The big news from the second Republican presidential debate last night was Rudy Giuliani’s retort to Ron Paul’s argument that our interventionist policies abroad fueled hatred of the United States in the Muslim world, which encourages terrorism, a theory known as blowback. Giuliani interrupted the debate format to indignantly claim that Paul suggested that America [...]
Archive for November, 2011
The teachers at Scales Elementary School in Murfreesbro, Tennessee have lost their minds. How else can you explain why they thought it was a good idea to stage a school shooting on their students? From the AP: The mock attack Thursday night was intended as a learning experience and lasted five minutes during the weeklong [...]
From The Economist: YOU are a fisherman off the coast of northern Kerala, a region in the south of India. Visiting your usual fishing ground, you bring in an unusually good catch of sardines. That means other fishermen in the area will probably have done well too, so there will be plenty of supply at [...]
Spinner Magazine’s list of the 25 Most Exquisitely Sad Songs. My only big objection is to number one (What the fuck is it even doing on the list!?), but I also have cavils too numerous to list. The best part about the list is that you can listen to the songs as you flip through. [...]
Last April, Edward Sanchez, a Dearborn police corporal, used his police power to confiscate a quarter ounce of pot off an unknown individual and then used that weed to make a batch of brownies that he and his wife subsequently ate. An hour and a half later, Sanchez calls 911 thinking that he overdosed on [...]
Since the beginning of the year, President Bush’s approval rating has hovered around the mid to low 30% range, which is pretty awful. But whenever I see those numbers I always think, “Jesus, that means that one of every three people still think this guy’s doing a good job, so what would it take for [...]
This story may be the most depressing thing I’ve read about Iraq so far this year: Criminals in Baghdad are stealing corpses from the scenes of car bombings and killings in order to extract ransoms from grieving relatives. In a macabre offshoot of the capital’s kidnapping epidemic, the gangs pose as medics collecting bodies to [...]
Even if this holiday were the only contribution Mexican immigrants made to American culture, it would still be worth it. Any excuse for drinking on a beautiful spring day should be respected. Oh yeah, fuck Lou Dobbs’ Mexican hating ass because margaritas are good.
Crystal meth: Now in a variety of flavors! Somehow I doubt this guy will win Tokyo’s mayoral election. I mean, he does tell the voters that he “despise[s] each and every one of” them and that Japan “is horrible.” On the other hand, his campaign promises are easy to keep. (From Hit and Run.) I [...]
One more quick thing on tonight’s debate. This AP story says “There was no dissent about the importance of the U.S. military mission in Iraq.” Well, that’s bullshit because Ron Paul objected to the war pretty much every chance he got. I think there are three likely reasons–or some combination thereof–the article doesn’t mention this: [...]
