Here’s Republican New York State Senator Roy McDonald: “You get to the point where you evolve in your life where everything isn’t black and white, good and bad, and you try to do the right thing.” “You might not like that. You might be very cynical about that. Well, fuck it, I don’t care what […]
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“Yeah, Green Lantern! Sure, why not?!”
The Onion is at its best when it is endearingly literal, and they nailed the apathy surrounding the Green Lantern franchise: ‘Green Lantern’ To Fulfill America’s Wish To See Lantern-Based Characters On Big Screen Related: I have a friend who once drunkenly told me he’d never trust someone whose favorite superhero is Green Lantern. He […]
Posted inPolitics
Is This the Most Offensive Conservative Commercial Ever?
Slate asks if this is the most offensive political video ever made, this hour. Oliver Willis points to it as proof that conservatives are still racist. I just can’t believe how terrible it all is: The overt racism, the sexism of casting Janice Hahn as a booty-dancer, the creepiness of sticking her face in the […]
Posted inElection 2012
What Do You Think About the Sarah Palin Movie Poster?
Here, via Big Hollywood, is the poster for the Sarah Palin hagiography, Undefeated.
Posted inElection 2012
Mitt Romney’s “…just teasing the girls”
Earlier this morning, Mitt Romney was at a photo op in a New Hampshire diner. He was posing with some waitresses. Then, things got a little weird: Before the picture was snapped, he jumped up, declaring: “Oh, my goodness,” as if a waitress had grabbed his rear. Turns out, none of the waitresses were getting […]
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Mitt Romney Dominated Last Night’s Republican Debate
Holy shit. Mitt Romney looked about as presidential as is humanly possible during last night’s Republican debate. He accomplished this goal by implementing a flawless two-part strategy: First, by speaking in coherent sentences and second, by sharing the stage with six blithering idiots. Nobody else scored any hits at all: Ron Paul sounded as crazy […]
Posted inReligion
Rapture-Predicting Preacher Reportedly Suffers Stroke
MSNBC: Harold Camping, the radio preacher who incorrectly predicted that the Rapture would happen last month, has reportedly been hospitalized after suffering a stroke. According to the Oakland Tribune, a neighbor said the 89-year-old president of the Oakland nonprofit Family Radio network was taken by ambulance from his home on Thursday night.
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Preparing for the Palin E-Mails
A “streamlined” (read: stripped-down) media prepares to read 24,000 of Sarah Palin’s e-mails by, ugh, “crowd-sourcing.” Chris Cillizza and The Fix are asking readers to help analyze, contextualize and research those e-mails alongside Post reporters over the days following the release. The Post is limiting this to 100 spots for people who will work collaboratively […]
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Hillary Clinton Goes Job Hunting
That’s what we like to call job creation: U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has been in discussions with the White House about leaving her job next year to become head of the World Bank, sources familiar with the discussions said on Thursday…”Hillary Clinton wants the job,” said one source who knows the secretary well. […]
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Policing the Internet: Shutting Down Facial Recognition Technology, and Tennessee Bans Any Online Image That Might Cause “Emotional Distress”
Sometimes the internet can be scary: Today, I turned off Facebook’s new facial recognition technology, because I think that’s just fucking creepy. If you’d like to learn how to do that, this blog has a simple four-step explanation of how to turn it off. But that doesn’t mean you can just do things like this: […]
Posted inGossip
Don’t Run, Alec!
Breitbart’s Big Hollywood reports that Alec Baldwin is thinking about running for mayor of New York City: The “30 Rock” star, who has long talked about running for political office, believes Weinergate has shaken up the field of candidates enough that he might have a chance to win, a friend of the actor told The […]
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Margaret Thatcher Refuses to Meet Sarah Palin
Considering that Sarah Palin has cited Margaret Thatcher as a hero, this has to sting: Margaret Thatcher, the former British prime minister, is well respected by Sarah Palin, but it doesn’t appear that the feeling is mutual. Recently the former Alaska governor revealed plans to take her “One Nation” road show across the pond next […]