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July 19, 2004

Help Wanted

Help blogger Mark O’Brien find his son’s killer. You can read his story here, in the New York Post. Michele has more.

A voice in my head, 1:57 PM, July 19:

Try scratching it, dummy.  Scratching it’s not a sin.

Misdirection (aka, the beach blanket bingo entry)

Know what I’m in the mood for?  A clambake.  A groovy groovy clambake.  Which beats the hell out of abortion talk.  Plus, there’re clams.  Which are cool to begin with.

protein wisdom intertextuality

You know what’ll make it better?  Whine about it.

Some California legislators are angry with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger after he referred to them as “girlie-men” during a speech on Saturday. The movie star-turned-politican used the term to describe opposition Democrats he said who are too weak to stand up to unions and trial lawyers demanding changes in the governor’s state budget proposal. The phrase comes from an old television comedy routine where two Schwarzengger-like bodybuilders use it to mock

You know what’ll make it better?  Whine about it.

Some California legislators are angry with Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger after he referred to them as “girlie-men” during a speech on Saturday. The movie star-turned-politican used the term to describe opposition Democrats he said who are too weak to stand up to unions and trial lawyers demanding changes in the governor’s state budget proposal. The phrase comes from an old television comedy routine where two Schwarzengger-like bodybuilders use it to mock

William Munny introduces Bill Daggett to the ways of philosophical naturalism

Munny: “Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.”

Dude, where’s my gigantic lunch?

Writing in the Boston Globe, Cathy Young examines Michael Moore’s anti-US populism: So who, exactly, is this populist hero? Moore isn’t just antiwar and anti-Bush; he is also virulently anti-American. That’s a label some right-wing pundits tend to slap on anyone critical of the war and of President Bush. In Moore’s case, however, the label fits. Moore, the 50-year-old filmmaker and author of several books, has made a career of

Dude, where’s my gigantic lunch?

Writing in the Boston Globe, Cathy Young examines Michael Moore’s anti-US populism: So who, exactly, is this populist hero? Moore isn’t just antiwar and anti-Bush; he is also virulently anti-American. That’s a label some right-wing pundits tend to slap on anyone critical of the war and of President Bush. In Moore’s case, however, the label fits. Moore, the 50-year-old filmmaker and author of several books, has made a career of

The abridged Alex S. Jones* post

“I mean, I have academic degrees.  Doesn’t that mean anything to you filthy, twittering, easily-duped blogpeasants?” *Alex S. Jones is director of the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government.  Not that that makes him better than you, just that—well, okay.  So maybe it does make him better than you… **** more:  from Matt Welch, uberhipster (h/t Beck)