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You Might As Well Add a Colon After ‘Services’

NYTimes. Oh, and bonus: stupid headline. Related posts No related posts.

2010 08 01 squidocto oy Comments (0)

Accuse your enemy of what you do

OK, I am slow to keep up with all the political news, but this parody letter by the Tea Party Express chairman is just unbelievable. What the hell? This is absolutely appalling (and not funny to boot). How does he keep his job? That he does must say something about the party he represents, eh? [...]

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2010 07 21 crushinator Comments (2)

“out-of-control platitudes”

Oh, Onion. Massive Flow Of Bullsh*t Continues To Gush From BP Headquarters Congressional hearings aimed at stopping the bullshit have thus far failed to do so, with officials from BP and its contractors Halliburton and Transocean only adding to the powerful torrents of bullshit by blaming one another for the accident. Along with the region’s [...]

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2010 06 08 crushinator nature
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Budget Graph

The New York Times has a good interactive graph showing Obama’s proposed budget. It might take you a bit of time to find NASA… so why are we cutting them? Related posts Roll Over and Play Dead (2) How to Negotiate Like a Democrat (by Lloyd Dangle) (1) Accuse your enemy of what you do [...]

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2010 02 01 squidocto Comments (1)

Roll Over and Play Dead

These detourned jokes are awesome and sad. A Democratic congressman walks into a bar. The bartender says, “Sorry, we don’t serve your kind here.” The Democratic congressman whimpers, “You’re right, I’m sorry, I never should’ve come in here, it’s all my fault, boo-hoo, please, bend me over, I’ll do whatever you want because I’m a [...]

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2010 01 24 crushinator oy Comments (2)

Hodgman Nerd-Roasts Obama

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2009 06 23 squidocto Film & TV Comments (1)

The Moral Case for Tax Havens (and other oxymorons)

Is this real or just really really subtle parody? via Seeing the Forest Related posts No related posts.

2009 04 08 crushinator oy Comments (1)

Abraham Obama garage door

Ron English’s painting, from an entrance to 58 Gallery in Jersey City (I am told that this is in a very odd below-the-viaduct-potentially-creepy section of town). via, again, wfmu’s beware the blog. Related posts No related posts.

2008 11 12 crushinator art Comments (1)

Yes, we could!

Doesn’t this phrase need that comma? I don’t know why they are holding frozen coffees. image via WFMU Related posts No related posts.

2008 11 12 crushinator Comments (1)

Election polling maps

RealPolitics has a sort of interactive map of the US with a conglomeration of polls in various states. This is for the presidential race, btw. If you’ve been paying attention at all. I am going to try to not look at this every couple hours to see if new polls have come it. And how [...]

2008 10 28 crushinator Maps Comments (2)

RNC in St. Paul; Police pre-emptively raid protester organizers and documentarians, arrest Amy Goodman, behave badly

This weekend in St. Paul, as a prelude to the Republican convention, police and FBI raided protest organizers homes, “detained dozens of people and issued a series of search warrants.” More here, and here, and here. The house where i-witness video, the group that documented police misconduct in the 2004 RNC in New York, was [...]

2008 09 01 crushinator History Comments (0)

Yes We Cunt!

Another winner from the folks that brought you (the now out-of-date) john.he.is, Don’t Think of a Black Man, and 3 in the Mourning. via radosh.net Related posts No related posts.

2008 06 19 squidocto Comments (0)

Pagan Law Firm

Wiccans have a tough time sometimes. Take, for example, this 2005 lawsuit in Florida: The lower appellate court opinion reveals the Wiccan group was exempted from paying sales tax on copies of the Bible and Quran, but forced to pay sales tax on the Satanic Bible and the Witches Bible. (They lost, by the way.) [...]

2008 06 09 squidocto Brain Comments (1)

Bringing Him Home

Extraordinary photo by Todd Heisler of 2nd Lt. James Cathey’s body being brought home. From The Rocky Mountain News’ Final Salute. Related posts No related posts.

2008 06 06 squidocto photos Comments (0)

The Indignity of Ice Cream Licking

Leon Kass, head of President’s Council on Bioethics until 2005, feels public ice cream licking is disgusting and undignified. Worst of all from this point of view are those more uncivilized forms of eating, like licking an ice cream cone–a catlike activity that has been made acceptable in informal America but that still offends those [...]

2008 05 29 crushinator Food
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Illicit Liquor (“Moonshine”)

This simple government statistic graph seems strange. Why the remarkable drop in illegal distilling? Well, in a general sense, because it’s become legal, of course. Imagine that, you legalize something pleasant, and the criminal activity drops…. Related posts No related posts.

2008 05 20 squidocto Food Comments (1)

Italian Political Poster

Creepy poster in Venice: Roughly: They haven’t been able to pass immigration laws; time to live on a reservation! Related posts No related posts.

2008 05 06 squidocto travel Comments (0)

Puerto Rico: Wouldn’t That Be Cool?

Democrats: when it comes to the remaining primaries, everyone’s talking about Pennsylvania. But look at Puerto Rico. Mathematically, it is possible that when it comes to their primary, they could choose the candidate. I think, just for mind-fuck-history’s sake, that would be very cool. Related posts No related posts.

2008 03 19 squidocto Comments (1)

Farmer Suicides in India: 150,000 and rising

Despite the fact that 60% of the population of India is involved in agriculture, “disastrous policies, woeful access to affordable credit, greedy and corrupt middlemen, and indifferent administrations” have created (and are maintaining) such an impossible credit and financial system for farmers that they have been committing suicide in astounding numbers. The official statistic: since [...]

2008 03 15 squidocto Comments (0)

Now That He’s Resigned, Do We Have To Give Him His Telescope Back?

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2008 03 11 squidocto oy Comments (0)