Missives From the Reality-Based World
For starters, well, yecch.* That out of the way, let’s talk about this video for a moment. These women are viably conventionally heterosexually attractive. Buxom, one blond and the other brunette. I mention this because it’s clear that the video was intended — scat aside — to appeal to heterosexual men. Apart from the parts that have spawned […]
I have no idea who Randy Bish is other than that he appears to work at the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. And if I were his editor, I’d can him after this little piece of drivel culled from Cagle’s clearinghouse of editorials (4÷15÷09): I mean come on. Chappaquiddick was 40 years ago. Is this honestly the best, the very […]
Oh my. Police say an upstate New York television executive who sought to improve the image of Muslims in the media beheaded his wife after she filed for divorce. Yes. Really. I do not believe this is going to do much to reform the image of Muslims. Who knows, though? Maybe he anesthetized her first or […]
Over at Cagle’s, Gary McCoy unleashed a kiloword worth of duh. Either this cartoon is eight years out of date and has essentially been reissued with a new caption, or McCoy is pathetically, hopelessly out of touch. This level of clearly willful blindness to reality just makes my head hurt.
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 […]
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.
Heavily armed security guards. Banks that are getting taxpayer bailouts awarded their top executives nearly $1.6 billion in salaries, bonuses, and other benefits last year, an Associated Press analysis reveals. Dear bank execs: Watch your backs.
For a nation that claims to follow the Abrahamic god, even though they’re misguided enough to believe the Koran rather than the One True Writ,1 the people of Yemen are no more respectful of the millennia-old sacred tradition of marriage than are a bunch of rainbow-flag-waving fairies out on Castro. What’s got my knickers in a knot? The […]
In case you’re wondering exactly why you should vote, or in case you’re sneaking sips of the heady nepenthe of victory already, I should remind you that inbreds, mouth-breathers and those with a surfeit of chromosomes still shamble among us, as in the case of the Jacksonville (FL) area: After hearing about three hours of public comments, Duval […]
On Friday night, while the entire universe (or at least a good chunk of the US) was out trick-or-treating, a 22-year-old ex con with a history of drug convictions used an AK-47 to shoot and kill a twelve-year-old boy who came knocking with his family. The “rationale” offered by Quentin Patrick was that he’d been robbed before and didn’t […]
This story broke less than an hour ago. Federal agents have broken up a plot to assassinate Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama and shoot or decapitate 102 black people in a Tennessee murder spree, the ATF said Monday. In court records unsealed Monday, federal agents said they disrupted plans to rob a gun store and target a predominantly African-American high […]
When it’s used to justify setting an eleven-year-old girl on fire, it’s probably time for all of us to rethink the “respect” we give to religion, to its practitioners, and particularly to leaders who endorse extremism in its name. Kill ’em all and let their gods sort ’ em out.
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