Obama’s acceptance speech last night has already been eclipsed by McCain’s surprising VP selection, but while I was watching it, I was struck by two primary thoughts: 1) What a fucking liar! He’s promised that the government will do everything but make us piss gold and fart rainbows. If I wasn’t so convinced that John [...]
Archive for November, 2011
I’m a couple days late on Biden’s selection as Obama’s running mate, but I thought I’d still throw in my two cents. As you might be able to tell, I’m not a fan of the choice, but even more than that I think it’s incredibly stupid for a couple reasons. First, the Republicans have been [...]
I was looking at CNN’s homepage a few minutes ago and found a story about how one of Michael Phelps’ female teammates thinks he’s ugly and this wonderful video about a potato that looks like Mickey Mouse. Just the sort of important, hard hitting journalism we’ve come to expect from the most trusted name in [...]
This seems like a positive development: College presidents from about 100 of the nation’s best-known universities, including Duke, Dartmouth and Ohio State, are calling on lawmakers to consider lowering the drinking age from 21 to 18, saying current laws actually encourage dangerous binge drinking on campus…. The statement the presidents have signed avoids calling explicitly [...]
So first Bernie Mac dies, then Issac Hayes. Neither one had been in terrible health and were relatively young to die. Now the saxophonist from the Dave Matthews Band has died unexpectedly at 47. (And let’s not forget Morgan Freeman’s car wreck a little while back.) Clearly some Scooby-Doo-esque villain is killing off black celebrities. [...]
In what I assume was meant to be taken as a limited defense of Barack Obama against the John McCain ad painting him negatively as a celebrity, Tyler Cowen quotes from his own 2000 book What Price Fame? and I figured if he can quote himself and can ripoff one of his blogging gimmicks. So [...]
A new Australian study of what musical genres correlate with certain personality traits in teenagers had some amazingly non-shocking results, for example, these findings: She said an Australian study of year 10 students had shown significant associations between heavy metal music and suicidal tendencies, depression, delinquency and drug-taking. An American study had also shown that [...]
Thanks in no small measure to the heroic journalism of Reason’s Radley Balko, Steven Hayne will no longer be performing autopsies for the state of Mississippi. If you want to know why this is a good thing, you really should read at least some of Balko’s reporting on the matter here. If you just don’t [...]
So the unthinkable for many Red Sox fans has finally happened: Manny Ramirez has been traded and will even play under the hated Joe Torre. I’m of the belief that this was a foolish move and will cost the Red Sox a playoff berth, but some Red Sox fans are inflating Manny’s prowess as a [...]
