June 2008
59 posts
Note to the religious right: auto-replace is not... →
Steve Benen points to this huge nugget of funny from the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow website. They post articles from AP’s feed, but replace instances of certain words with others. In particular, they replace “gay” with “homosexual” for reasons that pass understanding. Hillarity ensued:
Tyson Homosexual easily won his semifinal for the 100 meters...
“I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a...”
– Wesley Clark
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-29) →
Medeski, Martin and Wood
Weezer
Aretha Franklin
Adrian Legg
The Dirtbombs
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
“Manzella, 30, enlisted in the U.S. Army in 2002 and was twice deployed to the...”
– SLDN via Oliver Willis
Manzella is gay, so the Army booted him out.
As you may have guessed from my previous post, my iPod displayed the sad iPod icon, which is indicative of hardware failure. I did “a google” (h/t McCain) and came across an article suggesting a fix: banging the iPod against a hard surface. The idea is the harddrive cable can work loose and a sudden burst of kinetic energy can reseat it. My iPod is pretty old, so figured it was...
“The Republican Party is a dead rotting carcass with a few decrepit old leaders...”
– Larry Hunter - A conservative supporting Obama
“The pretended meaning is, The US increased troop strength in Iraq for a period...”
– Jim Henley on The SurgeTM (via Balloon Juice)
“An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than...”
– Aldous Huxley (via theministryoftruth)
He was doing it wrong.
“God damn I wish I could get a do over on my 2000 and 2004 votes, and all you...”
– John Cole (Ex-Republican)
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-22) →
The Dirtbombs
Rush
Adrian Legg
Weezer
The Presidents of the United States of America
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
“There is no longer any doubt that the current administration committed war...”
– Major General Antonio Taguba (Ret.)
“Imagine if, like Cindy McCain, Michelle Obama had started dating her husband...”
– Betty Cracker
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-15) →
Bob Dylan
Wilco
Rush
Peter Lang
The Mountain Goats
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
WatchBaby bounces gleefully to mom’s banjo playing - Boing Boing
We have habeas corpus! →
(via squashed)
I like publius’ headline: Court Reaffirms Existence of Constitution
“I’m am continually surprised by my ability to be surprised by just how...”
– Josh Marshall on Fox News calling Michelle Obama “O’bama’s baby mama”.
“I will veto every single beer…”
– John McCain, having a senior moment. (via squashed)
McCain’s campaign is becoming a comedy of errors. We’ve got this, the Cottage Cheese in a Lime Jello Salad speech, and McCain saying Putin is president of Germany. They’re doing it wrong.
June 4 →
Today is the 34th anniversary of one of the most staggering promotional failures in American sports history. On 4 June 1974, fans who showed up to watch the Cleveland Indians host the Texas Rangers were treated to a remarkably ill-conceived event known as “Ten Cent Beer Night.” Throughout the game, vendors dispensed tens of thousands of cups of Stroh’s beer to the 25,000 irascible fans who filled...
Antarctica base gets 16,500 condoms before... →
Next shipment to include Barry White CDs.
New iPhone 3G!
marco:
3G networking
GPS
Thinner at the edges
Flush headphone jack
“Dramatically improved audio”
Feels even better in your hand
Metal buttons, black back
Same camera
Better battery life
Test of loading a complex website: 21 seconds on 3G, 59 seconds on EDGE.
$199 8GB, $299 16GB!
Available on July 11. (Damn, I really wanted to go out and buy this today.)
It’s great except for...
“In reality there is only one candidate. Barack Obama. In November he will win or...”
– GOP Strategist Bay Buchanan (via election08)
This is what you call lowering expectations. If McCain gives a speech where he doesn’t sound like Grandpa Simpson it will be a huge win and all the bobbleheads on TV will talk about how it wasn’t as bad as expected. They did this with Bush...
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-6-8) →
Rush
Green Day
Ali Farka Touré
Johnny Cash
Iron & Wine
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr
“I have said publicly, and I will again, that unless he proves me wrong, he is a...”
– Tom Delay, Former House Rep. Leader, on Barack Obama.
(Thanks, election08, johnbrissenden)
You would think that a guy facing criminal money laundering charges would be a little less cavalier on where he’s putting his burden of proof.
(via squashed)
I would like to say publicly that unless he...
Confederate group plans giant flag in Hillsborough... →
Another group that lost and can’t get over it.
Hilary Rosen: I Am Not a Bargaining Chip, I Am a... →
Senator Clinton’s speech last night was a justifiably proud recitation of her accomplishments over the course of this campaign, but it did not end right. She didn’t do what she should have done. As hard and as painful as it might have been, she should have conceded, congratulated, endorsed and committed to Barack Obama. Therefore the next 48 hours are now as important to the future...
“At the risk of bolstering the reporters-mooning-at-Obama stereotype, if this...”
– No alarms and no surprises please | Democracy in America