Month: March 2010

  • Approved

    Approved [Barack Obama's signature on his long-gestating health care reform bill- which he signed today. Image via The White House's Flickr]

  • American Theatre Wing – Downstage Center

    Theatre nerds: you will listen to all of these you know you will. American Theatre Wing – Downstage Center Go in-depth with the leading artists and professionals working on stage today when you go Downstage Center. Downstage Center is the American Theatre Wing's acclaimed weekly theatrical interview program …

  • Google Analytics Cheatsheet

    Google Analytics Cheatsheet Getting started with Google Analytics can be overwhelming because there's so many things to track. Here's a cheatsheet mindmap to show you where everything 'sits' in the Google Analytics interface.

  • SEC Workers Surfed Porn While Economy Melted Down

    You couldn’t have ONE TAB for porn and the other one for the Dow? In the case of the regional supervisor, the inspector general found that during a 17-day period, he received about 1,880 “access denials,” wherein the computer system blocked his attempts to view Web sites that were deemed pornographic. The supervisor later told an […]

  • Mississippi Parents Take Over Where School Board Left Off

    Can you guys look a little more pre-historic? A lesbian student whose prom was cancelled after she asked to arrive with her girlfriend has been barred from attending a private event by her classmates. Constance McMillen has not been invited to a private event organised by parents and other students at Itawamba Agricultural High School in […]

  • Bill Clinton on Job Creation

    He fired off some jokes at a DC dinner: On his economic record: “My only regret in creating 23 million new jobs is that 2 million of those jobs were for right-wing pundits.” via Bill Clinton: Funniest president ever?

  • Sarah Palin to Host Nature Series

    What a crock of shit: Sarah Palin is reportedly close to a deal for her travel reality show, Sarah Palin’s Alaska! Discovery Communications will apparently be helming the project after outbidding A&E Networks, according to THR. Discovery encompasses channels from Animal Planet and Planet Green to TLC and the Oprah network. The program, to be shot in […]

  • How To Say It?

    Woo-woo debunker and octogenarian James Randi comes out and proud. 😀 How To Say It? James Randi Educational Foundation

  • Tea Party Protests Devolve Into Hate-Mongering

    From Metafilter: “No government handouts!”, “kill the bill!”, “impeach Obama!”, “n*gger!” and “faggot!” all mean the same thing: “Our group is big, our group is strong, our group is dominant, your group must submit.” That is the only real content of what they're saying, which is why they’re pretty much unfazed by finding out that […]

  • Ellen Gives Constant McMillen a $30k Scholarship

    It gets better: Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres called Fulton, Miss., teen Constance McMillen part of a new generation of leaders for her stand for gay rights and presented her with a $30,000 college scholarship check. “I admire you so much,” she told the 18-year-old senior from Itawamba Agricultural High School. “When I was your age […]