Andymatic

Month: May 2008

  • 2 1/2 Years Later: Some Katrina Survivors Still Living Off Government

    I can understand the government providing assistance for maybe six months. I don’t understand waiting around for a miracle. Yes, Katrina was awful. The government response before, during and after was a fucking nightmare. You have no right to live where you used to live. I know that sounds heartless but it is true. Displacement […]

  • Michelle Malkin Bullies Dunkin' Donuts Over Rachel Ray Scarf

    Michelle Malkin is really crazy. Like really crazy. From Epicurious: Right-wing nutcase Michelle Malkin has won a victory over baby-talking Food Network personality Rachael Ray, who was hawking obesity-causing products for fast-food company Dunkin’ Donuts while wearing what appeared to be a kaffiyeh, the cotton scarf that most Americans associate with Palestinian nationalists, especially the […]

  • Topless Tapas

    I got to bed super early last night and so I’m now awake at 3:33 in the morning. Half of the support team is onsite this week so we all went out to dinner last night to a tapas bar. RON (in Orange County): What did you have for dinner tonight? ANDY: I went out […]

  • Malls Track Shoppers by Cellphone Signal

    Slouching towards that mall in Minority Report: Customers in shopping centres are having their every move tracked by a new type of surveillance that listens in on the whisperings of their mobile phones. The technology can tell when people enter a shopping centre, what stores they visit, how long they remain there, and what route […]

  • Madonna's Racist Adoptions

    Analysis on the Vanity Fair article about Madonna from Spiked editor Brendon O’Neill: Madonna is gushing about her adopted son and everything that he ‘represents”. And what is that, exactly? Cohen explains: baby David is a ‘living totem of life as it was lived before machines”. In other words, he’s a simple, wide–eyed, primitive being […]

  • Bush Family's Nazi Past

    The best part about Bush making remarks about appeasement is the context of his grandfather Prescott: His business dealings, which continued until his company’s assets were seized in 1942 under the Trading with the Enemy Act, has led more than 60 years later to a civil action for damages being brought in Germany against the […]

  • Facetiousist

    Last night before slumber I made some sarcastic remark and Ron came up with a new malaprop: Are you being physicist? Our current favorite is from reality show skank talking about how alcohol helps her lower her prohibitions.

  • Nowhere

    Last night Ron and I kinda admitted to eachother how isolated we feel. I think it is our lack of neighborhood. No, this is not a surprise at all. We live south of the financial district with no color and no culture – just tall concrete buildings. Maybe we can find some place close to […]

  • Chris Matthews Nails Kevin James to the Wall

    Sometime Tweety gets it right. This is a perfect example of a media-whore parking on a buzzword and parroting it with no context. Matthews pressed James at least 19 times over five minutes to simply explain what Chamberlain had done in 1938 and 1939 to make him an “appeaser.” James could only shout his talking […]

  • CA Supreme Court Overturns Same-Sex Marriage Ban

    "The California Supreme Court has overturned a gay marriage ban in a ruling that would make the nation’s largest state the second one to allow gay and lesbian weddings. The justices’ 4-3 decision Thursday says domestic partnerships are not a good enough substitute for marriage. Chief Justice Ron George wrote the opinion." (PDF of the […]