January 2008
71 posts
“The lie that the Clintons were incompetent/dishonest/dirty/all of the above is...”
– Reclusive Leftist » Catapulting the propaganda, or why Obama’s Reagan comments bother me
In the U.S. south, is Canadian a new racial slur? →
WatchI never make a big deal about being a vegetarian… but this basically sums it up. Waterboarding cows
“People say: ‘Oh, everybody knows that, it’s preaching to the converted.’ Oh,...”
– Barbara Kruger, interview in Eye Magazine, May 1991
“You people are going to ruin your little daughter and make her burn in hell like...”
– hate mail sent to a blog about vegan parenting via Pharyngula
“When a poet or an artist tears away the veil of hypocrisy to reveal deplorable...”
– Simplicissimus (Vol 1. No. 13)
“anyhoo, bitchitude, fan-fucking-tabulous, hole-esque, nastified, alternapop,...”
– Sarah Boxer, Blogs - The New York Review of Books A sampling of words gleaned from blogs.
Hey Kids, Shoot Your Favorite Candidate! →
Presidential paintball via The Smoking Gun
Obi-Wan died for your sins →
SoMA Review - New Jedi Church Uses the Force; Followers of Lord Vader Not Welcome. “Lifelong ‘Star Wars’ fans, Barney and Daniel Jones—a.k.a. Master Jonba Hehol and Master Morda Hehol—told the BBC they formed a solid grasp of the Jedi ‘faith’ by watching the films ‘multiple dozens of times.’ (apologies to the commenter who beat me to the...
“Diddling the dominant culture is fair game, and for my own taste, the use and...”
– Lucy R. Lippard, “Doubled Over”, essay in Visual Satire: Artists’ Books, 1988.
WatchThese guys make a living by shoving Mentos into bottles of Diet Coke. “This is the video that started it all: a backyard experiment became a cultural phenomenon. We couldn’t believe the reaction! The video even won the Webby Award for best viral video and was nominated for an Emmy Award for outstanding broadband content. We’ve since taken Diet Coke & Mentos madness onto the...
National Portrait Gallery Adds Colbert →
National Portrait Gallery Adds Colbert’s portrait - right outside the restroom.
Robbie Conal :: Freedom From Choice →
“We as a people must stand united, banding together to tear this nation in...”
– Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’ from The Onion - America’s Finest News Source Life imitates the Onion. (published 1/17/01)
“Every presidential candidate, and most other politicians, since 1980, have been...”
– Hullabaloo on the irony of pundits getting blown out of shape for Hillary’s perceived reliance on “playing the gender card.” Which is just another example of what happens when you look at the world through the “male=default condition, female=bizarro other species”...
“The spirit of acrimony too much affrights, that of ridicule too much diverts.”
– Edward Burnaby Greene, 1763 cross-posted from my blog
