Please don't watch this.
I told you not to watch it.
Will Doctor Odyssey Sink or Swim?
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Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Monday, December 15, 2008
the untold pigeon battles of world war II...
...are finally revealed in this fascinating obituary of a US Army Pigeon trainer.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
kick 'em while he's down
Here's a bunch of ridiculous Bush stuff:
Enjoying a kitten snack.
Kissing the babies.
Ducking a shoe from an enthusiastic Iraqi journalist.
Best of highlights:
And instead of having to laugh and cry at this:
Enjoying a kitten snack.
Kissing the babies.
Ducking a shoe from an enthusiastic Iraqi journalist.
Best of highlights:
And instead of having to laugh and cry at this:
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Thursday, December 11, 2008
that's no moon!
In a surprise move, it looks like Darth Vader has switched paths, going into real estate after making a fortune in the movies.
Read all about it here.
Read all about it here.
Tuesday, December 9, 2008
on the right of the op-ed page...
As long as David Brooks stays away from popular culture his column is always worth a quick look.
There was the time last November when Brooks wrote a whole column about how indie rock is destroying America, based not on his own observations, but basically from an article in the New Yorker (!) by their in-house pompous pop music dork Sasha Frere-Jones. (Who exhausts his intellectual talents on such weighty subjects as calling Stephen Merrit of the Magnetic Fields a racist because he doesn't list music by black artists among his favorites.)
In anycase, Brooks has a great column today about the scope of the infrastructure package and the need for new thinking on the whole project. This is the kind of practical, macro thinking that lends credence to Obama's whole centrist "just do what works" philosophy.
Meanwhile Bill Kristol is setting new standards of intellectual laziness and smarmy triangulation by writing a whole column about how, gee, government isn't all bad. You conservatives who just harp on government all the time are such sticks-in-the-mud! Actually, I'm sorry I put that link there. This guy doesn't need any more attention.
There was the time last November when Brooks wrote a whole column about how indie rock is destroying America, based not on his own observations, but basically from an article in the New Yorker (!) by their in-house pompous pop music dork Sasha Frere-Jones. (Who exhausts his intellectual talents on such weighty subjects as calling Stephen Merrit of the Magnetic Fields a racist because he doesn't list music by black artists among his favorites.)
In anycase, Brooks has a great column today about the scope of the infrastructure package and the need for new thinking on the whole project. This is the kind of practical, macro thinking that lends credence to Obama's whole centrist "just do what works" philosophy.
Meanwhile Bill Kristol is setting new standards of intellectual laziness and smarmy triangulation by writing a whole column about how, gee, government isn't all bad. You conservatives who just harp on government all the time are such sticks-in-the-mud! Actually, I'm sorry I put that link there. This guy doesn't need any more attention.
Sunday, December 7, 2008
Friday, December 5, 2008
the coolest job listing ever
According to their website, the Boredoms are hiring a new drummer!
Requirements include living in the Kansai area of Japan, ability to rehearse in Osaka, and, presumably, drumming skills. None of which fits my current profile.
You can see the original posting here. (Scroll down until you see the English.)
Requirements include living in the Kansai area of Japan, ability to rehearse in Osaka, and, presumably, drumming skills. None of which fits my current profile.
You can see the original posting here. (Scroll down until you see the English.)
hold the jokes
An Op-Ed piece in today's Times calls pirates "enemies of the human race." Several interesting points made about international law and the history of piracy and nation states. But "enemies of the human race"? Just because they had the bad manners to do the stealing and killing outside of convenient legal boundaries?
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
130,000 boobs lost at sea
I will not even attempt to explain this but will simply refer you to the source, here.
the real left
In addition to an actually funny cover this week the New Yorker has an excellent profile of journalist and New Left icon Naomi Klein. The same way that it's great to see the Daily Show going after liberal orthodoxy on MSNBC, it is great to see a major figure that clearly articulates the value of and need for the radical left.
Also, the article does a great job of pointing out some of Klein's rhetorical problems (i.e. the way she tends to come up with an original explanation for a certain phenomenon, then almost kills it from overuse and application to cases that don't really apply) without throwing out the value of Klein's message. Highly recommended reading if you have a few minutes.
Also, the article does a great job of pointing out some of Klein's rhetorical problems (i.e. the way she tends to come up with an original explanation for a certain phenomenon, then almost kills it from overuse and application to cases that don't really apply) without throwing out the value of Klein's message. Highly recommended reading if you have a few minutes.
the new fox news
It was funny seeing different publications opine after the election that Obama's win would doom "The Daily Show" to irrelevancy, but some of the Daily Show's best bits were actually about making the left look silly.
So it is exciting to see Jon Stewart going straight after the self righteous ideologues at MSNBC:
So it is exciting to see Jon Stewart going straight after the self righteous ideologues at MSNBC:
Monday, December 1, 2008
the first orange president
In lieu of anything truly substantial or interesting today I'll just post the Times' photo of Obama announcing his national security team and make fun of the photographer and editor who, apparently in an attempt to get nice rich blues out of the backing curtains, turned Obama a cheese-puff orange.
Jim Wilson/New York Times
Jim Wilson/New York Times
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