Andymatic

Month: August 2009

  • Chris Hedges Goes to a Porn Convention

    The interviewer asks what condition her vagina and anus will be after having sex with that many men. She speaks of her body parts in the third person: “They can take it. They want it. They like it. They go back to size after. Pussy’s tight. She always goes back to size.” The degradation she […]

  • Blackwater Founder Implicated in Murder

    Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince “views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,” and that Prince’s companies “encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi […]

  • Unemployment Has Little to Do With State Policies

    “What you see, if you look at the black states — states with 10+ percent unemployment — are two great belts of suffering. One is California/Oregon/Nevada, which is about the burst bubble. The other stretches down across the middle of the country. Except for Florida, which is presumably more bubble damage, what this looks like […]

  • Kid Throws Bleach in Face of Movie-Shushing Mom

    During a screening of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince she asked a gang of at least five teenagers to stop making a noise.West Yorkshire Police said two of the group followed the family to a nearby restaurant after the screening and threw bleach over the mum’s head and back. via UK News

  • Anecdotes Are Data

    They present themselves as birther agnostics — observers who don’t necessarily believe the charges, and sometimes take pains to distinguish themselves from the birthers, but find in the very existence of the controversy proof Obama has something to hide. via Village Voice article on Birthers

  • Woman-Erasing

    What really got their blood up was those horrible abortions and the poor little babies–they got high off of their self-righteousness, because they were warriors of the Lord, protecting the helpless little babies.. I mean, prevent one abortion, and you’re like a superhero who saved a baby from a speeding train. What can compete with […]

  • Krugman: Rewarding Bad Actors

    [W]e’re looking at huge payouts by firms that were major recipients of federal aid. Citi has received around $45 billion from taxpayers; Goldman has repaid the $10 billion it received in direct aid, but it has benefited enormously both from federal guarantees and from bailouts of other financial institutions. What are taxpayers supposed to think […]

  • Ask a Rape Survivor

    Yes. He actually started to make a move on me, and when I declined I started crying and told him that I had been raped a few months prior. He told me how horrible it was that something like that could happen to a nice girl like me and soothed me until I stopped crying, […]

  • Kansas Attorney Showed Girl's Assault Photos to Parents

    A county attorney in Kansas violated a girl’s privacy by showing around photos of her sexual assault, the teen and her mother claim in Topeka Federal Court. The Anderson County Attorney refused to prosecute the assailant, but showed other parents photos of the sexual assault, and was suspended from practicing law for 6 months for […]

  • Poll: Less Than Half of Republicans Believe Obama is American-Born

    Only 42 percent of Republican respondents in a Research 2000 survey, conducted for the liberal website Daily Kos, said they thought Obama was a natural born citizen; 28 percent said they did not believe Obama was born in the United States; 30 percent said they were not sure. via New Poll: Less Than Half Of […]