November 21st, 2009

Face it, guys: we all wish we had a penis with the versatility and length and flexibility of the barnacle’s. Penis envy : Pharyngula  

November 20th, 2009

It may be my bias, or my imagination, or my distaste for toil, but from here America looks like one big workhouse, “under God, indivisible, with time off to shit, shower and shop.” A country whose citizens have been reduced to “human assets” of a vast and relentless economic machine, moving human parts oiled by commodities and kept in motion by the edict, “produce or die.” Where employment and a job dominates all other aspects of life, and the loss of which spells the loss of everything. Joe Bageant: The Iron Cheer of Empire  

November 19th, 2009

The Republicans’ shameless cynicism was perfectly captured by Vice President Dick Cheney, who in 2002 proclaimed, “Reagan proved deficits don’t matter.” PERRspectives: Born Again Deficit Virgins  

When [John McCain] took “no responsibility for any of this” — when he was “asked by Katie Couric last week about our failures in Afghanistan” and then “spoke as if he were an innocent bystander”– why didn’t Ms. Couric rip his heart out of this chest? d r i f t g l a s s: Sunday Morning Came and Went  

November 18th, 2009

Dear Ambassador, we are concerned that you are perhaps over-focused on human rights to the detriment of commercial interests. Consortiumnews.com: How a Torture Protest Killed a Career  

November 17th, 2009

And Andrew Sullivan, Matt Drudge, and apparently half the Republican leadership are gay. They’re just gay in a different way. The Sideshow October 2009 Archive  

November 16th, 2009

The Soviets had the exact same problem with Afghan government legitimacy that the US is having now. They had the same problem with the Pakistan-Afghan border land that we have now. They had a better Afghan Army to work with and still had the problems we’re having. History may not repeat itself, but it rhymes and in this case we’re merely looking at history translated from Russian to English. Scholars and Rogues » Walking like a pretzel  

Everybody else has to stay in Special Torture Jail forever on accounta they have all come down with Schrodinger’s Guilt. If they stay in the box they might be guilty, but if we open the box they might not be. Fafblog! the whole world’s only source for Fafblog.  

There is an unfortunate tendency to confuse delivering a bunch of ‘chicken parts’ with producing an actual living, breathing chicken. iPhone Killers, Blackberries and Chicken Parts - O’Reilly Radar  

November 15th, 2009

I saw this and my first thought was, “Carrie Prejean made a sex tape with Sean Hannity?” And then I threw up a little in my mouth. Scariest. Headline. Ever. : Dispatches from the Culture Wars  

WHY AREN’T LEVITT AND DUBNER JOINTLY FELLATING YOU RIGHT NOW: A FREAKONOMIC ANALYSIS Tiger Beatdown › Sexist Beatdown: Superfreak Edition  

November 14th, 2009

If you want a boner, pay for it yourself. Hullabaloo  

I have come to the conclusion that there is a direct correlation between a man’s ability to say that icky word, vagina, and how he treats and sees women. If he can’t say the word, he’s probably a dick. Vagina | The Agonist  

When the year started, ‘teabagging’ was a phrase that referred to dangling one’s testicles in someone else’s face. And they managed to turn it into something gross and ridiculous. Badass Quote of the Day : Dispatches from the Culture Wars  

November 13th, 2009

Because nothing says freedom like forcing a woman with a dead fetus to get a sepsis infection. The Biological Ignorance of Stupak-Mills : Mike the Mad Biologist  

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