Andymatic

Month: April 2011

  • Andrew Sullivan confuses camp and blasphemy.

    Columnist Andrew Sullivan lambasted The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence's Hunky Jesus Contest in San Francisco's Dolores Park with a short post flamingly titled "The Tired- Lame Bigotry Of Some Homosexuals-" the Sisters responded. Sullivan reacted to the responses with an escalation- calling the Sisters "smug liberal bigots." Breaking the cardinal rule: Don't f*ck with drag […]

  • Confession Of A Wall St. Nihilist

    I may have linked this before. “Let’s throw the book at every firm and every executive that our people can make a case against. Because you know, gosh, it’s all about rule of law and blind justice, just like Che says.’ OK, so now this means indicting just about every serious player in finance, so […]

  • Outrage Over TSA Was Right-Wing PR to Prevent Workers from Unionizing

    “Republicans have used this playbook before, of course, it’s just that Wisconsin finally made us all too aware. Perhaps the most obvious example — and the least understood — is from last November, when the same basic strategy was used to wage war against the TSA’s 55,000 employees, who have been locked in a savage […]

  • Wal Mart CEO: 'Shoppers Are Running Out Of Money'

    “Wal-Mart’s core shoppers are running out of money much faster than a year ago due to rising gasoline prices, and the retail giant is worried. We’re seeing core consumers under a lot of pressure. There’s no doubt that rising fuel prices are having an impact. Purchases are really dropping off by the end of the month […]

  • Johnson & Johnson Turns Its Back on AIDS Patients

    Johnson & Johnson Turns Its Back on AIDS Patients Johnson & Johnson- which holds patents on three key new HIV drugs desperately needed throughout the developing world- has so far refused to license these patents to the Medicines Patent Pool.

  • SCOTUS Knifes Class Action Law

    “Honestly, lawyers making millions off class-action lawsuits doesn’t bother me anywhere near as much as the fact that now it’s de facto okay for a corporation to literally defraud millions of people for $20-$50 each on the basis that they could never be sued by those people through a class action. Class action lawyers were […]

  • Faking It

    “When you talk about federal spending, you’re overwhelmingly talking about Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and defense. And the bulk of the insurance — all of Social Security and Medicare, about 2/3 of Medicaid — is for the elderly and disabled. … Whenever someone talks about making government smaller, he should be asked which of these […]

  • Pat Buchanan: Obama's Higher Education Was "Affirmative Action All The Way"

    Pat Buchanan: Obama's Higher Education Was "Affirmative Action All The Way" From the April 26 edition of MSNBC's Hardball…

  • 2 Kinds of Artists

    “I just wonder whether we accept only two kinds of artists: starving and filthy rich. Artists in the middle bring up questions about whether art is bourgeois, whether it has value if it is, and whether artists have to live outside of norms in order to make meaningful art.” Jen Graves via The Stranger

  • Delicious Finds a New Home at AVOS- YouTube Founders' New Company — NewsGrange

    Delicious Finds a New Home at AVOS- YouTube Founders' New Company — NewsGrange Yahoo today announced that it has sold the bookmarking service Delicious to YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steven Chen. According to Yahoo- the plan is to…