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Sanitized Zuccotti Park
Compare to my video'ed walk-through three weeks ago: More pictures of Zuccoti Park today.
What Is This Internet Thing?
From January 1994. Watch as Today show hosts Bryant Gumbel and Katie Couric become confused over this new "Internet" thing and the @ symbol. Incredible how quickly something can become widely known, accepted, and even necessary.
Zuccotti Park Vacated; Occupy Wall Street Over (Temporarily)
Here's how it went down in the wee hours this morning in lower Manhattan: When it became clear that the police intended to clear out the park, the protesters got on their phones and called friends. But police had blocked off about 16 sq blocks or so, completely surrounding the park. People responding to the calls were stopped by … Read More
More Painful Than The Perry “Oops”
Herman Cain. What a joke. Last week, questions swirled around sexual harassment allegations. Cain kept on saying it was a conspiracy against him, and he wanted to talk about policy. Cain got lucky. Perry's master boner in the last GOP debate distracted everybody, and when that started to fade, the "sexual harassment" story was soooo last week. And then, Cain … Read More
Don’t Know Much About History
Bill O'Reilly decided to write a history book. Specifically, a book about Lincoln's assassination called “Killing Lincoln,” which O’Reilly co-authored with Martin Dugard. It's #2 on the New York Times non-fiction bestseller list, right behind the monstor biography of Steve Jobs. How bad is this book? Historians are panning it. Why? Because it has the one thing that history books should never have: … Read More
Raw Deal for Paterno
I'm not a Penn State fan; I'm not even a follower of college football. But as I understand it, after 46 seasons, Penn State college football coach legend (he's a "legend" apparently, although I wouldn't know) Joe Paterno has been removed from his position because he supposedly exercised bad judgment back in 2002. What happened was, he was told by … Read More
Rick Perry’s Campaign Crashes Live On National TV
This is what happened: This is how Perry's "stock" was trading on Intrade immediately after Perry's "Bill Buckner" moment: Here's the thing: the real gaffe in my mind wasn't that he couldn't remember that he wanted to totally dismantle the Department of Energy (as well as Commerce and Education); the real gaffe is that he ACTUALLY proposes doing those … Read More
Shorter Aaron Worthing
The depraved idiot tries to make a deep point, but just spittles on his face: The First Amendment doesn't prevent people from making sexual threats in the workplace, and it shouldn't. UPDATE: Worthing responds in the comments. I stand by my "shorter" representation of what he was saying, and of course, I have provided the links so that readers can … Read More
Good Election Results Last Night
The Every Sperm is Sacred Act and the Fuck the Public Unions Act were both rejected at the polls last night in Mississippi and Ohio. Ohio is at 61-39, and even more surprising, Mississippi wasn’t close at all, currently holding at 59-41. The Maine citizen veto of the voter suppression law sailed through as well. Not a conservative nation by any consideration. More details.
Cain: “Sharon WHO?”
MSNBC: Cain, a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, maintained his innocence amid allegations that he had made an inappropriate advance toward [Sharon] Bialek in 1997, when he was head of the National Restaurant Association (NRA) and she had traveled to Washington, D.C. to seek his help in finding a job. "I can categorically say I have never acted … Read More
WTF
Old Chinese people performing "Bad Romance"… apparently on the "Next to Normal" set
That Word Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means
Seems some right-wingers have an axe to grind with Elizabeth Warren, running to unseat Scott Brown as Massachusetts Senator. Their complaint? She's rich. Elizabeth Warren may have embraced the Occupy Wall Street movement and the “99 percent” crowd, but public records reveal the liberal firebrand belongs to the wealthiest 1 percent of Americans. Her financial well-being will likely hand conservatives … Read More
“Doesn’t Exist” Is The Scariest Response
It's a bit disconcerting to see some of the responses from the Cain supporters this morning, following the sexual harrassment/assault allegations of Sharon Bialek directed at Cain. It's one thing to disbelieve Bialek. In a he said/she said situation, people are going to line up that way. But what's happening in some quarters of the right is stomach-turning: some rightwing columnists … Read More