February 2012
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DAMMIT EMILY
Rick-rolled. That is just so many kinds of wrong.
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Rick Santorum owes Newt Gingrich a blow job.
Rick Santorum didn’t actually win those primary votes Tuesday night - it’s just that the Newt/Mitt slugfest has gotten so brutally ugly that voters were turned-off. They didn’t have anywhere else to turn but Santorum. He got the most votes, but he didn’t really earn them.
Gingrich has gone scorched-earth. He’s in the race not to win, but rather to make sure that...
Baseless Opinion Wednesday
aimee-b-loved:
Kanye West seems like the kind of guy who locks himself in his bedroom whenever someone makes an interrupting cow joke. It’s gotten to the point where he avoids knock-knock jokes all together.
Aimee has been on fire today.
One caveat, though...
I think they might have a valid argument when you speak of actual church employees - the rabbis, priests, deacons, secretaries, cleaning staff, etc. who work inside of the church itself. Those individuals have made a choice to work for a religious organization, and may well be expected to adhere to church dogma.
As I understand it, most major religions stress the idea that believers should be IN...
kalamazu: I find myself wondering →
mrsbadcrumble:
mrsbadcrumble:
how many people would be vigorously nodding their heads in agreement if the government declared that all Jewish institutions/schools had to serve pork and would say it’s not a big deal because “a lot of them eat pork anyway.”
We need to disentangle insurance from employment….
1. No one is forced to work for or attend a religious school or organization.
2....
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Tuesday Bullets
Somebody mentioned something the other day about how all of us - from the tiniest tree frog to the bluest Blue Whale - will all experience roughly the same number of heartbeats over the course of our lifetime. We’ve all been gifted with a finite stack of muscular contractions to get us through to our last day, and though some us use ‘em faster than others, we are all forced to live...
News Just In: IPhone obsessives react poorly to...
fuiru:
Everyone within earshot goes ‘uh huh’, laughs into their sleeve
It took exactly three seconds for a “Nobody would line up for Samsung stuff, anyway” tweet to hit my timeline last night.
papina dochka
impressionsofanexpat:
http://impressionsofanexpat.blogspot.com/2012/02/papinei-doch.html
A fat little lady breathes very loud. Her nose a long hook, her sweater ill-fit she stares at our documents, flipping the edges of pages with a yellow fingernail. There are ones in English, photocopied and notarized translations, a forest of papers spread across her little desk. E is squeezed next to me. N...
Scene
ME: Um, excuse me, but I think you left your headlights on...
AHN: What? What do you mean?
ME: On your truck? Your headlights? They've been on for like 45 minutes. I was afraid your battery might die.
AHN: Oh. Oh yeah. Thanks. But I didn't really forget. I'm going back out in a few minutes. Superbowl party.
ME: Ahh, I see.
AHN: Yeah, I did that on purpose.
ME: Alrighty then. See ya around, I guess.
AHN: *DOORSLAM*
What is the consensus for telling an asshole neighbor they left their headlights on? Yay or nay?
JC Penney stands by Ellen DeGeneres as spokeswoman →
rosieloveswords:
Penney’s decision to hire DeGeneres spurred conservative group One Million Moms, a division of the American Family Association, to slam the company for not being “neutral in the culture war.”
I am so sick of people wrapping hate in some sense of religious righteousness.
Judge not lest ye be judged. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Love thy neighbor as...
The more Al Sharpton talks, the more he sounds...
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Holy crap.
With my work being slow, and really looking like it was going to continue to be slow for the next few months, I volunteered yesterday to sit on the committee that organizes our local Dogwood festival, just to fill up my time.
Now I have an entire magazine to edit, lay out, and have in print in just three months. I also have approximately 4,000,000 pages of ads to sell.
Anybody want to come help?
It never fails...
… that very time one of the big media players covers “THE 50 MOST IMPORTANT AND INTERESTING PEOPLE ON TUMBLR YOU MUST FOLLOW” or somesuch, I’ll wind up choosing three or four of the most interesting and adding them to my stream.
Without fail, within a week I’ve dumped every single “must follow” I picked up.
I’m sorry, big media, but your content...
Yep. I knew it.
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If Luckyshirt posts a picture of Bill Murray's...
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January 2012
Tuesday Bullets
Sometimes, on certain Sunday mornings when the weather is just right, I’ll hear a plane fly overhead. A plane headed south, on a flight that will end just a few miles from where you are. I always look up and wonder what if.
I always feel stressed when the weather doesn’t suit the calendar. We are having full-on May weather in January, and I can’t relax. It can’t possibly...
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Gone Gone Gone - Part II
I’m not sure exactly when it happened. I mean, it wasn’t like I just woke up one morning and discovered it was gone. It just more sort of drifted away while I wasn’t looking.
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So, it’s July 4th 2011, and my media server has apparently eaten my music collection. But, as I noted earlier, everything was backed up to a remote location. And I still had my old iPod,...
Someone needs to take Alain de Botton and Malcolm...
That way, whenever we needed a smugly incorrect opinion or a thousand page book full of wrong ideas we’d all know where to go find one.
Heading out in search of tacos.
Sadly, not a euphemism.
Nadal, though? He plays like he’s fighting giants. It’s not just the sneer, or the muscles, or the hair, or that forehand — you know, the one where he swoops the racket all the way around his head like he’s whipping the team pulling his chariot. It’s also that frantic tenacity that used to drive me so nuts. Federer seems devastated when he loses but he also seems to sense...