June 30th, 2009

Dear Adobe, If you could make your updaters suck balls literally and not just metaphorically, I could at least not dread the process. Twitter / David McCreath  

June 29th, 2009

He was your Elvis, and when your Elvis dies, so does the private lie that someday you will be young once again, and feel at capricious intervals the weightlessness of a joy that is unchecked by the injuries of experience and failure. The Moonwalk Has Come to a Full and Complete Stop.  

You’re embarrassing yourselves. You’re embarrassing your parents. And you’re making the baby Jesus cry. Conservatives: Please Stop Rapping : Dispatches from the Culture Wars  

June 28th, 2009

In Jim Crow 2.0, oppressed white men are the newest victims of racism, discrimination and inequality. We are respectable negroes: Now Introducing Jim Crow 2.0–Those Poor, Oppressed, Conservative White Men Certainly do Need to be “Liberated” or Where is Limbaugh’s MLK?  

June 26th, 2009

Die young, leave a strange corpse. Michael Jackson dead : Pharyngula  

But whatever else it is, it isn’t listening, and in that just-in-time, bullet-point, “gimme the elevator version”-saturated world, the first casualty of narrative is context. d r i f t g l a s s: The Fall of The House of Hearst  

June 25th, 2009

Give me a topic I know fairly intimately, and I can often make a convincing case for absolute horseshit. Climate Change and Argumentative Fallacies  

So unless you’re into brief but outrageous Twitter news from Mashable that you heard about from Robert Scoble — and it is incredible the number of people who are — these services just aren’t that useful. Twitter litter  

So heres the deal: birds have lopsided gonads. WTF. Have you ever wondered why your chickens gonads are lopsided? : erv  

June 24th, 2009

No amount of clear disclosure requirements or increased regulation will keep greed from prevailing. PunditMom: Greed Trumps Regulation Every Time  

June 23rd, 2009

“Well, The Palmetto Scoop have discovered the answer to all the secrecy: the governor may have gone for a naked hike,” Fogle writes. “No, really.” The Raw Story » AP takes governor’s spokesman’s hiking claim at his word  

“Bear in mind that batshit crazy gives me a boner.” Bachmann Refuses to Fill Out Census : Dispatches from the Culture Wars  

June 20th, 2009

It’s unnerving the emphasis on the need for law and order. Informed Comment: Live Blogging Khamenei’s Friday Sermon  

June 19th, 2009

But the world already has Nickelback and Ugg boots; must we let the masses decide on Twitter trends, as well? Twitter Censoring Trending Topics? Isn’t It About Time?  

This is in stark contrast to George W. Bush, who had his enormous balls gold-plated shortly after agreeing to the outing of a CIA operative as revenge for a newspaper article that made him grumpy. Lee Camp: President Obama Puts His Balls Into Storage For Time Being