There are about 350,000,000 people in the US, including children. $700,000,000,000, divided evenly among them, would amount to approximately $2000 per person. I don’t personally want to pony up two large to provide an ass-catcher for some corporate cocksucker who’s found his balls in the wringer. Here’s my corporate bailout plan: Let the overextended banks tank. […]
Archive for September, 2008
I like this one.
It really says it all. Demonstrators protest the proposed 700 billion USD Wall Street bail-out in front of the New York Stock Exchange in the Financial District in New York on September 25, 2008. In response to the global financial crisis, protesters, from a variety of activist groups, denounced the capitalist system, Wall Street and the administration […]
Should have asked earlier
This ad for Sensoa (apparently a Belgian group dedicated to sexual health) is clever on more than one level. The big payoff is at the very end. I put the ad below the fold because it’s a Flash video that begins playing immediately, and who needs that?
More later.
Ever redesign a logo for a $150 mln institution on your own? Well, I did. More, as I said, later.
Again with the saber rattling?
It’s fascinating to me to hear McCain and Obama expound on policy, as though they were already elected and dictating to congress. One of them surely will be, but the hubris required to behave as though you’ve already won is genuinely — well, entertaining. McCain is now saying that he would “pre-emptively” strike (that is, […]
Healthcare according to ‘conscience’ = Dark Ages horseshit
Those of you unfamiliar with Pharyngula might have missed a link from PZ. We have a new euphemism and a potential new regulation from the Bush administration: “provider conscience rights”. What this is about is providing religious doctors with loopholes so that they can avoid responsibility for treating patients with the best possible care — so they can use […]
Okay, so maybe I was wrong.
A while back I said this was probably the best photo I’d ever taken. I didn’t count on this. Or this. Sisters, brother. Beautiful kids, beautiful day. Oh my God, what a beautiful day.
They’re not even wrong.
CNN’s story led with a provocative and possibly-alarming header: “Cell phones can affect sperm quality, researcher says”. That’s distressing by virtually any rational standard, no? Cellular phones have a long history of being feared and mistrusted. There is an abundance of people who believe they cause brain cancer, despite lack of anything like hard evidence; a few years ago […]
Blow, Wind Sock, blow.
Here’s the AP on McCain. No shit. John McCain embraces and expels Washington like an accordion player belting out a song. Squeeze in and he touts his vast knowledge of the capital city. Draw out and he casts himself a reformer bent on changing its ways. […] Squeeze in, and he’s the new capital tour guide for his running […]
Get ready for insipid pulpitry.
Ike — aptly named if one knows the history of the Turners — did a hell of a lot of damage. I don’t know how the Jesus crowd feels about what keeps happening to Galveston (it gets hit pretty regularly, and last I heard, it’s not a gay mecca), but I’m sure they’re trying to exonerate their sky daddy by […]
It’s the subtle gradations that really drive you batty.
This is a hell of a fun little test to take. There are 100 hue tiles arranged in 4 rows, and you have to sort them. I only got four wrong, which isn’t particularly shabby. I wonder how they’re filtering for displays, though; I’m using a calibrated CRT. I don’t know how the test would break down on an LCD or plasma […]
Here we are again.
There is absolutely nothing in the vast wasteland of television worth taking in today. We’re due for another day of maudlin, obscenely inane retrospectives. Jesus’ General kindly references Ani DiFranco for us, while Wonkette skewers the trash favored by white trash. I have nothing of importance to add to the discussion.
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