December 2011
I'll explain later but there is something you must...
I eat my ihop omelets with lots of cholua’s hot sauce and lots of maple syrup and god damn the person who tells me love is wrong.
Holy Crap, I've Found A Takedown Of Thomas... →
journalofajournalist:
Money quote:An array of disclaimers and metaphorical qualifications begins to surface around page 536, such that it ultimately appears that the book might have been more appropriately titled The World Is Sometimes Indefinitely Maybe Partially Flat—But Don’t Worry, I Know It’s Not, or perhaps The World Is Flat, Except for the Part That Is Un-Flat and the Twilight Zone Where...
November 2011
Waiting for class to start
With instructor username: thebombbag.
yitzytaughtme replied to your post: yitzytaughtme replied to your post: yitzytaughtme…
Oh hey it’s Sex and the City. And I may have been forced to watch the movie when in a relationship once. Shame on me.
Sex and the City happened. just like Queer as folk, which was equally bad.
yitzytaughtme replied to your post: yitzytaughtme replied to your link: How to Make it…
Entourage is just Sex in the City. For dudebros.
OOOOOOOOOOooof, that sounds awful.
yitzytaughtme replied to your link: How to Make it in America sounds like an awful show.
It’s entourage in New York. But vaguely about fashion.
Entourage always sounded like an awful show too.
How to Make it in America sounds like an awful... →
Why do we bother with Legislatures? →
If you aren’t interested in retaining the power you have as a governing body and you want to give it to another governing body, why are you there?
The bill, introduced Wednesday, is very similar to the Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act of 2011 that Van Hollen introduced in March. It is not clear if Ryan’s backing for the idea, which President Obama has supported in the past, means that...
“Mr. Gingrich’s unprovoked attack on the C.B.O. is part of a pattern. He disdains...”
– Bruce Bartlett
h/t Sullivan
(via letterstomycountry)
This is actually pretty interesting and fits a pattern for Gingrich in both his actions in Congress and his silly writings ( as in who are bad guys -usually entities that place checks on things- and good guys- “mavricks” usually...
WaPo Style Section:
Look everyone, THAT ONE SINGS!
JasenComstock: Black Cat, Black Cat →
chrisafer:
washingtonpoststyle:
If you live in Washington, and if you’ve ever strolled down 14th Street on the night of a show at the Black Cat, then you probably knew Black Cat Bill, the homeless man with the sonorous baritone who politely panhandled and held court over the long line of hipsterish…
He’s not dead!
DCist and those other blahgs got it wrong.
he’s almost dead! I think...
COLA means $796,871 pension for ex-fire chief if... →
ohhleary:
Another disgusting abuse of public pensions in Rhode Island, thanks to 5-6% annual cost-of-living-adjustments.
When was the last time you got a 6% annual raise without doing anything?
By the way, that’s not $796,871 total over his lifetime. That’s $796,871 a year if he lives to 100. He’s already collecting $185,672 in taxpayer money this year. He served as the Providence Fire Chief...
Black Cat, Black Cat
washingtonpoststyle:
If you live in Washington, and if you’ve ever strolled down 14th Street on the night of a show at the Black Cat, then you probably knew Black Cat Bill, the homeless man with the sonorous baritone who politely panhandled and held court over the long line of hipsterish patrons waiting to get in for a show.
I used to live two blocks from the Black Cat and would see Bill every...
Attention Username: SleeplessinSouthie →
FOX 25 in Boston decided to go after Kevin Hogan, an English teacher and crew coach at top-rated Mystic Valley Regional Charter School in Malden, Massachusetts, after discovering that he had appeared in several gay porn films under the name Hytch Cawke. Their reporter confronted him in a parking lot.
Hogan has now been placed on paid administrative leave:
The school released a statement...
i want to open a greek sandwich shop called...
labombaantieverything:
jasencomstock:
adeandabet:
I’d invest.
“I need a gyro”
But real people pronounce it juh-eye-ro, so these puns will only work with people who aren’t worth caring about.
what if the gyro’s had two styles: Strong and Fast or both: Strong could have spicy gyro meat, and red pepper hummus and fast could be all veggies and both would be way too complicated to...
i want to open a greek sandwich shop called...
adeandabet:
I’d invest.
“I need a gyro”
I can't even tell you how excited I am that it's...
l3fan-o-rama:
themattsmith:
I love this time of year. 15º-35ºF is my sweet spot.
a-fucking-men. my snowshoes have been calling my name for 2 weeks. LET’S GET IT ON!
FREAKS!!
“The Occupy Wall Street movement that began in New York in September has spread...”
– There, buried at the very bottom of the article, is the change beginning. For months now, the news media has played dumb to the Occupy movement’s intentions. “What do you want?” “Why can’t they decide why they’re here?” etc. That has finally stopped, and the media is acknowledging the cause. ...
What kind of huge idiot loser do you have to be to...
ocatbusmycatbus:
Thinking out loud here.
I’ll be right back with a list
“Here you have a power-mad, office-abusing sheriff who has misspent millions in...”
– Radley Balko, Arpaio Endorses Perry | The Agitator (via jeffmiller)
and he’s campaigning with him in New Hampshire! Who told him this was a good idea? I can see Perry and Arpaio like, “what are we going to talk about with the crowd?” “Guns?” “do you like guns, we...
“I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via apoplecticskeptic)
For some reason I would bet most Americans know Jefferson hated corporations and they know Jackson defeated the National bank and I don’t know why that is important considering almost no one knows when, who, or why we have a country totally different...
HA HA!
Senate OKs Controversial Detainee Provision, Setting Up Fight With White House
The Senate soundly defeated a move to strip out controversial language requiring mandatory detention of some terror suspects, voting it down 61-to-37 and escalating a fight with the Obama administration over the future course of the war on terror.
The proposed amendment to the massive National Defense Authorization...
sleeplessinsouthie replied to your link: Adventures in Journalism
You also have that Moonie newspaper, no?
yeah the Washington Times. We also have the Washington Examiner which consists of an ad on a bus that says, “Freedom isn’t Free.” The Times has actual journalists- they are just policed at work by fucking wackos.
Adventures in Journalism →
So Politico is trash, but, have you seen the other local paper I have to deal with? They are jizzing themselves here at the thought that Politico, like all journalism, is shitting itself like a geriatric:
Could the vaunted business model of Politico be faltering?
How otherwise to explain this morning’s edition of Playbook, written by longtime Washington journalist Mike Allen? At the top of the...
My thoughts on the Herman Cain affair story
chrisafer:
Some people will do anything for free pizza.
This is why I won’t even run for condo board president.
I’d rather my husband “cheat” on me than serve me divorce papers while I’m in the hospital with cancer.
I kind of want pizza now.
I won’t run for my condo board because everyone is fucking insane and I would last about 5 minutes in that job.
JasenComstock: Herman Cain is reassessing his... →
duckandpenguin:
duckandpenguin:
jasencomstock:
duckandpenguin:
jasencomstock:
thebombbag:
And I continue to be amazed at the fact that there are people out there who continue to risk destroying their party by believing that they simply would not get caught. Can you imagine if…
Oh that’s fine; I don’t really care either: the harassment is serious, this is not. But. It’s more...
Herman Cain is reassessing his campaign, which...
duckandpenguin:
jasencomstock:
duckandpenguin:
jasencomstock:
thebombbag:
And I continue to be amazed at the fact that there are people out there who continue to risk destroying their party by believing that they simply would not get caught. Can you imagine if Edwards got the Democratic nod or Weiner took a shot at the senate or Cain was the Republican nominee or etc, etc, etc. What is...
Herman Cain is reassessing his campaign, which...
duckandpenguin:
jasencomstock:
thebombbag:
And I continue to be amazed at the fact that there are people out there who continue to risk destroying their party by believing that they simply would not get caught. Can you imagine if Edwards got the Democratic nod or Weiner took a shot at the senate or Cain was the Republican nominee or etc, etc, etc. What is it about these people who THRUST...
Andrew Sullivan records his British Mass Transit... →
oh wait, I was just close.
Herman Cain is reassessing his campaign, which...
thebombbag:
And I continue to be amazed at the fact that there are people out there who continue to risk destroying their party by believing that they simply would not get caught. Can you imagine if Edwards got the Democratic nod or Weiner took a shot at the senate or Cain was the Republican nominee or etc, etc, etc. What is it about these people who THRUST themselves into the spotlight and try...
Barney Frank Gets Pounded by the Right all day... →
That would wear on anyone.
Works cited
shitmystudentswrite:
“JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie.” JSTOR: An Error Occurred Setting Your User Cookie. N.p., n.d. Web. 4 Nov. 2011
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Penultimate reminder! Write Right Now!
thebombbag:
jasencomstock:
thebombbag:
Only two days left to register for Write Right Now. This is the shortened, three-day course that’s going to serve as a trial run for the longer course that starts next semester. The theme for the three days will likely be: 1) How to Write (Something Terrible) Everyday, 2) Wear the Skin!, and 3) Religious Western Sci-Fi Steampunk-core. There’ll be a lot...
“Mr. Frank is incapable of feeling shame, regret or a sense of personal...”
– Tell us how you really feel about Barney Frank, Karl Rove. While you’re doing so, here’s a soundtrack to play while you’re talking. (thanks Awl)
If Frank stayed America would suffer another 9/11, ammirite Karl?
(via zainyk)
lol 