Category: News
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Artist Javier Lara Asks America About Gun Control and the Virginia Tech Shootings
My buddy and Venezuelan sculptor Javi emails and asks: I am so sick of the poor reporting that the USA news are doing about the incident in Virginia, they are talking about everything , but no one is addressing the real problem GUN CONTROL…..what is it going to take for a 6 year old to […]
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Conservative Pundit: VA Tech's Men Failed
Classy: (via Think Progress) College classrooms have scads of young men who are at their physical peak, and none of them seems to have done anything beyond ducking, running, and holding doors shut. Meanwhile, an old man hurled his body at the shooter to save others. Something is clearly wrong with the men in our […]
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Asian Photographer Arrested in Virginia – Then Released
Nice. The Asian man seen being cuffed in this photo is Shaozhou Cui, a photographer for the VT student newspaper. HE IS NOT “THE SHOOTER!” The only thing Shao can be accused of shooting is photographs. Without having heard from him yet, I assume that maybe he got too close to the action before the […]
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Virginia Tech Shooting: Conservative Pundits Wishing Students Were Armed
Yes. The answer is more guns: In the wake of a deadly shooting rampage that killed over 30 people on the campus of Virginia Tech University, host John Gibson asked on the April 16 edition of Fox News’ The Big Story: “So, theoretically, in this lecture hall where all 31 were killed, there could have […]
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Kurt Vonnegut Dies
RIP
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Serve at My Pleasure
When Bush talks about the attorneys that ‘serve at my pleasure’ do you picture attorneys dancing around like trained monkeys or jesters?
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Pet Food Recall
Has anybody else noticed that they aren’t saying any brand names with the pet food recall? Is it the food companies sponsor the news or because there are too many brands?
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The Grossest Thing I've Seen in Years
DO NOT CLICK ON THIS LINK BEFORE A MEAL. If you are at work DO NOT CLICK ON THIS LINK. I’m serious. I’m not joking. This is one of the nastiest things I’ve seen in a long long time and my scalp was tight for the rest of the day. I have been applying a […]
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Garrisson Keillor Pulls a Coulter, Dan Savage Tells Him to Fuck Off
A little Prairie Home assholery from the usually much more sensible and sensitive Keillor: The country has come to accept stereotypical gay men — sardonic fellows with fussy hair who live in over-decorated apartments with a striped sofa and a small weird dog and who worship campy performers and go in for flamboyance now and […]
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Perinatal Hospice and Unbearable Sadness
In the New York Times via Metafilter: Living With a Dying Baby. “Families can choreograph their child’s very brief life with their family . . . Sometimes they may have a matter of minutes, so they decide beforehand who can hold the baby, who will cut the umbilical cord, who will hold the baby when […]