Andymatic

Month: August 2007

  • Lesbian Woman in UK Faces Deportation to Iran – and Possible Stoning

    Pegah Emambakhsh is an Iranian woman who sought asylum in the UK in 2005. Her claim failed. She was arrested in Sheffield and is being held in Yarl’s Wood Immigration Removal Centre pending deportation on Tuesday 28 August 2007 at 21.35 on British Airways flight BA6633 to Iran. If returned to Iran, Pegah faces imprisonment […]

  • Orphaned Hedgehogs Cuddle with Cleaning Brush

    Cutest thing of the day: The smells on the brush, which is used to sweep a yard, remind the hedgehogs of their natural habitat while the texture reminds them of their mother. “They like natural scents and have enjoyed playing with our cleaning brushes, soil, leaves, flower pots and the like. “They particularly seem to […]

  • Idaho Republican Senator Pleads Guilty for Soliciting Undercover Male Cop

    Somebody really needs to instruct all these gay hypocrite Republicans how to hire a goddamn escort in the privacy of a hotel room. After he was arrested, Craig, who is married, was taken to the Airport Police Operations Center to be interviewed about the lewd conduct incident, according to the police report. At one point […]

  • How Fear of Death Turns Us Into Imperialist, Xenophobic Assholes

    From The New Republic: Over the next decade, the three performed similar experiments to illustrate how awareness of death could provoke worldview defense. They showed that what they now called “mortality salience” affected people’s view of other races, religions, and nations. … When they would ask sub- jects to make judgments immediately following the mortality […]

  • Mapping the Path to Ultimate Executive Power

    From Ollie North to the Present Day: “I request that matter not be touched upon today.” A map of bills and Executive Orders that allow the President to suspend the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, seize commercial aircraft, roads, rivers, highways, communication media, petroleum, energy industries, farms… I do wish they’d say who signed […]

  • Back to School Fashion: Tween Whore

    Who knew the Paris Hilton South Park would be so prescient? Lolita’s Closet: Unbearably trampy back-to-school clothes. Don’t these idiot kids realize the most fetishized and sexualized clothing they could ever possibly wear is a Catholic schoolgirl outfit? Have we learned nothing? Did I use the word prescient right?

  • Gonzales Resigns

    Presumably to spend more time with his family.

  • Rick and Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in the World (Episode One)

    “Of course, a gay household. What don’t you guys have on a rheostat?” [youtube]gjsdX2NAjUI[/youtube]

  • Parenting Advice from Craigslist

    From the Best of Craigslist (Detroit): When I see some kid at the restaurant that wont take off his headphones or put away his PSP to eat dinner, I want to slap his parents in the face. … What the fuck ever happened to discipline? I’m sorry, but if you’re 30 and cant control a […]

  • Hilshire Farms Commercial: 'Go Meat!'

    The best part of this ad are ‘Hello?!’ and ‘Whoo!’ [youtube]8wIp36Ky6yk[/youtube]