A fundraiser for a woman running for Congress was busted up by the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department using eight patrol cars and a helicopter. But the overkill didn’t end there. Forcing the dispersal of a peaceful gathering is bad enough, but cops these days seem to be incapable of dealing with any situation without [...]
Archive for November, 2011
Source: Jackson’s Family Angry and Upset, Contemplating Funeral Arrangements From Fox News. And I had always assumed they were Vulcans.
I’m definitely a fan of Flight of the Conchords, which is why I’m so sad that I missed the episode where they played this–possibly the funniest song they’ve ever done. A remix of the Slap Chop commercial. A site completely dedicated to funny pictures of kids taken with laser backgrounds. Of course, no one around [...]
I’m kind of in shock that Michael Jackson is dead. He was one of the greatest musical geniuses to ever live, and I grew up in his heyday. Unfortunately, his bizarre and possibly (probably?) criminal personal life will overshadow his incredible legacy somewhat, but I defy you to listen to “Don’t Stop Til Ya Get [...]
Chances are you’ve seen the Young Con Anthem rap that’s been making the rounds the last week or so, but if not you can find it here. (I tried embedding it, but it didn’t work. Sorry.) I think this neatly encapsulates the main incoherencies of contemporary conservatism (and, by extension, liberalism, but that’s not imporant [...]
Juan Cole makes a point about the protests in Iran that I feel ashamed to have missed: the protests happening in Iran would never be tolerated in the U.S. Moreover, very unfortunately, US politicians are no longer in a position to lecture other countries about their human rights. The kind of unlicensed, city-wide demonstrations being [...]
Like most Americans, conservatives have expressed outrage over the murder of Iranian protester Neda Agha-Soltan (here is one example among many). But how seriously can we take this outrage when many of them have advocated policies, up to and including American invasion of Iran, that would kill tens if not hundreds of thousands of innocent [...]
My friend and American Conservative editor Dan McCarthy kindly invited me to contribute to that publication’s new blog Post Right, which is at loosely dedicated to questioning the traditional left-right spectrum. My first post is a short political autobiography that explains how I went from a Dittohead at eleven to the radical libertarian you know [...]
As if we needed another reason, but here one is. The NSA’s wiretapping program was apparently used for purposes entirely different than catching terrorists. Raw Story reports: James Risen and Eric Lichtblau revealed the NSA’s over-collection of data in an article for the New York Times on Tuesday, noting that one NSA analyst was even [...]
Emo Bun. On a related but far more disturbing note, this woman needs psychological help. I mean, I think rabbits are awesome, but fuck! Wheel of Fortune should just have this guy on every show. It’d be super awkward for Pat and Vanna, but the comedic value would be through the roof. A list of [...]
