NY Times, USA Today reporting that...
So maybe it isn’t best to declare war on every nuclear-capable state?
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
misterhippity replied to your video: I don’t care if it’s Romney or Santorum, Obama is…
Be careful … about this time in 2000, I remember laughing about this clown George W. Bush and how Al Gore was gonna clean his clock.
Oh, it’ll be close. You could put a mule up as the GOP candidate (or a Santorum!) and 48% of the country would vote for it. There’s a lot of people that...
Gen. McCaffrey privately briefs NBC execs on war... →
joshsternberg:
Greenwald. Read this through.
On January 12, 2012, McCaffrey presented a seminar to roughly 20 NBC executives and producers — including NBC News President Steve Capus — entitled “Iran, Nukes & Oil: The Gulf Confrontation.” We’ve obtained the Power Point document McCaffrey prepared and distributed for his presentation, and in it, he all but predicts war with Iran within the...
The Stratfor dump is Wikileak's iPhone 4S
Disappointing at a time when they really needed to pull something brilliant out of their ass.
1 tag
choire replied to your quote: Our sullyfeed Twitter account just surpassed…
I think, let’s say “demographic.” #olds
True (and guilty as charged, I’m too old to even bother with his Twitter feed), but I thought he was the “World’s Best Blogger”?
“The Dish has twice as many readers as the New Republic and more than National Review,” Sullivan says. And on...
“Our sullyfeed Twitter account just surpassed 20,000 followers, with another...”
– Andrew Sullivan only has 20,000 followers on Twitter?
2 tags
Rush Limbaugh: Maybe It's Time To Say "The Hell"... →
thecallus:
jasencomstock:
Sweet, let’s go. all in agreement?
Meanwhile, the Federal Government is withholding F35 payments to Lockheed. What the hell is going on? I feel like I woke up in a bizarrely sane place today. Facts mattered and people were accountable!
Of course, then I realize tomorrow will be all “WHY WON’T OBUMMER GET US OUT OF AFGHANISTAN? Is that where they hide all the copies...
officialssay:
“I’m telling you, I was almost walking out with three puppies. It’s so hard. That’s why we named her Sophie, because it was Sophie’s Choice. I was crying — it was so hard.”
— Jennifer Aniston on getting a dog. In Sophie’s Choice, a mother at Auschwitz has to choose whether her 10-year-old son or 7-year-old daughter will live.
Dogwin’s Law.
2 tags
Dear persistent PR person
I appreciate your doggedness while trying to get me to cover the musician you are representing (On my Tumblr? In the magazine? Unclear.)
But referring to me as “Adam” isn’t helping your cause.
“Yes. Next question.”
– Mitt Romney, in response to a reporter asking whether the candidate’s recent statements about his wife owning “a couple of Cadillacs” and his being friends with several NASCAR team “owners” had damaged his campaign. (via dcdecoder)
I’m anxious to see how this war of attrition breaks down the...
3 tags
scottfriday replied to your quote: He did my hair three times when I first moved to…
they have gay hairstylists now?
We’ve come a long way, baby.
2 tags
“He did my hair three times when I first moved to Santa Fe. But frankly he talked...”
– New Mexico governor Susana Martinez trash-talking the high-end stylist who refused to do her hair until she changes her positions on gay rights
2 tags
2 tags
“To get the most out of social media we need to understand those communities. So...”
– from NPR’s new Ethics Handbook
“Iranian people respect all cultures despite the western hostility with Iranian...”
– the official Fars News translation of a portion of Asghar Farhadi’s Oscar speech
What he actually said:
At this time, many Iranians all over the world are watching us and I imagine them to be very happy. They are happy not just because of an important award or a film or filmmaker, but...
Santorum! →
1 tag
“At this time, many young Iranians all over this world are watching us, and I...”
– Iranian film director ASGHAR FARHADI, on accepting his Academy Award for Best Foreign Film, A Separation (via inothernews)
