BlogBites

October 31st, 2009

At what point, exactly, do these witches “pray over” candy? At the factory? In the wholesale warehouses? At the store level? Halloween is Eeeeevil : Dispatches from the Culture Wars  

I’m sure a zombie Birch Bayh would have to be an improvement on the corporate zombie Evan. The Sideshow October 2009 Archive  

The realization startles him and he rushes to the bathroom where he vomits what look like rose petals. Then it gets weird. The Daily Swarm - Kanye West, Spike Jonze debut bizarre short “Nightmares” film at LAFF  

There are malevolent and contrary forces in the universe, and it sucks when it’s your turn to entertain them. Scholars and Rogues » Goddamned Denver Marathon organizers design the greatest mousetrap in goddamned traffic history  

October 30th, 2009

Here’s the thing: you bomb the fuck out of people who are used to having the fuck bombed out of them then your fucking bombs aren’t really going to do much of anything. The Rude Pundit  

I think we get the artists we deserve, which is why our money-grabbing, commercialised, shallow, turn of the millennia, Western society has produced Damien Hirst. Damien Hirst is a cock | Vagina Dentata  

October 29th, 2009

I must be the last person in the country to touch this story, but I thought it was beautiful, the photo fitting every metaphor (getting carried away; full of hot air; the latest bright shiny object) indicative of our “distraction media” and an enormous audience averse to substance. BAGnewsNotes: Carry Me Away (at 5 and 11, and 24/7)  

But, at this point in the degraded American health care system, we could very well have had a bill that said the insurance companies couldn’t walk into hospital rooms, shoot patients in the head, and fuck the bullet hole in front of their families. The Rude Pundit  

If beating terrorists involves giving away all the privacy, confidentiality, liberty and respect for the individual that we are supposedly fighting so hard for, then we’re not really beating the terrorists. Scholars and Rogues » We’re all porn stars now, thanks to airport security  

October 28th, 2009

All it proves is that being an ally of the United States is at least as dangerous as being its enemy. Scholars and Rogues » Dopeman  

Because it’s the closest he can get, in this day and age, to actually being able to buy, sell and trade Negros. Scholars and Rogues » Why Rush wants to own an NFL team  

October 27th, 2009

And so we ended up with Freakonomics, the disciplinary equivalent of the battery chicken. D-squared Digest — FOR bigger pies and shorter hours and AGAINST more or less everything else  

October 26th, 2009

But here’s the funny thing about not only youth violence but crime on the whole: It’s inextricably linked with poverty. The Beachwood Reporter  

October 25th, 2009

After church, we would suck on the eucharist until it turned into Jesus. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal  

October 24th, 2009

Man, you’ve have got to be utterly nuts to make Bill Frist look good. Maher really is a moron on medicine : Pharyngula