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November 13, 2011

Hell yeah. Once the GOP failfest ends (and, alas, someday the fun must end), one candidate will be left standing who must run against Sir Change-a-Lot. The incumbent, in turn, needs to find something with which to fire up the masses — you know, the ones he promised this, that, and the other four years…

November 9, 2011

Christie’s just sold this photo at auction for a record setting $4.3 million. No, really. They did. No offense to Mr. Gursky (the “artist”), who no doubt worked long and hard to surgically remove any element of even passing interest from the picture, but WTF? Look, I’m all for “different” approaches to landscape photography and…

October 28, 2011

Across the United States, common sense is being replaced by ignorant, institutionalized paranoia, and as a consequence, professional grade morons with guns are empowered (and paid for by the tax payers) to impersonate law enforcement personnel and arrest random people merely for taking pictures in public.Which. Is. Not. Illegal. Now, it would be one thing…

October 28, 2011

Across the United States, common sense is being replaced by ignorant, institutionalized paranoia, and as a consequence, professional grade morons with guns are empowered (and paid for by the tax payers) to impersonate law enforcement personnel and arrest random people merely for taking pictures in public.Which. Is. Not. Illegal. Now, it would be one thing…

October 27, 2011

Oakland has lots of reason to regret their choice of Attila the Quan as mayor. After sending her paramilitary police in to clear out the Occupy Wall Street protesters using any means necessary, Jean Quan is now all, “Oh, hey, I’m totally for what you’re doing; let’s have a friendly conversation about this”: We have…

October 27, 2011

Oakland has lots of reason to regret their choice of Attila the Quan as mayor. After sending her paramilitary police in to clear out the Occupy Wall Street protesters using any means necessary, Jean Quan is now all, “Oh, hey, I’m totally for what you’re doing; let’s have a friendly conversation about this”: We have…

October 26, 2011

It’s pretty hard to lower the bar further for the Washington Post, really. Largely irrelevant as a source of genuine news, so thoroughly and willingly corrupted has it become by its position as the beltway’s primary propaganda outlet, that it is little more than a relic of a time where print mattered and journalists were…

October 21, 2011

Okay, if I hear or see another ad hyping some random pink-i-fied product I may just have to scream. Seriously. The ridiculous pinkwashing campaign spearheaded by the Susan G. Komen Foundation is now more than ever a meaningless marketing gimmick undertaken with cynical profit-hungry companies, foisted on gullible consumers eager to “make a difference” while …

August 11, 2011

I was going to snark away at the economics of this — I mean, how can you not? After all, here’s a solid Red State, supposedly home of fiscally conservative tea-bagging patriot who are all for free market economy (albeit with an old-school southern D at the helm — which I guess is basically a…

August 11, 2011

I was going to snark away at the economics of this — I mean, how can you not? After all, here’s a solid Red State, supposedly home of fiscally conservative tea-bagging patriot who are all for free market economy (albeit with an old-school southern D at the helm — which I guess is basically a…