Canadian Justice James J. Keaney found a 75-year-old man guilty of issuing death threats against a city official after the man posted a poem about burying her in a pothole around the neighborhood in which she refused to fix potholes. The man claimed it was satire.
Keaney (said) because Batista does not have a high level [...]
Archive for July, 2007
judge rules satire privilege of the elite
Posted in Free Speech on July 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Reproductive Choice = perfect demonic system to worship the devil
Posted in Conservative Craziness, Reproductive Rights, What the Fuck? on July 31, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Oh my god, they’re on to us. That’s right. The largest “pro-life” organization in the world, Human Life International, has stumbled upon us pro-choicers’ dirty little secret.
It was bad enough when people knew we were all just degenerate liberals, dreaded atheists, or — god forbid — baby-hating feminists. But now the president of Human Life [...]
Tacoma school board unable to fire principal convicted of raping former student
Posted in Education, Violence Against Women on July 31, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Via Reason , a middle-school principle in Washington state who was convicted of felony rape charges but is still getting paid to serve as principal.
Wright, 36, continues to collect his $8,245-a-month salary, something he’s been doing since February, when he was first charged. So far, the district appears to have paid him at [...]
My Guide for Getting Men Laid
Posted in Gender, Sex on July 31, 2007 | 13 Comments »
It seems DC-dating-scene blogger Roosh V has written an entire book telling men how to get laid, titled “Bang: the average man’s modern guide to getting laid.”
In my humble opinion, anyone who needs an entire book telling them how to get laid is actually never going to get laid. Ever. Anyone who even has [...]
How dare you worry about anything else when there are poor people out there and the publishing industry has been hijacked by soap companies
Posted in Media, What the Fuck? on July 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
So I know I said earlier that I was sure the Republicans-love-Simpsons-because-it-espouses-family-values bit would be the stupidest thing I read all day, but …
Along comes Cary Tennis, Salon advice columnist extraordinaire and perennial favorite of people who like to point out dumb things in the media …
In today’s column, someone wrote [...]
Belmar cops: in ur blogz, monitoring ur lame spring break stories
Posted in Bloggers, Digi-stalking, Privacy on July 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
So AP reports
Monitoring blogs is the newest tactic in Belmar’s long-running effort to keep its notoriously rowdy group rentals under control in one of the Jersey shore’s last true party towns.
The article covers the beach town’s metamophisis from land of summer-rental-party-houses to land of fancy shmany condiminums, and how this has led to a police [...]
Dumbest Thing I’ve Read All Day: Young Republicans watch the Simpsons not because it’s, you know, funny, but for the family values….
Posted in Pop Culture, Republicans on July 30, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I suppose it’s kind of a cop-out to pick the “dumbest thing I’ve read all day” from the first news article I’ve read this morning, but I just really can’t imagine reading anything more silly today than the quotes in this:
In a 2002 National Review Online op-ed titled “Homer, Conservative Hero,” Deroy Murdock wrote, [...]
how many times can I type AWESOME in all caps in one post?
Posted in Me on July 27, 2007 | 3 Comments »
I’m back from Ohio. I have a REALLY AWESOME video of a fat man dancing shirtless at my favorite karaoke joint to share with you, but unfortunately it’s on my home computer and I am at work. You will have to wait. But it’s worth it. Actually, I don’t know if it’s worth it, I [...]
Adventures in short-blogging
Posted in Bloggers on July 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Shorter Don Surber: Liberals swear a lot.
Shorter Amanda Marcotte: Fuck off.
Making that choice a choice
Posted in Democrats, Feminism, Framing, Journalism, Reproductive Rights on July 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The L.A. Times has an article today titled “Democrats shift approach on abortion.” Here is how it opens.
Sensing an opportunity to impress religious voters — and tip elections — Democrats in Congress and on the campaign trail have begun to adopt some of the language and policy goals of the antiabortion movement.
The rest of the [...]
Clinton, the pink jacket, and thoughts about cleavage
Posted in Feminism, Gender, Snarking, Would-Be Presidents on July 25, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’ll admit it. I saw the headline of this column (“Pretty Formidable in Pink“) and I was so ready to pounce with my snark claws extended. Here comes another vacuous article about the fact that Hillary is a woman and whether the country is ready and the other day we saw cleavage and did we [...]
It’s just a gentlemanly game of checking out that ass
Posted in Feminism, Gender, Sex on July 24, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Amanda Marcotte at Pandagon comments on the passive aggressive nature of Cary Tennis’s advice/response to this letter.
Basically, a women writes in to complain about her catch of a boyfriend who has a habit of oogling other women when she’s around.
Cary Tennis warns the letter-writer not to get too nagging by trying to discipline him or [...]
Priorities
Posted in Journalism, Media, Pop Culture, Snarking on July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Sloooow news day.
Oh, sure, there was that debate last night.
The Attorney General is testifying before the Senate amidst numerous constitutional controversies.
Six medical workers in Libya were finally freed after 8 years.
And there’s that war somewhere over there. And over there. And maybe, possibly, eventually over there.
But isn’t there something else we can talk about? Something, [...]
Welcome to America, Guvnor. We’ll be watching you.
Posted in Privacy, What the Fuck? on July 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Is this really necessary to our national security?
Highly sensitive information about the religious beliefs, political opinions and even the sex life of Britons travelling to the United States is to be made available to US authorities when the European Commission agrees to a new system of checking passengers.
The EC is in the final stages of [...]
Unions in the New Economy
Posted in Economics, Libertarians on July 23, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Note – Elyzabethe is on vacation for the next few days and will be spending that time sipping 40s out of brown paper bags and sitting on various porches in Ohio. What else is there to do in Ohio?
Last week Professor of Law and Economics at the University of Pennsylvania Law School published an [...]
“We only have room for the right wing.”
Posted in Journalism, Media, PR on July 23, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a pretty hilarious video here at DailyKos with a parody of a JetBlue pre-flight video.
For those who don’t already know, JetBlue is the corporate sponsor for the YearlyKos convention this year, which prompted a Talking Points segment from Bill O’Reilly. O’Reilly engineered a Michael Moore type ambush of the CEO of JetBlue, David [...]
“Crack-dealing piece of trash”
Posted in City Life, Drugs, Ohio on my Mind on July 23, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Cleveland Councilman Mike Polensek apparently makes a habit of writing letters to “troublemakers” in his neighborhood. The Cleveland Plain Dealer has an article up about one of those letters because a mother is calling it racist and claims the councilman is threatening to kill her son.
Winston’s mother, Tonya Lewis, said she plans to speak [...]
Obama’s package on C-SPAN2!!!!
Posted in Gender, Media on July 20, 2007 | 4 Comments »
There was package on display Wednesday afternoon on C-SPAN2. It belonged to Sen. Barack Obama. He was talking on the Senate floor about the burdensome cost of higher education. He was wearing a black blazer over black slacks. The slacks were tight around his mid-section, especially in the front. The bulge of his package registered [...]
commiserate, would-be writers
Posted in Me on July 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Dammit. Don’t you hate when someone writes the book you would like to write if only you were motivated and together enough to write a book?
One more reason to ban all abortions in Ohio: Because rape babies are just too awesome!
Posted in Ohio on my Mind, Reproductive Rights, What the Fuck? on July 19, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Having a rapist’s baby is so empowering. I mean, imagine you’re raped, right? And then you find out you’re pregnant. Sure, you might feel hurt, angry, depressed, scared, worried about how to take care of the child, etc. You might even consider having an abortion. Or giving the baby up for adoption. But think [...]
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