November 2008
2 dead after shots fired in SoCal Toys 'R' Us →
Two people were shot to death in a crowded toy store on Black Friday in a confrontation apparently involving rival groups, city officials said.
Barack Obama has never fired a gun? →
Hey, remember that 8-year-old boy who accidentally shot himself in the head with a submachine gun while his dad and a firearms instructor watched? Yeah, well yesterday was the one month anniversary of that thing.
Fuck guns.
(via soupsoup:randyhaddock:onionvolcano)
Time profiles McCain's ad guy →
“My favorite ad of the campaign was as simple as it could be,” Davis said. “And it started out something like, ‘Long before the world knew of John McCain or Barack Obama, one of them spent five years in a hellhole because he refused early release to honor his fellow prisoners, while the other one wouldn’t walk out of a church after 20 years of the guy spewing hatred...
Blowing Unrepentant Loads
dazza:
This is for all those people who supported Obama and knew that William Ayers was old, old news and can’t we just forget about someone from 40 years ago.
Listen to Ayer’s interview on NPR last week. If you had wanted the Ayers story thrown under a bus, you may feel very, very sad that you did not stand up for him when it mattered.
Obama: "I Don't Think There's Any Question That We... →
This is probably too obvious to point out, but the game here is that Obama is working to frame GOP obstructionism in advance. By simultaneously claiming a mandate while approaching Republicans with “humility” and a request for their help, Obama is boxing out Republican opponents in advance, laying the groundwork to cast them as partisan and hostile to the people’s...
I'm sick of "douchebag."
esandberg:
I think I might start saying doucheball. At least for today.
Dufflebag works for about a half hour.
What Would a 'Great Depression 2009' Look Like?
mikedressel:
Depressing:
The lines wouldn’t be outside soup kitchens but at emergency rooms, and rather than itinerant farmers we could see waves of laid-off office workers leaving homes to foreclosure and heading for areas of the country where there’s more work - or just a relative with a free room over the garage. Already hollowed-out manufacturing cities could be all but deserted, and...
So...
ihavegoodtaste:
I just watched The Wrestler trailer another two times this morning. The obsession is building.
I’m excited about Aronofsky sticking with one dimension for an entire movie.
The Return of the $70 Per Hour Meme →
natashavc:
“The average GM assembly-line worker makes about $28 per hour in wages, and I can assure you that GM is not paying $42 an hour in health insurance and pension plan contributions. Rather, the $70 per hour figure (or $73 an hour, or whatever) is a ridiculous number obtained by adding up GM’s total labor, health, and pension costs, and then dividing by the total number of hours worked. In...
'This state needs someone who cares about this... →
I’m not saying I disagree with Romney’s thing in the Times yesterday. I don’t really agree with it either. Regardless, what a hypocrite the guy is. He is the embodiment of a slimy politician. This is what he had to say about the auto industry back when he was pouring his life savings into becoming president:
I want to bring Michigan back. I am not willing to sit back and say...
dazza:
Fun with the Gender Analyser which uses an algorithm to guess whether a blog is written by a man or a woman. (% is per cent chance)
Amil man (99%) Cam man (86%) Me man (85%) Adam man (69%) Chuck man (67%) David woman (78%)
That all seems right to me.
I’m blaming this on Obama.
What a Bunch of Dicks →
“I don’t believe we need the legislation,” Reid said. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson can tap the financial industry bailout money to help auto companies, Reid said, but “he just doesn’t want to do it.”
Not our responsibility, countered the White House.
“If Congress leaves for a two-month vacation without having addressed this important issue …...
“There is a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying into Washington,...”
– Rep. Gary Ackerman, D-New York to the big three auto executives. (via squashed:robot-heart-politics)
alexbalk:
“The law is aimed primarily at small cigars sold individually at convenience stores and gas stations. Such cigars are often marketed in youth-friendly flavors such as cherry, apple and lime and are sold for as little as 80 cents to $1.
Tobacco stores that specialize in cigar sales, and often sell high-end cigars for as much as $5 apiece or more, are excluded from the...
Um, guys? That store closing email is kind of a... →
esandberg:
Kind of.
Watch them, like dominoes...
robot-heart:jeralyndwile:adeandabet:fareastmeetswildwest:whatcriscilikes:upsider:
Store closings…and the case against buying gift cards this holiday season:
Circuit City closing 155 stores Ann Taylor closing 117 stores nationwide Lane Bryant, Fashion Bug, and Catherine’s to close 150 store nationwide Eddie Bauer to close stores 27 stores, more after January Cache will close all stores...
Zeitgeist
Last night, when Girl Talk stood on top of his table with his shirt off while the final notes of ‘Faithfully’ blasted through Terminal 5, and the balloons fell from the ceiling while a giant projected image of Barack Obama on the cover of Time magazine did 360s on the wall behind him, and I went “I am so going to blog about this,” was easily the most 2008 moment of my...
Chuck Norris is fighting mad!
urg:
Queery picks apart Chuck Norris’ Yes on 8 “op-ed”
“What’s wrong with this picture? Lots. First, there’s the obvious inability of the minority to accept the will of the majority. “
Damn those pesky majorities being upset by the “tyranny of the majority”! Norris might want to read Plato’s Republic, Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America, John Stuart Mill’s On Liberty, Federalist...
Suri Cruise Is World's Most Powerful Tot →
thehandshake: What does this even mean? How do you measure something like that? Does Suri get to “own” the sandbox? Skip knap time? suckle any boob she wants?
chuckmore: Wow. The Jolie-Pitts COMPLETELY dominated the Beckhams. I would have never called that one.
supersonicelectronic:
I really dislike people that remove who they’re re-blogging from.
Oh man that is too subtle he’ll never notice it let me help you out… one sec.
Did Mormons Join Prop 8 Fight to Woo Christian... →