Hey, remember a couple of weeks ago when that cheerleader, Arianne, killed an alligator and everyone was impressed by her ability to fit into two societal categories at once? Well hold onto your hats, because she’s got competition! Another alligator has been charged with the crimes of being big and existing. It was sentenced to […]
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In-Line Skaters? YOU ARE EXCUSED.
Though this story happened in Connecticut, it pissed me off all the way over here in Portland. From the AP… A Connecticut in-line skater faces assault and other charges after a confrontation over whether a 4-year-old on a tricycle had the right to be on a bike path. Stamford police charged 43-year-old Chris Karamon with […]
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Looking at Naked Ladies Makes You Gay
In case you missed it: “And one of the things that he said to me, that I think is an astonishingly insightful remark. He said, ‘all pornography is homosexual pornography because all pornography turns your sexual drive inwards…. And if you, if you tell an 11-year-old boy about that, do you think he’s going to […]
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Arianne, the Gator Slayer
According to Florida Today, Satellite Beach’s Arianne Prevost killed the shit out of a 450 lb., 11 foot alligator while on a gator hunt. It was a total archery kill,” guide Peter Deeks said, adding Prevost shot the gator several times with a crossbow and finished it with a broadhead. Prevost is having the meat […]
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Neologisms “R” Us
“Leotarded” makes NPR. ULABY: And it’s not just movies rethinking retard as an easy laugh. A few months ago, popular sex advice columnist Dan Savage renounced his use of the word. Mr. DAN SAVAGE (Sex Columnist): You know, I just sat down to write the column, and I’d used the word retard in a column […]
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Strong Enough for a Man, but pH-Balanced to Totally Dissolve Yo Brainz!
Hippie sham? Or ALZHEIMER’S DEATH PASTE!? Okay, so, you know how the whole world won’t shut up about how this stuff that I rub on my armpits every day is a total murderer? And I’m slowly murdering myself to death in the name of vanity, when, instead, I could daintily brush a sprig of lavender […]
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Oh, Obama… How Could You??
You know, I was TOTALLY against all those anti-health reform/”death panel” nuts—that is until I saw this shocking video of President Obama outside a town hall meeting WHIPPING AN OLD PERSON AND A FETUS!! (I mean, can’t we just deny them health care and let them die naturally?)
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Every Movie Theater Should Have to Do This. It Should Be a Goddamn Law.
Photo by Mark G. Power Photo by Mark G. Power It’s been said before, but I’ll say it again: All hail the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema. Via Jim Emerson’s Scanners blog. (Thanks for the heads up, Ted!)
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This Is Why We Shouldn’t Let the Humans and the Sea Mammals Breed
Headline of the year: Manatee man arrested in attempt to punish stepson with cat feces Thanks for everything, Google alert for “feces.”
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Call Any Vegetable: Try Vegan Week Begins Tomorrow
Call any vegetable, pick up your phoneThink of a vegetable, lonely at homeCall any vegetable, and the chances are good,That a vegetable will respond to you. -Frank Zappa, “Call Any Vegetable,” from Kill Ugly Radio During a long interview with the delightful vegan cookbook author Isa Chandra Moskowitz, I remember her characterizing my job as, […]
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Everything Joel Salatin Does is Illegal
Joel Salatin The problems associated with the way we’ve chosen to feed our population include food borne pathogens from robust strains of antibiotic resistant pathogens, diabetes, obesity, water pollution, increased green house gasses, and a general disconnect between ourselves and real food. We wander the grocery store, reaching for whatever processed corn product we feel […]
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Introducing the New NIKE GUN SAFE!
Are you sick of trying to remember complicated lock combinations, or twisting cumbersome handles to get quick access to your loaded revolver? Are you tired of your idiot child NOT knowing where the bathroom is? Then by all means, store your weapons in the new Nike Gun Safe. Now getting your gun out of the […]