February 2008
50 posts
“The deal is that women generally fall into two alternatives: they are either...”
– Susan Fiske, a psychology professor at Princeton who specializes in stereotyping.
“We disagree with you. You want to criminalize women and their doctors and we...”
– Bill Clinton
“I understand that Senator Clinton, periodically when she’s feeling down,...”
– Barack Obama “Periodically feeling down” is the textbook asshole male corporate wanker put-down, the kind of demeaning snipe used incessantly against female colleagues which they can’t report without looking like hysterics. Any woman who’s found herself in a corporate setting...
Police Told Teen To Stop Calling Before... →
A Central Florida woman whose 17-year-old daughter was killed in a murder-suicide apparently committed by her ex-boyfriend said the teen was told by police to stop calling for help or she’d be arrested. This story is: a) sad b) outrageous c) infuriating d) all of the above via
“Hillary should quit. It’s awful, men feeling threatened and stuff. We can’t have...”
– The Ghost of Violet
Duelity →
Two short films that tell creation stories… 1 is a scientific account of the Bible, the other is a Biblical account of the Big Bang + Darwin. Watch them one at a time and then side-by-side. Amazing. (For once, I did not F-up the spelling. This is indeed how they spell the name of the film.)
“See, if you’re a decrepit old person like me and you came of age in the 70s, it...”
– Reclusive Leftist» The anti-Hillary Wave: the sexist old guard plus the sexist new guard. And of course Camille Paglia
“It was raw, naked, complete, worship, love, heart-whole passionate stunned and...”
– Someone who attended an Obama rally in Virginia I’ll probably end up voting for him if he gets the Democratic nomination. But I’m still going to make fun of the cultists. via Jon Swift: Barack Obama’s Achilles Heel
“The policy has hit poorest people the hardest, they say, forcing people to...”
– BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Manila women fight contraception ban What an anti-choice, anti-divorce culture ends up looking like.
“McCain is a social conservative. The only place he deviates from the party line...”
– Shout It From the Rooftops!
“We don’t pretend to be Western mullahs who decide what is right and wrong...”
– Justice Antonin Scalia on ‘so-called torture’
“But more importantly, “bipartisanship” is already rampant in...”
– Glenn Greenwald What “bipartisanship” in Washington means
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“The really tragic thing about the Democratic surrender on Iraq is that...”
– The Chicken Doves : Rolling Stone
Cripes. The hypocrisy goes way beyond satire. It’s hard to even know how to deal with all this.
Pelosi, Clinton & co. sold us out on the war, and Obama threw the gays under the bus in the primary.
Maybe the answer is to vote Green again.
“Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.”
– John McCain (Ugh.) via
U.S. Politics Have No Left Wing →
Fascinating article by a Swedish blogger… and an interesting conversation in the comments. “US politics often look absurd from a European perspective, since the entire bipartisan system maps onto the conservative half of European politics…”
“You say “potato”, and I say “Jesus”
You say “hey, wait—Oh, just look at the...”
– The Digital Cuttlefish
“Cheney is the Best Vice President in History.”
– George W. Bush
“If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall...”
– Mitt Romney, former Governor, reminding us that Democrats = terrorists.
I didn't think I'd find something more... →
So let me get this straight...
This guy gets major media attention, and is considered a front-runner. But this guy is regarded as a joke, even among progressives. Huh.
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The death of satire, part V. →
Wow, am I on a roll this morning, or what?
This is a physical bar graph coffee table that supposedly charts your online activity, but I’m calling it for what it is: extremely ugly and beyond useless. This is, without a doubt, the current designy-trendy obession with information visualization taken to its absurdly ridiculous conclusion.
Note to the creators of the video: next time, vaccuum...
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The death of satire, part IV. →
Christian mime. WTF.
Also, literally one of the worst flash-based sites I’ve ever seen. (copyright 2007!) Be sure to turn your speakers on for the omgawesome voice-over introduction. (Yup, a website about mimes that talks to you. I am not making this up, but I wish I did.)
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The death of satire, part III. →
I’m having a difficult time figuring this one out. 4Kidz with Lambuel. “My OBJECTIVE is JUST 4 KIDZ! The “Z” is for “ZEALOUSNESS,” ‘cause Jesus wants us to be hot for Him, not lukewarm.”
Seriously disturbing. Scroll down to read about characters like “Habu the elephant” (he has so many gods he lost count!) and”Mr. Gruff the...
