Best-selling author and columnist Molly Ivins, the sharp-witted liberal who skewered the political establishment and referred to President Bush as “Shrub,” died Wednesday after a long battle with breast cancer. She was 62. David Pasztor, managing… (Read more…)
Sad sad sad day.
Sphere: Related ContentAbout 10,000 Juneau residents briefly lost power after a bald eagle lugging a deer head crashed into transmission lines. “You have to live in Alaska to have this kind of outage scenario,” said Gayle Wood, an Alaska Electric Light & Power spokeswoman. “…
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I read this as “… causes outrage” and I immediately got pissed off and thought “oh you damn duck squeezers.” A side effect of teetering between wanting to squeeze a duck myself, and the backlash of wanting to squeeze a duck squeezer’s neck.
Sphere: Related ContentBarbaro, who rocketed to a six-and-a-half-length victory in the Kentucky Derby last May but sustained a catastrophic injury two weeks later in the Preakness Stakes, was euthanized early this morning in Pennsylvania. (Read more…)
There are so many other important things to get upset over, but this is a bummer. It’s always seemed like such a horrible shame to put down a magnificent creature over a broken leg. The nearly year long attempt to rehabilitate Barbaro was a tiny ray of scientific sunshine in our post rational United States.
Sphere: Related ContentSphere: Related ContentIn this country, there are almost twice as many neurosurgeons as there are professional illustrators. There are eleven times as many certified mechanics. There are SEVENTY times as many people in the IT field.
So, given that they are less rare, and therefore less in demand, would it make sense to ask your mechanic to work on your car for free? Would you look him in the eye, with a straight face, and tell him that his compensation would be the ability to have his work shown to others as you drive down the street?
Would you offer a neurosurgeon the “opportunity” to add your name to his resume as payment for removing that pesky tumor? (Maybe you could offer him “a few bucks” for “materials”. What a deal!)
Would you be able to seriously even CONSIDER offering your web hosting service the chance to have people see their work, by viewing your website, as their payment for hosting you?
If you answered “yes” to ANY of the above, you’re obviously insane. If you answered “no”, then kudos to you for living in the real world.
But then tell me… why would you think it is okay to live out the same, delusional, ridiculous fantasy when seeking someone whose abilities are even less in supply than these folks? (Read more…)
Popup windows. Flash splashes. White text on light beige (with random brown smudges behind them, which made me lick my thumb and smear it on my monitor several times.
Fire your agency. Now.
Sphere: Related ContentThe chapel isn’t the only place where silence is expected at one Rhode Island Catholic school. The Saint Rose of Lima School in Warwick has new lunch rules that require students to remain silent during lunch.
The move comes after three recent choking incidents in the school cafeteria.
All three students are fine — but school Principal Jeannine Fuller said in a letter to parents that “the school’s priority is the safety of each child.”
The letter says all students must remain silent during lunch. Students who don’t follow the policy will receive a lunch detention.
Providence Diocese spokesman Michael Guilfoyle says the school is enacting a temporary safety measure. He says the school doesn’t expect complete silence but enough quiet to keep students safe. (Read more…)
Dakota Fanning had smart things to say, and I’ll probably talk about that later. But while clicking around, I found this idiotic crap on CNN:
Seriously. CNN is so f*cking stupid I can’t even stand it. CNN has turned into the national enquirer.
Sphere: Related ContentIsaiah Washington called TR Knight a faggot on the set of Grey’s Anatomy. Oh noes. Then at the Golden Globes, he said “I did NOT call TR Knight a faggot.” Uh huh. Then he released a statement admitting that he did and said “I can no longer deny to myself that there are issues I obviously need to examine within my own soul.” Oh noes.
Lewis Black’s response on last night’s Daily Show: “You see? Isaiah’s good people! But his soul is a huge dick!”
I nearly spat out my breakfast beer.
Sphere: Related ContentUpdate: The video was removed. And this still screams parody to me. The “ministry” has a small and sketchy website, the “band” has a small and sketchy website, and the “singer” (who claims to be a “reformed homosexual, like oscar wilde”) has a small and sketchy website and myspace page. If it’s not a parody, the dude is more than a little shortbus.
No one can figure out if this is satire or not. I can’t either, but I have to laugh at it because the alternative is too awful.
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