I wish I knew how to embed it. But fuck. I’m drinking Absinthe, and the green fairie don’t do html. So here. Warning: graphic images of graphic images. But no pooter. I have my pride, after all. And, you know — a penis.
August 23, 2008
Terms of Endearment
When, say, Trent Lott makes a “racially insensitive” remark (even one I happen to believe, despite my noted dislike for Lott, he did not intend), Democrats and the mainstream press depict those comments as a kind of slipping of the mask, behind which lurks the ugly manifestation of a black-hearted racist. Yet when Joe Biden, Barack Obama’s ubiquitously Brylcreemed VP pick, makes “racially insensitive” remarks of a far less roundabout
August 22, 2008
RACISMISTS!
It’s not just for evil right wing rethuglicans anymore! A prominent Philadelphia attorney and Hillary Clinton supporter filed suit this afternoon in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania against Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and the Democratic National Committee. The action seeks an injunction preventing the senator from continuing his candidacy and a court order enjoining the DNC from nominating him next week, all on grounds that
August 22, 2008
MADD hatters
From David Harsanyi, writing in the Denver Post: What happens when presidents from more than 100 of the nation’s best-known colleges call on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18? Well, a brigade of hyperbolic mommies start screaming at them, that’s what. In the Amethyst Initiative, college presidents have offered a rational, if counterintuitive, plan. Let’s stop treating young adults like wards of the state. Mothers
August 20, 2008
New soul shrapnel
Or, if you prefer, podcast 4. ( .wav version available here; text version, here. So that you can read along and see where I stumbled.)
August 19, 2008
The effect of gamma rays on man-in-the-moon marigolds, where “gamma rays” are really Tylenol 3 with codeine, and “man-in-the-moon Marigolds” is really an increasingly disillusioned catch wrestler-in-training with one of his digits being essentially held together by medical duct tape
Or, podcast number 3. You choose. (WMV version here.)
August 19, 2008
Dr Zaius, elder from the Planet of the Apes, and Friedrich Nietzsche: a time-bending philosophical disquisition in two parts
___________________ Part I.
August 19, 2008
Foucault’s (relativistic) Pendulum, anthropomorphized
F(r)P: “Whatever, baby. I swing both ways, you dig?”* **** ancient rebuttal from the postmodern perspective, brought to you by an unlikely source: me. Of course, you know me. I would never let me get away with such argument without fleshing it out a bit more.
August 18, 2008
(Not) Just another manic Monday
— in fact, today happens to be a very special Monday, it being my son’s first ever day of school. Hard to believe. And sure, it’s only pre-K, and he’ll only be gone about 12 hours a week — but to me, it’s going to feel a lot longer than that. My heart is sad. Though on the plus side: