Posted in Transit on December 30, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
15K people per hour, by transport mode (Frumination)
This is worthless without a monorail. Shit, maybe the monorail would have destroyed the curve and made all the other modes of transportation weep in abject despair.
(tags: traffic cars city transport)
Screw you, Chrysler. You can’t take this away from me.
Chrysler crushes dreams. Time Magazine is there to [...]
Posted in Mommy Wars on December 20, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Oh my god, Women write books! About stuff that happens to them in their lives! And one of these things is sometimes motherhood! Crazy!
Posted in Sex on December 20, 2006 | 1 Comment »
A study released yesterday by the Guttmacher Institute finds that premarital sex is “nearly universal” among Americans, and has been since the 1950s.
The vast majority of Americans have sex before marriage, including those who abstained from sex during their teenage years, according to “Trends in Premarital Sex in the United States, 1954–2003,” by Lawrence B. [...]
Posted in Pop Culture on December 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
If anyone followed the Project Runway this year, Kayne designed a stella dress for Tara Conner a Miss. USA pagent girl. (Hell, does anyone still watch that show, except to see the Kayne design?)
Anyway, looks like Trump likes giving second chances. The boozing, supposed coke sniffing underage pagent party girl is still representing the U-S-A. [...]
Posted in Democrats, Libertarians on December 19, 2006 | 1 Comment »
New Republic tells libertarians to fuck off
I don’t blame libertarians for wanting more than the lesser of two evils. But, when your beliefs are wildly unpopular, supporting the lesser of two evils is about the best you can expect.
ouch.
Posted in Pop Culture on December 19, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
*****News flash ******
I am Time magazine’s person of the year. Amazing, isn’t it? Little did you know that the first post by Raee you’d read you would meet the Time person of the year. It’s pretty damn hard to keep up with all the calls.
The E-Citizen is the person of the year. The one [...]
Posted in Pop Culture on December 18, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
Columbia Journalism Review has a post about Jesus cover stories at newsmagazines which seques into exploration of the Times cover archives, a searchable database of Times covers devoted to various topics.
CJR found that dogs far outweigh cats on Times covers (7 to 2), Darth Vader beats Dick Cheney (4 to 3), and journalism beats [...]
Posted in Second Life, Tipping Points on December 18, 2006 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been resisting this whole Second Life phenomenon for a few months now, despite being inundated with Second Life discussions in all of my classes this semester (i’m a public comm student) and despite the fact that one of my best friends and fellow blogger raee here has become something of the resident second life [...]
Posted in Mommy Wars on December 17, 2006 | 2 Comments »
(or, follow our normative heterosexual agenda or else we’ll talk really bad about you behind your back, imply something is wrong with you and shame you implicitly)
For some reason this myspace blog post from a friend of mine really struck a chord in me:
My sister-in-law beams at me from across the room, the twinkling [...]
Posted in Mommy Wars on December 13, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Hipper-than-thou Eliza Gonzalez Clark has an article over at the San Franciso chronicle lamenting some of her friends’ lifestyle decisions. More specifically, she’s pissed that they’re now changing diapers instead of making out with strangers in club parking lots. Or something like that. Regardless, Clark wants you to know that she is Punk. Rawk. And [...]
Posted in Pop Culture on December 13, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
We have reached a point where the reinvention of America is impossible, even if that were what we wanted. Even if that were what everybody wanted.
Perhaps. Although I’m gonna say this speaks to optimism right here:
You might think the government is corrupt, and you might be right. But I’m surprised it isn’t worse. I’m [...]
Posted in Blogging Bandwagon, Democrats, Libertarians on December 12, 2006 | 3 Comments »
At the risk of further contributing to a debate I’ve recently come to hate, I can’t help but muse on the whole recent “liberaltarian” conundrum. It’s an issue I feel like I’ve been reading incessantly about since David Boaz at Cato published “The Libertarian Vote” in October, and with Brink Lindsey’s coining of a term, [...]
