Want a laugh?
Read the comments here on Romney and the hair-cutting furor. I don’t know if it was just the mood I was in last night, but I laughed out loud many, many times.
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Facebook loneliness
Is Facebook making us more lonely? Well, it’s not making me more lonely, because I’m not on it—although I suppose if I thought about it, the fact that I’m not on Facebook could make me feel more lonely. But I … Continue reading →
The WaPo goes macaca over Romney the homophobic bully
The WaPo has trouble getting its Romney-the-wicked-and-abusive-gay-bashing-haircutter story straight. A source it quoted in the WaPo story as having “long been bothered by the…incident” said in an ABC interview the next day that he was not present when it happened … Continue reading →
If you want to become very, very depressed…
…read this article, and then start reading the comments section.
Continue reading →Dr. Doolittle would approve…
…of iPads for apes.
Continue reading →Obama, Romney, the gay electorate, and the press
Obama’s declaration about gay marriage is getting an unbelievable amount of press. It’s as though it actually means something, other than that for some reason Obama has decided to abandon his pretense of being against gay marriage. It’s being framed … Continue reading →
President Obama…
…does the expected flip-flop on gay marriage.
Continue reading →Hillary Clinton says she no longer cares about hair and makeup…
…while looking nicely coiffed and wearing tasteful makeup. And yet I’m not going to hit her for hypocrisy. Hillary Clinton is now sixty-four years old, and although she’s no glamour puss, she looks perfectly fine for her age. Every now … Continue reading →
New Russian jet missing over Indonesia
This is absolutely terrible on both the human and the economic level, and for the Russian aviation industry specifically: …[A] a Sukhoi SuperJet-100, the first completely new post-Soviet jetliner, went missing during a promotional tour in Indonesia. The plane is … Continue reading →
Lugar and the press
Richard Mourdock primaried and yesterday ousted six-term Republican senator Dick Lugar in Indiana, and the MSM is very upset. As Michael Brendan Dougherty of Business Insider succinctly points out: The only time the press weeps at the loss of a … Continue reading →
This woman…
…is a plus-sized model. Go figure.
Continue reading →Richard Cohen tells Obama to be like LBJ
Richard Cohen advises Obama to read Robert Caro’s latest biography of LBJ and learn how to make friends and influence people like Johnson did. Dream on. In an alternate universe, maybe. In this one, a person can learn a few … Continue reading →