Archive for April, 2008
Hulk
Atrios links to trailers for what had better be an awesome movie.
In that spirit, I offer you the comprehensive list of things that make Hulk Smash. I like how so many of them begin with “inexplicably” and “somehow”.
98. Crawling through the sensitive, highly dangerous electrical service tunnel
for no apparent reason, only to accidentally [...]
See? This is What I Mean.
Roll Call: Inouye Headlining Stevens Fundraiser
Putting their friendship above party, Democratic Sen. Daniel Inouye
(Hawaii) will headline a fundraiser today for one of the Democrats’ top
targets this cycle, Republican Sen. Ted Stevens (Alaska)
See, when I talk about my outrage meter being pinned in the re, this is EXACTLY the kind of thing I mean.
Never mind that [...]
Video: Dwarves, with Suicide Girls
The Dwarves: You Gotta Burn
Featuring topless Suicide Girls. Yum.
Stimulus in a Nutshell
Imagine an abusive husband, constantly beating the daylights out of his wife.
Imagine that same husband realizing that one beating has gone a little bit too far, and he has to make it up to his wife.
So he gets a check (from their joint checking account), gives her semi-conscious body a poke with his [...]
A Realization
Yesterday I paid my weekly visit to my shrink, and for the first time ever, she started ranting instead of me. “Have you seen the price of flour?” she began, and then launched into the exact diatribe I’d delivered the week before about oil and food prices.
The conversation drifted to the “stimulus” we’re getting this [...]
Long Emergency
In comments to Ghost Towns, Alex writes:
To most Americans, large cities are for cultural and sporting events.
Some of them may live in one for a few years after graduation, then
they’re planning to spawn in the burbs.
They’ll go bankrupt before they move into the cities.
He’s probably right: the comment reminded of something Kunstler wrote [...]
Again with the Backyard Zen
Increasingly, I find myself not blogging or spending a lot of time online during the weekends. Part of this is accountable to the fact that it’s warm out and there are Things That Need To Be Done, but the other side of that is that after a week of writing at work and subjecting [...]
Read More..>>And Now, The Frogs
I love The Frogs, and so should you.
I’m Hungry
This one’s reprehensible:
Children Run Away (From the Man with the Candy)
Read More..>>Ghost Towns
This piece on the housing crisis, via Daily Kos is really interesting:
Recent studies suggest that buyers underestimated the costs of their long commutes. Those expenses can add up to more than the buyers saved on the home. Developers also miscalculated, lured by cheap land and rising home prices. They overreached, “partly [...]
Joey Vento is an Idiot
Oh Jesus Christ. Joe vento’s making a stink again
On Monday, Barack Obama went across the street to Pat’s for a cheesesteak.
Same day, Hillary Clinton had a chicken cheesesteak with Italian greens in the Philadelphia suburbs.
To Geno’s owner Joey Vento, such decisions showed such a lack of courage that neither Democrat deserves to be president.
“If they [...]
