Another example of why we must never be without Jon Stewart: The Daily Show – Toemageddon 2011 – This Little Piggy Went to HellTags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook Sigh. I would just leave it there, but there are a few elements to […]
Read MoreGlenn Beck vs. lady parts
When a man and a woman love each other very much, her happy pink ghost has grapes. Pretty sure this is how many right-wingers understand reproduction By the way…I’m a hooker who is planning on having 400 abortions. There, I’ve outed myself. Whew! It feels good to get that off my […]
Read MoreCan I choose d) Jainism? How about e) pantheism?
Are you by chance a directionless hipster? Someone who is into the body mods, but doesn’t much care what he/she gets or what ideology lies behind it? Then this might just be the product for you: a random religion-choosing tattoo machine. The strongest indication of a person’s religion is geography. You are […]
Read MorePerspectives on the Huffington Post suit
A group of volunteer bloggers who have written for the Huffington Post have come together in a class-action lawsuit against the newly AOL-owned site to the tune of $105 million, headed by a journalist called Jon Tasini. Their argument is that HuffPo has taken advantage of them and owes them […]
Read MoreIt’s as if they’re trying to give Colbert material…
Colbert has been tweeting all sorts of non-factual statements about Kyl today. A sampling: Jon Kyl calls the underside of his Senate seat: “The Booger Graveyard.” #NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement Jon Kyl sponsored S.410, which would ban happiness.#NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement Jon Kyl has the world’s most extensive catalogue of snuff films.#NotIntendedToBeAFactualStatement Jon Kyl once ate a […]
Read MoreOn being “gender atypical”
I’ve written before about how LGBT issues are ultimately about gender role conformity in general, and Dan Savage posted on that topic today in relation to the It Gets Better Project: Got this question last night at Cornell University… Cornell professor Ritch Savin-Williams said in the New York Times that […]
Read More“I have a suicide”
In Colorado Springs yesterday, an elderly man called police to report his own suicide: At about 8:15 a.m. the 74-year-old man called 911 to report “he had a suicide,” according to the police report. When a dispatcher asked for more information, he replied, “Hold your ears,” then the dispatcher heard a […]
Read MoreHistorical tweets
Scott Johnson at Extralife imagines what might have happened if Twitter had always been around: I love this idea. I also love the fact that they’re all “tweeting” on whatever communication device might have been available at the time. It made me immediately start to imagine tweets that could have […]
Read MoreGetting fixed
Essure is a form of female sterilization or “permanent birth control” that a lot of women are choosing these days over tubal ligation. It’s a simpler procedure that isn’t as invasive and doesn’t require as much recovery time. I think that’s great, and will probably be getting it myself within […]
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