Greedy retailers are ruining Thanksgiving for low-wage employees by forcing them to work on the one goddamned American holiday that isn’t about the buying and selling of plastic bullshit shipped in from China. ThinkProgress has smartly decided to call this phenomenon The War on Thanksgiving. I wholeheartedly approve of this move. They’ve compiled a list […]
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Posted inGun Club
George Zimmerman Was Carrying an Arsenal When He Was Arrested
I’m sure this is exactly what the Founding Fathers intended when they wrote the Constitution: George Zimmerman had five guns and more than 100 rounds of ammunition with him when deputies arrested him earlier this month on domestic violence charges, according to court documents released Tuesday. A search warrant made public by the Seminole County […]
Posted inLGBTQIA+
Oregon Family Council Compares Gay Marriage to Neo-Nazis
Oregon Jewish leaders are hopping mad over a statement by an anti-gay-marriage spokesperson who compared loving gay couples to neo-Nazis, according to the Oregonian‘s Jeff Mapes: Teresa Harke, a spokeswoman for the [Oregon Family Council] made the remarks while explaining the rationale for a proposed ballot measure from the group that would allow businesses to […]
Posted inMovies & TV
A Meeting of the Minds
Statham and Franco Light Up a Quasi-Parodic Action Flick
Homefront: Jason Statham and James Franco light up a quasi-parodic action flick.
Posted inTV
Alec Baldwin’s Show Has Been Canceled
Ravi Somaiya at the New York Times says: The actor Alec Baldwin’s short-lived show on MSNBC has been terminated, less than two weeks after he was suspended for making a gay slur in a confrontation with a photographer seeking to get pictures of him with his wife and baby.…“This is a mutual parting and we […]
Posted inTech
It’s Been a Bad Year for Television
Business Insider‘s Jim Edwards says that television is having a bad time of it: Audience ratings have collapsed: Aside from a brief respite during the Olympics, there has been only negative ratings growth on broadcast and cable TV since September 2011, according to Citi Research. Media stock analysts Craig Moffett and Michael Nathanson recently noted, […]
Posted inHealth
One Truth and a Lie About Obamacare
Truth: In Kentucky, where Obamacare is up and running, people are very pleased. They’re pleased enough that some of them are rethinking the whole Republican idea that any government is bad government, according to the Washington Post‘s Stephanie McCrummen: He’d never had insurance before and said his hospital bills were up to $23,000 at this […]
Posted inHistory
Apparently, It’s Time for Everyone to Argue Over Whether JFK Was a Republican or a Democrat
So Republicans are taking the 50th opportunity of JFK’s assassination to claim JFK as their own. Grover Norquist even praised JFK for being a member of the NRA: In addition to his across the board tax rate cuts JFK was also a life member of the National Rifle Association. He is missed.— Grover Norquist (@GroverNorquist) […]
Posted in$$$
McDonald’s Urges Employees to Sell Their Possessions to Get Out of Holiday Debt
Adam Peck at ThinkProgress says: McDonald’s McResource Line, a dedicated website run by the world’s largest fast-food chain to provide its 1.8 million employees with financial and health-related tips, offers a full page of advice for “Digging Out From Holiday Debt.” Among their helpful holiday tips: “Selling some of your unwanted possessions on eBay or […]
Posted inPolitics
It’s Not Racism If You’re Willing to Pull Your Gun on White Women, Too
George Zimmerman is out on bond, though he does have to wear a GPS ankle bracelet. In other Zimmerman news, Breitbart editor-in-chief Ben Shaprio dropped some Twitter-knowledge on us all: BTW, leftists, if Zimmerman pulled a gun on his gf (for which he should go to jail), that hurts your argument that Trayvon was race-based.— […]
Posted inHomeless
Politician Decides to Solve the Homeless Problem By Smashing Shopping Carts with a Sledgehammer
Scott Keyes at ThinkProgress says: Noting that he’s “disgusted” with homeless people, [Hawaii state Representative Tom] Brower told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser about his own personal brand of “justice”: “If I see shopping carts that I can’t identify, I will destroy them so they can’t be pushed on the streets.” Brower has waged this campaign for […]
Posted inBooks
Like It Or Not, the Internet Is Changing Our Language
1. “Selfie” is the word of the year, according to the Oxford English Dictionary. The OED‘s earliest documented selfie was mentioned in an online forum in 2002. 2002 ABC Online (forum posting) 13 Sept.“Um, drunk at a mates 21st, I tripped ofer [sic] and landed lip first (with front teeth coming a very close second) […]