April 2008
49 posts
Defamer Finds The Words
This isn’t about Miley Cyrus without a shirt on or if she’s been seen somewhere in her lingerie, or if her father dropped the ball.
It’s simpler than any of that; this whole thing comes down to picture of a 15-year-old looking like she just got the shit fucked out of her. And if there’s anything America loves more than a war, it’s teenagers fucking.
—Defamer
Somebody Sign This Kid
Update: My bad. I guess someone already did.
“Don’t you see that your smug “of which” has turned that...”
– Mark Twain to an editor
A Little Bribery Never Hurt Anyone
Bribery of orphanage officials may occur, but serious offenses such as baby-selling or kidnapping are not a problem, said Vu Duc Long, director of the Department of International Adoptions.
—The Associated Press
STFU
If a rooster crowed at dawn outside my window, I would wake the fuck up.
This year, the response has been little more than eye-rolling. “Bloomberg crying about how awful guns are is basically like the rooster crowing at dawn,” a legislative adviser for Gun Owners of America, Michael Hammond, said. “It’s background noise.”
—The Little Paper That Could
“He’s older than Burger King!”
– Darrell, realizing how old John McCain is, after watching this.
“I take a simpler approach: As long as there is no obvious bread or grain in a...”
– Cherney on choosing what is and is not KFP
message force multiplier
Add this to the list of the great Bush-era phrases. An instant classic.
“Let me see if I can send it over a gmail. I think I can find one of those. Site...”
– a source today who was having trouble with his work e-mail server, after I suggested he use gmail or yahoo or some other non-work-related e-mail.
Class Dis-Missed! →
I Have Not Reached You
If I had, I wouldn’t be talking to your freaking voicemail. So stop freaking saying, “You have reached tktk. Please leave a message.”
“I generally try not to know too much about complex financial news, because then...”
– Fox News’ Megyn Kelly in Howard Kurtz
Are People Seriously Still Asking This?
But her experience raises questions about whether the roles, rules and expectations for journalists and bloggers are different. Can a person be both?
From Katharine Q. Seelye’s NYT story.
I Don't Have Time To Read This Right Now →
But it’s about NYU, John Sexton and the future of the universe.
Don't Remember Leaving The Bar
me: last night i fell off a stool
according to claudia
and you caught me
so thank you
Mike: wow really
i have no recolletion of that
me: yeah me neither
Mike: i wonder what else happened
lol
Makes So Much Sense
I love discovering things that make so much sense but that I hadn’t taken the time to ponder. Case:
Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Day
alley-oop
Did you know?
“Alley-oop” was first heard by English ears under the big tops of early 20th-century circuses. When acrobats were about to leap to their trapezes, they would often cry the similarly sounding French word “allez-oop” — an interjection...
I Am Thoroughly Enjoying Marin's Blog →
Kind Of Like Alice In Wonderland In Here
I know my site’s font grows down the page on Internet Explorer. I’ve asked tumblr wtf is going on. No word yet. Just use Firefox.
No Shit
The New York Times and sociology often have something very basic in common: the knack of pointing out the obvious.
But while many people are familiar with Googlegängers, a fundamental question has gone unanswered: Why do so many feel a connection — be it kinship or competition — with utter strangers just because they share a name?
Social science, it turns out, has an answer. It is because human...
“City officials secretly rerouted the planned torch relay, leaving swarms of...”
– The New York Times
Gotta Love Bureaucratspeak →
DOT Acquisition Policy Letter APL-2008-02 - Contract File Checklist and Interagency and Intra-Agency Checklists for Economy and Non-Economic Act Agreement - dated 3/5/08 New
Big Love: The Reality Show →
While searching for the teenaged mother and her infant child, investigators at the YFZ Ranch observed a number of young teenaged girls who appeared to be minors and appeared to be pregnant, as well as several teenaged girls who already had given birth and had their own infants.
…
During the investigation, a number of the children interviewed were unable or unwilling to provide the names of...
Abby's new blog →
Thank God There's No Postage On E-mail
I did a little experiment yesterday. I didn’t empty my trash at all just to find out how much correspondence I get that I don’t really need. Within 24 hours, I deleted 151 e-mails. I only opened 6 of those. This doesn’t include the number of multiple e-mails I got that gmail lumps together in a conversation.
This Is Why God Invented YouTube →
No, seriously. This is why YouTube was born. The democratization of art and funny. Long Live Chrissy Seaver.
It's Friday Morning, Nobody's Watching, So Let's... →
I Nearly Pissed Myself →
Everything Is Memed, Verbed, Co-Opted.
Rachel: i need some juice in my life while doing this wretched colloquium me: hehe
you’re going to do great
just focus Rachel: :-/ me: remember why you’re interested in it to begin with
find the passion
not to get all postcardsfromyomomma on you or anything
Two Suicides, One Heart
I shared the budget line with some of you last week. Here’s the full story from The (Hilton Head) Island Packet, and the lede:
After Terry Cottle killed himself more than 12 years ago, his heart beat on in former Hilton Head Island resident Sonny Graham.
Grateful for the transplant that saved his life, Graham wrote to thank the Cottle family. Through that correspondence, he met Cheryl...
Ouch. →
“Charlton Heston: You can take my guns now”
– The Superficial
On the internet, nobody knows you’re wearing pants.
Until I Learn Divs And Css
or con charm someone who does into helping me…
Here are some links that would be on the right or left side of this blog.
My roommate Cherney
(warning, lots of jokes about defiling various parts of people’s bodies and/or small, defenseless animals)
The most creative father-to-be I know
My favorite photographer, though I refused to get naked for his photo shoot
I wish I Could Arrest People For Violation Of The... →
Political Correctalness
Nexis search results for: theme park and roller coaster and rides and obese and fat 21 Nexis search results for: theme park and roller coaster and rides and obese and not fat 49
Research
The Express; May 30, 2005; THE ROLY-POLY COASTER; FAT PEOPLE GET CHANCE TO GO ON NEW RIDE IN THE ‘BIG BOY’ SEAT; By Geoff Maynard A new £3million roller coaster has been designed to cope with overweight people who need “big boy” seats. Andy Hine, chairman of the Roller Coaster Club of Great Britain, welcomed the move. “I have a lot of club members who are larger...
More Research →
I feel kind of guilty reading this one →
Moms think they're so clever →
Irnic
So the ironic thing about tumblr is that it’s supposed to be uber user friendly, yet there’s no easy way to get comments on there (that I know of) without fiddling with html. Thanks to former boss-lady Doree, I now have comments and all of my 1 readers can now comment. If you, too, want commnts on your tumblr go to disqus.com.
“A recent survey that found some Florida teens believe drinking a cap of bleach...”
– Local 6 in Orlando
“PLANO – Everyone has had a day where 24 hours just doesn’t seem like...”
– Dallas Morning News