August 2008
26 posts
I hope Jane Smiley is wrong ...
when she says that,
“… what Sarah Palin shows is that once again, the right wing is adept at turning the women’s movement upside down and offering us a woman who reinforces patriarchal power rather than challenges it.”
I fear what she says in this article is correct, but I hope not. But one thing is certain - anyone who thinks she’s a good sub for Hillary simply...
“The day’s hike began at the waypoint “Trailhead”. Our first...”
– A hiker’s experience at Pedernales Falls State Park
Dead Sea Scrolls go from parchment to the Internet... →
Of all the news stories today, this is my pick.
INDUSTORIOUS CLOCK ||| MONO*CRAFTS3.0 →
This sucked me in, kinda like watching a lava lamp. And then it made me feel guilty as I watched the minutes of my life flee by.
Dear Drunk Drivers (aka Dumbasses),
I hope that your night of drunkenness was worth the possibilities you were so intimately dancing with tonight.
I hope you understand one day how thoughtless and inconsiderate you were to swerve like that in and out of traffic, speeding up and slowing down, nearly missing oncoming cars.
Mostly, I hope you don’t hit someone and kill them. Or yourself.
I hope one day you wake up and realize...
“If your original Hebrew disagrees with my original King James —- your...”
– I couldn’t pick one of these that I thought was worst, because they all were.
What is this? It’s the FSTDT Top 100
AKA Fundies Say the Darnedest Things Top 100, the most head-scratching, deplorable, asinine, bigoted, idiotic, terrifying and just plain weird quotes submitted. ...
The Associated Press: Documents: Julia Child was a... →
It’s hard to believe that she was a spy, isn’t it? I mean, that can’t be right. SHE’S A COOK, for pete’s sake. And Moe Berg, too?
“Last year, an obscure federal panel ordered a doubling of the per-song...”
– Pandora is considering shutting its doors because of royalties that specifically target (and, one might say, penalize) Internet radio stations. Time to write your congress-person.
Pandora, Giant of Internet Radio Nears Its ‘Last Stand’ - washingtonpost.com
Conversation with a young lady working at...
Me: Do you have any chocolate-covered espresso beans, please?
Her: Um ... I don't think so.
Me: I've seen them before at Starbucks, beside the register.
Her: Um, I don't think so.
Me: Ok, well, thank you anyway.
Her: Oh, wait ... you mean HERE. Oh! Wait, let me check.
Me: ...
WatchDear Person: (a) find a spell checker, (b) I appreciate your concern for the environment, however you might want to do some fact-checking before making yourself a public laughingstock by posting paranoid, ignorant videos to the web.
Dear School Administrators, Junior High and High School Teachers: This is a shining example of what happens when you maintain a school district policy of passing kids...
Olympics: China switches out child singer for... →
I fail to see how a seven-year-old child’s uneven teeth could be damaging to China’s international reputation and image or possibly have any effect whatsoever on anyone’s national culture.
There appear to be many things about China’s government that I fail to understand. To me, this is making a really big deal of nothing (“this is an extremely important, extremely...
Grandma arrested for driving with child on roof →
I just don’t have words for this.
“It’s like these guys take pride in being ignorant.”
– Barack Obama (Quote O’ the Day)
Breathing Inertia Of The Hasty Force →
A random generator for BAND NAMES. Who knows, you too could start a band named “Laced Zombie and the Temple” or “Hot Pink Father” or even “Dramatic of the Elusive.”
John McCain ad irritates many in Hollywood - Los... →
I’m curious to see the ad now … looks like McCain put his foot in his mouth, but I’ll wait to see what I think …