Month: January 2004

  • Georgia Decides to Bring Back ‘Old Backwards' South

    David Galbraith on one of the stupider happenings in public education in America. In 1848, in Georgia, it was illegal to teach a black person to read. Two years ago it was illegal to teach women in Afghanistan. Today Georgia is considering banning the word evolution from its school text books, making it illegal to […]

  • Ikeaphobia

    I must hear some version of this spiel once a month, generally from some self-consciously leftie male between the ages of sixteen and twenty-two desperate to prove his authenticity, present his down-with-the-people, fuck-the-Man bona fides. This despite the fact that Ikea was explicitly founded on the premise of providing well-designed furniture to the masses at […]

  • Slouching Towards A-List Bloggerdom

    Survey inspired by Sam (he got it from Terrance who got it from Bejata): 1. Do you expect to receive a Valentine?s Day wish from someone special this year? Not especially. I see V-day as just one more fabricated celebration to sell slave-made chocolate and overprice cardboard. Though I’m sure Ron and I will go […]

  • Michael Savage is a Big Dickhead

    Does anybody else find this schlep irritating to the extreme (and yet I cannot look away!)? He’s got a new book out where he gets is pantalones in a bunch about the Ten Commandments being removed from state and federal buildings. Before you know it, you will not be free to express your religious beliefs […]

  • Spellbound

    I know I’ll sound like a big sap – but there are a few movies I consider to be ‘truly American’. Not in that they are patriotic – but that they illustrate deeply fundamental values on what it means to live in this country. The myths and ideals of education and mobility and second chances […]

  • Atom2RSS v0.1

    I started wondering if there was some way to convert an Atom newsfeed into RSS on the fly. I really like my FeedReader aggregator and Newsmonster seems to always reboot my machine (actually it’s probably the Java). So between calls today I hacked together atom2rss.php. atom2rss.zip v0.1 super-alpha! It’s GPL, baby!

  • How to Be a Webcam Whore in 5 Easy Steps

    Ever wanted to become a trashy internet cam whore, but you just don’t know how? Tired of earning money for things the honest way? If you’re shameless and conceited enough, then the exciting world of online prostitution may be for you. It’s hard at first, but don’t get discouraged. Being a cranky bitch and undressing […]

  • The Betrayal of Mary Cheney

    New York Press columnist, Michael Signorile warns Dick Cheney’s lesbian daughter that she’s pissing away an opportunity to bring same-sex marriage to the forefront and show her dad for the hypocrite he is: Are you just another spoiled rich brat – the lesbian Paris Hilton – worried about getting a chunk of those 30 million […]

  • No Child Left Unfried

    The United States is the only country in the world where the execution of those under 18 is officially sanctioned. We are the only country not to have signed the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (which prohibits the practice). The last five executions of juvenile offenders in the world have all […]

  • Lost in Translation

    Just heard where this got a slew of Oscar nominations. I thought it was an alright film but nowhere near as stunning as others have thought. I think it was in Vanity Fair where a writer contended that the film was obviously a rich girl film made by a rich girl (Sofia Coppolla) where life […]