Never heard of this whiskey before today, and given the ad that surfaced at Retro Press I think I can see why. Follow along with me as I reveal the nightmare to you, but only in pieces at a time, lest your mind be overwhelmed by too much ghastliness at once and you be driven into the netherest regions […]
Archive for January, 2009
Let’s at least wait for the first 100 days to end…
Image by Patrick Chappatte at Daryl Cagle’s pad. Over the last eight years I’ve been increasingly annoyed by the way Ronald Reagan has been lionized. Airports, aircraft carriers, schools named after the man, and he wasn’t a particularly good or adequate president. Listen. The man ignored AIDS. He had an arms-for-hostages deal going with Iran. (Yes, […]
God and U.S. Airways flight 1549
From CNN: The pilot aboard U.S. Airways Flight 1549 came over the speaker system and told passengers “brace for impact.” One passenger turned on his cell phone so his body could be found with its GPS tracking. Others reflected on their lives. Everyone survived. Said passenger Andrew Jamison, “God was certainly looking out for all of us.”
Sexting = child porn?
Setting aside concerns such as, what if it was your daughter that did this, on the face of it the actions taken against six Pennsylvania teenagers are just plain damn stupid. [S]ix Pennsylvania high school students are facing child pornography charges after three teenage girls allegedly took nude or semi-nude phởtos of themselves and shared […]
RIP, Number Six
Patrick McGoohan has died. The goods: The show:
Do not read while eating
It’ll put you right off your feed. “The most urgent threat [Obama] will have to deal with, and other presidents after him have got to deal with, is an attack on our homeland,” Mr Bush said. Gee, if only Bush had received the same kind of warning when he took over in 2001. Oh. Wait.
iTunes pricing: not the news
While the new three-level pricing on iTunes is marginally interesting, of much greater importance is that iTunes is terminating DRM. You can upgrade all the songs in your library purchased from them to DRM-free versions à la iTunes Plus.1 About time, too. DRM is for teh shiteheads. ==== 1. At 94 items to upgrade (singles […]
We’re not in a recession.
This is a full-on depression, folks, and it’s only just begun. MSNBC et. al. are still in total denial, using words like recession while documenting the implosion of brands such as Mervyn’s (clothes), Best Buy, Starbucks and so on — but the reality is that this is not a recession any more than the October 1929 crash […]
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