Andymatic

Month: September 2009

  • Domino's Tracker

    Had to see how this works – Domino's has a pizza tracker that shows where my pizza is in the pipeline. I know all my foodie friends in SF are completely appalled I'm ordering Domino's. Domino's Tracker

  • Markets Does Not Solve Everything

    The first lesson we learned from the current economic collapse is: The market does not solve everything. Despite what the neo-cons like Ronald Reagan and George Dubbya told us, turning all state responsibility over to the market means that the entire country is motivated by profit and therefore operates under a value system of greed. […]

  • Invisible Working Woman

    Aymar on the death of the working woman on the nation’s magazine covers: Now, every time I go to CVS or a bookstore and look at the magazines, I wonder what makes the cover girls so special…. My beef: these women don’t work! … Instead, they are reality stars leading dull lives and somehow getting […]

  • Vatican Continues to Scapegoat Homosexuals

    The Vatican has lashed out at criticism over its handling of its paedophilia crisis by saying the Catholic church was “busy cleaning its own house” and that the problems with clerical sex abuse in other churches were as big, if not bigger. In a defiant and provocative statement, issued following a meeting of the UN […]

  • Montana's "American Police Force"

    A group spokesperson who called himself “Captain Michael” told local news channel KULR 8 that they’re more interested in setting up a $17 million training camp than in operating the prison. This man would not specify how they plan to use the camp. Gawker

  • UK Border Agency Uses DNA Testing to Determine 'True Country of Origin'

    I can’t believe we didn’t do this first in the US: Scientists are greeting with surprise and dismay a project to use DNA and isotope analysis of tissue from asylum seekers to evaluate their nationality and help decide who can enter the United Kingdom… Science has obtained Border Agency documents showing that isotope analyses of […]

  • Prude To Nude: Learning To Love My Womanly Parts

    One of my high school best buddies wrote this fantastic essay on the strange craze for labiaplasty. "The only reason I'm not more embarrassed about being so vagina-shy- is because I have plenty of female friends who are the same way. And these aren't creationist child brides with 12-inch braids swinging down their backs. These […]

  • Kelo Development Is Weeds and Feral Cats

    On June 23, 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court rewrote the Fifth Amendment to allow cities to declare eminent domain, swipe land from one set of taxpayers and give it to another set of taxpayers in the name of economic development. The majority upheld that the city of New London, Conn., could declare as urban blight […]

  • Son Feeds Abusive, Incestuous Father to Coyotes

    Jeremiah Berry shot his father in the head, and then dismembered his corpse to feed parts of it to coyotes, according to court documents. Authorities said they also found some of Jack Berry’s body parts encased in a bucket with concrete. Jeremiah Berry told police he killed his father after his father raped him. He […]

  • Notes from the Homosexual Extremist Movement

    From the Phyllis Schafly’s Take Back America Conference for a session called How to Counter the Homosexual Extremist Movement: (emphasis mine) [F]ervent and relentless homosexual propaganda goose-steps along, trampling upon those who observe traditional notions of sexual morality. … Thus we find ourselves — back against the ropes — in a fight we did not […]