Try scratching it, dummy. Scratching it’s not a sin.
July 19, 2004
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.
July 19, 2004
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
July 19, 2004
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
July 19, 2004
William Munny introduces Bill Daggett to the ways of philosophical naturalism
Munny: “Deserve’s got nothin’ to do with it.”
July 19, 2004
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
July 19, 2004
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
July 19, 2004
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)
July 19, 2004
Tenth in a series of real-time empirical observations
In the time it takes you to read this post, Al Gore will have thought back to the 2000 elections 677 times. In 39 of those instances, he admits to himself that he deserved to lose; in the other 638 instances, he soundly thrashes Dubya and Cheney using Matrix-style aerial Kung-fu techniques he’s learned from his secret concubine, Lucy Liu. Who has a tongue like a velvet waterfall.