Good morning, everybody. Katy Perry apparently doesn’t care much for Lady Gaga’s new video. Now, your morning constitutional: Women swept all the high-profile primaries yesterday, with Blanche Lincoln winning in Arkansas, Meg Whitman and Carly Fiona winning in California, Sharron Angle winning in Nevada, and Nikki Haley heading to a run-off in South Carolina. An actual shocker in results yesterday, however: The Democratic nominee for Senate from South Carolina will be unemployed military veteran Alvin Greene, who beat the presumed winner despite spending nothing on his campaign except for the filing fee and doesn’t even have a...
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New York Times Columnist Line of the Day
If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy. Today’s is from David “Yawny-Pants” Brooks, who in his column “History...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Tuesday, 8 June 2010
Good morning, folks. First ThunderCats, now Voltron’s coming back. Now, your morning constitutional: A headline I, for one, never thought possible: Obama looking for ‘whose ass to kick.’ Although, the AP’s is pretty great as well: Obama talks tough on spill; keisters in peril. Iran is defiant in the face of potential sanctions as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad warns that Iran will not agree to talks on its nuclear program if the UN passes sanctions this week. “Fuck my victims. I carried them for twenty years, and now I’m doing 150 years.” Bernie Madoff: class act. A 25-year-old...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day
If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy. Today’s is from Ross “Do That Thing” Douthat, who in his...
Continue reading...Was President Obama in the "Whoomp (There It Is)" video?
Via Gawker: Finally, a Barack Obama conspiracy theory for the rest of us! Everyone from Tea Partiers to hip hop message boardsthinks Obama was an extra in the music video for Tag Team’s single “Whoomp (There It Is)”. Before you do anything else, check out 1:01 of the music video for Tag Team’s 1993 smash hit “Whoomp (There It Is)”. A tipster sent in the video along with a note: Barack [is] in the Tag Team “Whoomp there it is” video. Don’t believe me? Judge for yourself. We were highly skeptical, since “Judge for yourself” sounds like something from a multi-colored...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Monday, 7 June 2010
Good morning, everybody. Elton John sang at Rush Limbaugh’s fourth wedding. Now, your morning constitutional: BP announced Monday that its response to the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has cost $1.25B so far. Seven killed over the weekend in Ohio as severe storms and tornadoes swept the Midwest. Slovenians voted to support a new border treaty with Croatia, a step towards resolving a decades-long dispute that will make it easier for the Balkan states to enter the European Union. The cost of doing business in China is going up and will likely lead to higher...
Continue reading...This is what happens when you teach kids that condoms don't work
AP (emphasis mine): About 17 percent of sexually experienced teen girls say they had used the rhythm method –timing their sex to avoid fertile days to prevent getting pregnant. That’s up from 11 percent in 2002. They may have been using another form of birth control at the same time. But the increase is considered worrisome because the rhythm method doesn’t work about 25 percent of the time, said Joyce Abma, the report’s lead author. She’s a social scientist at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics. … The increase in the rhythm method may be part...
Continue reading...Lesson: Racial slurs are totally fine, so long as they're in a joke
Noted this morning in the Morning Constitutional: “We already got one raghead in the White House, we don’t need a raghead in the governor’s mansion,” said State Sen. Jake Knotts, of South Carolina gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley. Knotts backs Lt. Gov. Andre Bauer in a four-way Republican primary race. Today, Knotts “apologized.” By “apologized,” of course, I mean, he’s sorry nobody got the joke: Unfortunately, the show was not recorded as was intended. If it had been recorded, the public would be able to hear firsthand that my “raghead” comments about Obama and Haley were intended in...
Continue reading...New York Times Columnist Line of the Day
If you’re one of the four-or-so frequent readers of this here blog, chances are you also occasionally check out the New York Times op-ed page. You may even know the names: Thomas “Friedman’s Just Another Word For Nothing Left to Lose” Friedman, Gail “The Colander” Collins, Nicholas “The Dark Crystal” Kristof, &c. Well, I’ve decided to devote a daily feature to these folks, by daily pointing out one line that is either awesome, funny, insightful, intelligent, ridiculous, or utterly divorced from reality. I hope you enjoy. Today’s is from David “Yawny-Pants” Brooks, but only because everybody else...
Continue reading...Morning Constitutional – Friday, 4 June 2010
Good morning, folks. Hold on to your childhood, because Warner Brothers is making an anime restyling of Thundercats. Now, your morning constitutional: “I simply misremembered it wrong,” explained Rep. Mark Kirk, who is running for the Illinois Senate seat once held by President Obama, of how an award for the unit he headed became an award just for him. The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday issued a new restrictions on sulfur dioxide emissions, the first such revision of sulfur dioxide rules in 40 years. Sulfur dioxide is a major component of the exhaust from coal-burning power plants,...
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