Month: May 2011

  • House GOP Not Sure About Helping Victims of Horrific Twister in Missouri

    House GOP Not Sure About Helping Victims of Horrific Twister in Missouri

  • David Brooks is an Elitist Asshole

    “Here’s the crux of what makes their system so admirable in [David Brooks’s] eyes: ‘Britain is also blessed with a functioning political culture. It is dominated by people who live in London and who have often known each other since prep school. This makes it gossipy and often incestuous. But the plusses outweigh the minuses.’ […]

  • Whites Believe Anti-Racism Bigger Problem Than Anti-Black Racism

    Because obviously there’s no racism involving asians, latinos or other immigrant groups: “Whites believe that they have replaced blacks as the primary victims of racial discrimination in contemporary America, according to a new study from researchers at Tufts University’s School of Arts and Sciences and Harvard Business School. The findings, say the authors, show that […]

  • Man Arrested For Masturbating on United Flight

    I wonder what Ron Zamora would do if he caught a passenger beating it in the cabin. Honey? Man Arrested For Masturbating on United Flight Last week was a rough one for United Airlines- between its Ground Zero ad controversy and an accidental reinstating of the 9/11 flight numbers. So the last thing it really […]

  • Bradley Manning's Facebook Page – WikiSecrets

    Frontline tonight is about Manning- Assange and Wikileaks. Bradley Manning's Facebook Page – WikiSecrets Inside the mind of the man accused of the largest intelligence leak in U.S. history…

  • Feudal System 2.0

    “America is the one place in the western world where, if you profess to liking leisure time, travelling, working-to-live instead of the other way around, you eventually get branded as a lazy do-nothing and, consequently, rarely build up enough years of service at one place to get more than two weeks per year of paid […]

  • Gallup Poll Charts Marriage Equality Tipping Point

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  • Personal Jesus by Marilyn Manson

    Afternoon chitchat with Scott Hirsch and Colleen McGarry referenced Depeche Mode's Personal Jesus which is a fantastic song (and in high school we even convinced them to let us use it for a communion meditation at one of our high school liturgies). Here's Marilyn Manson's cover (featured in the film Saved). http://www.vevo.com/watch/marilyn-manson/personal-jesus/USIV20400427 Personal Jesus by […]

  • Beyonc̩ Performance @ BBMAs 2011

    At the Billboard Awards- Rihanna had white light exploding out her nethers while Britney stumbling around drugged (with a surprising lack of whips and chains for a song about S&M). Beyonce was the one that turned this mother out with Rule the World (Girls) http://video.billboard.com/services/player/bcpid1126070790?bctid=955158210001 Beyonc̩ Performance @ BBMAs 2011 Beyonc̩ Performance @ BBMAs 2011

  • Justice Scalia and the Little Black Box

    “I’ve always wanted someone to run a black box experiment with all the SCOTUS justices. Here’s how it would work. Take any case, X. Break it down along ideological grounds… an opinion/ruling … favored a corporation over the consumer or the other way around; or expanded/upheld/restricted civil rights; expanded/restricted government power vs citizen rights, labor vs […]