Christine Haughney at the New York Times reports: National Public Radio will continue for now to refer to Private Manning as “he,” according to a spokeswoman, Anna Bross. “Until Bradley Manning’s desire to have his gender changed actually physically happens, we will be using male-related pronouns to identify him,” she said. What the fuck, NPR? […]
Paul Constant
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You Should Go See The World’s End
Erik Henriksen’s review of The World’s End in this week’s paper is exactly right. It’s a very funny, surprisingly moving movie that uses Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to great effect. I don’t know if it’s the best movie in Edgar Wright’s Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy—it’s been too long since I’ve seen Shaun of the […]
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Who’s the Bigger Asshole: The Movie Pirate or the Loud Moviegoer?
BadAss Digest found video of an alleged movie pirate shushing loud moviegoers because “I’m trying to record” Kick-Ass 2. It’s so unbelievable, it could practically be a viral marketing campaign for Kick-Ass 2. Here’s the video:
Posted inPolitics
The Internet Is Not Confidential
Ken White at Popehat writes: For ten years Pamela Jones has run Groklaw, a site collecting, discussing, and explaining legal developments of interest to the open-source software community. Her efforts have, justifiably, won many awards. She’s done now…Pamela Jones is ending Groklaw because she can’t trust her government. She’s ending it because, in the post-9/11 […]
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Song of the Day
This is good advice for Christians, atheists, and basically everyone in the whole damn world: I hope the choir in this video records and releases this song to iTunes. They could raise a whole lot of money for their church. (Via Gawker.)
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Voter Fraud Basically Doesn’t Exist
Everybody’s talking about voter fraud these days. Republicans are using it as a smokescreen to make it harder (or impossible) for minorities and poor people to vote. (Rand Paul says it’s no big deal, but Rand Paul is a racist piece of shit, so you should always do the opposite of everything Rand Paul says.) […]
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Ill Communication
Ashton Kutcher Can’t Quite Pull Off Jobs
Jobs is like if The Social Network somehow received a traumatic head injury.
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President Obama Offers Some Half-Hearted NSA Reforms, Says Edward Snowden Isn’t a Patriot
President Obama held a pre-vacation press conference this afternoon to discuss Edward Snowden and the NSA. If you’d like to read his ideas for reforms, you should visit The Daily Dot, which lays them out pretty clearly. None of them are particularly compelling. Obama also said “I don’t think Mr. Snowden was a patriot” by […]
Posted inReligion
Why Do Christians Spew Nonsense All Over Talk Shows Like Uncorked Animals?
Hayes Brown at ThinkProgress reports on something that Mike Huckabee just said: “I know we’re not supposed to say anything unkind about Islam,” the former Arkansas governor said. “I mean, it’s politically incorrect. I get that. But can someone explain to me why it is that we tiptoe around a religion that promotes the most […]
Posted inSex
Or*l H*rpes Would Have Been Fine
Sometimes, the best part of my morning inbox is an outraged e-mail from evangelical Christian fucknuts One Million Moms. I like those e-mails because they promote useless boycotts against TV shows and they frequently include lists like this one about a recent episode of NBC’s Camp: Unacceptable content in the program included:“This is a p*rn […]
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Mitt Romney Urges Republicans Not to Shut the Government Down
I’m going to type something, now, and I’m going to try not to choke on my bile as I do it. Are you ready? Here goes: Mitt Romney is telling the truth. Romney addressed more than 200 donors on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee at a fundraiser for the New Hampshire Republican Party… “I badly […]
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George Takei: “It’s Time to Move the Olympics”
This blog post from George Takei will probably start a whole new round of conversation: It’s been bubbling for some time, but the controversy over Russia’s draconian “gay propaganda” law has now boiled over.Last week, Russia’s Sports Minister confirmed that the country intends to enforce its laws against visiting LGBT athletes, trainers and fans, meaning […]