July 2010
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Chelsea Clinton's big fat leaked wedding →
When Bill told People magazine that Chelsea’s wedding would be “the biggest day in her life, probably,” I’m sure he meant well, but I kind of wanted to throttle him. What about the days on which she might pick up her master’s degree, run a company, have a child, win the presidency? What about the day, already past, on which she fell in love with her betrothed, surely...
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Sacrificing Women for Peace / What’s Shocking?:... →
Yes, of course, sacrifices will have to be made. By whom? Women’s rights = “some concessions”? Being realistic means that we should we realistically get over the fact that women’s rights in Afghanistan are expendable if the issue of their rights gets in the way of us getting out of there?
Now, I am not advocating that we stay in Afghanistan forever. I’m not even saying that we...
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“The bus tour is a total sham, plain and simple. NOM’s highly-touted bus tour is...”
– HRC | HRC to National Organization for Marriage: Your Summer Bus Tour is a Sham
n events in seven states, NOM has routinely played to crowds reportedly as small as two dozen people including NOM staff members. The organization’s public statements on the bus tour have barely mentioned the content...
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Horrors! President Obama decides to talk to adult... →
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Target donates large sum to an anti-gay,... →
Target Corp. on Tuesday defended the use of its new freedom to spend money on political campaigns as employees and gay organizations criticized a $150,000 donation that will help a Minnesota GOP gubernatorial candidate who opposes gay marriage. …[Rep. Tom] Emmer lauds Arizona’s strict approach to illegal immigration and once advocated chemical castration for sex offenders.
Et tu,...
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“They are portraying this as a religious moral issue and as a threat to ‘the...”
– Argentinian President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner responding to protests over the legalization of same-sex marriage made by the Catholic Church.
What I wouldn’t give for a U.S. President with the courage to say the same.
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And in the First Season, that Country Didn't Even... →
…There are some shows that go completely beyond the pale of enjoyability, until they become nothing more than overwritten collections of tropes impossible to watch without groaning. I think the worst offender here is the History Channel and all their programs on the so-called “World War II”. Let’s start with the bad guys. Battalions of stormtroopers dressed in all black, check....
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Everything That Is Wrong With Our Media →
Sarah Palin releases a web video in which she pays women to dress like bears and pretend to maul socialism or something.
Cable news covers it ad nauseum, and justifies its coverage by saying everyone’s talking about it, even though “everyone” literally only means the people who are talking about how much everyone else is talking about it. The discussion of the discussion is then discussed on...
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Guess Who Hates You →
Gallagher gets a tin pie plate. He opens a giant can of fruit cocktail and pours it in. He opens a can of some Asian vegetable — water chestnuts, maybe — and pours that in, too. “This is the China people and queers!!!” he screams and takes his sledgehammer to the thing with a fury that is no fun at all.
No fun at all, and no joke at all in using a sledgehammer against a representation...
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The Saturday Profile - Icelander’s Campaign Is a... →
Last month, in the depressed aftermath of the country’s financial collapse, the Best Party emerged as the biggest winner in Reykjavik’s elections, with 34.7 percent of the vote, and Mr. Gnarr — who also promised a classroom of kindergartners he would build a Disneyland at the airport — is now the fourth mayor in four years of a city that is home to more than a third of the island’s 320,000 people.
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“The internet’s completely over. I don’t see why I should give my new...”
– Prince, on why he banned his music from iTunes and YouTube and closed down his personal site.
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“I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great...”
– Letter from a Birmingham Jail, Martin Luther King, Jr., 1963
Every so often, I re-read this letter.
I ran across it again tonight, and this excerpt stood out to me as a parallel to my own frustrations at the the “civil unions for everyone” people or the “let’s do away with...
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“He inserted his male attachment into the female adapter, and watched his...”
– Tiger Beatdown › Fond Memories of Vagina: Martin Amis’ The Pregnant Widow
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Presidential scholars: Bush is the worst president... →
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“Keep in mind again, federal candidates, this was a war of Obama’s choosing. This...”
– RNC Chair Michael Steele
And only slightly less well known is this: never go against a Sicilian when death is on the line!
(Also? The war in Afganistan started in 2001, when Obama was a state senator in Illinois.)