Remember that question (asked of Miss Teen USA South Carolina) about how American students were having trouble finding the United States on the map?
(Via David Kurtz at TPM) Here’s President Bush talking about Southern Louisiana:
“[T]he taxpayers and people from all around the country have got to understand the people of this part of the world [...]
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Um, Mr. President?
Posted in Bush, Snarking, What the Fuck?, katrina, politics on August 30, 2007 | 3 Comments »
Put the Video Camera Down!
Posted in Put the Video Camera Down!, Random, Snarking on August 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I think I’m going to start a semi-regular feature here at Yellow is the Color. Every time I watch an incredibly embarrassing YouTube video that makes me laugh and ashamed to be a human being, I’ll post it here as a part of the newly established Put the Video Camera Down! [...]
The Climate Emergency Fast
Posted in Facebook, Snarking, activism, global warming on August 27, 2007 | 4 Comments »
I just got an invitation via facebook to join the “Climate Emergency Fast,” which is basically a thing where you agree not to eat for a day, from wherever you are, in order to raise awareness for global climate issues. The day for this fast is September 4th.
I support activism as much as the next guy. And [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
girls and boys in america…
Posted in Feminism, Pop Culture, Snarking on April 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Because of school projects, my printed word diet lately has consisted solely of a strange combination of articles about copyright and 1990s issues of Us and People magazines (and, as a break, Elements of Style by the late great Wendy Wasserstein), but today I finally got around to catching up on some news/blog reading. Things [...]
if you were eight blocks past uncertainty, five houses down from hope and you made a wrong turn at sentimentalism….
Posted in City Life, Journalism, Snarking on April 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
My current apartment building is like a mini United Nations, there are so many different races and ethnicities living here. What’s strange, however, is I don’t see these people around the neighborhood, only in the building. The neighborhood I live in — upper NW DC — is one of the whitest, yuppiest places you’ve ever [...]
Why did the blonde get fired from the M&M factory?
Posted in Snarking on March 27, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Via Asapacker, a twist on some old racist/sexist jokes:
Why did the blonde get fired from the M&M factory?
Repeated absences and stealing.
A black man is going to get a vasectomy. He shows up to the doctor’s office wearing a suit. The doctor asks, “Why are you wearing a suit?”
The black man replies, “I just got [...]
“It takes two minutes to say someone’s got herpes”
Posted in Generation Gaps, PR, Pop Culture, Snarking on March 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This article muses on the possible detrimental effects that posting scandalous pictures on the internet might have on today’s twentysomethings’ careers as young professionals. It used to all hinge on an interview, but more and more companies are looking on the internet for a more, shall we say, comprehensive view of job candidates. In a [...]
Dude, Space has Totally Jumped the Shark
Posted in Snarking on January 3, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Hey kids, I’m not sure if you know this, but apparently there’s this theory that people our age are cynical and apathetic. According to CNN, NASA just grepped this. I don’t want to ruin it for you, but apparently we’re all pretty disillusioned with the whole slipping-the-surly-bonds-of-earth thing.
So without further ado, here’s a brief [...]
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