This one’s pretty fantastic. I usually hate any pot-based humor, but this parody is so perfectly executed it’s hard not to like it.
Blogish
There's a reason 'artistic' sounds so similar to 'autistic'.
Aug 15
Aug 14
My hatred, summed up nicely
From Big Daddy Drew at Deadspin:
Hell, I’m not even sure I hate the Packers as much as I hate Notre Dame. And I have no regional or personal reason to hate Notre Dame. I just hate them. SO VERY MUCH. Oh, what I would give just to watch Touchdown Jesus burn… BURN TO THE FUCKING GROUND, and to have its dying embers be put out by gallons upon gallons of stale horse urine, and to see NBC terminate its contract with the school, and to have the school fall into a terrible downward spiral, even go bankrupt. I hate them randomly and without motive, which is what makes hating them all the more delightful. God, you fucking suck, Notre Dame. You and your big, fat, white, arrogant orca of a coach. Eat shit. Eat shit and die.
Aug 13
Or did I just miss them?
Did no one make the obvious reference to The Bucket List when reporting Morgan Freeman’s recent car accident?
SOMEBODY got disappointed by Google!
» Should police need a warrant to track your car by GPS?
Wasn’t one of the main points behind The Wire the fact that good cops can’t do their jobs right because of the behind-the-scenes bureaucratic mess of poor funding and questions of “legality”? McNulty and Lester would have KILLED to use GPS trackers without any hassle.
My gut reaction was that they absolutely should, but then I considered the folllowing argument:
A police officer could do the same thing with his or her own eyes,” said Arlington Commonwealth’s Attorney Richard E. Trodden. “It helps to cut down on the number of police officers who would have to be out tracking particular cars.”That has some intuitive appeal, I guess. But this is the line that gave me chills:
Barry Steinhardt, director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s technology and liberty program, considers GPS monitoring, along with license plate readers, toll transponders and video cameras with face-recognition technology, part of the same trend toward “an always-on, surveillance society….We have to rethink what is a reasonable expectation of privacy.”
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It’s easy to fixate on the Power Glove, but the real masterstroke here is the controller taped to the end of the hockey stick.
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It’s easy to fixate on the Power Glove, but the real masterstroke here is the controller taped to the end of the hockey stick.
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Observation
The Olympics are really only an excuse to expose mens’ latent pedophilia. Especially during gymnastic events. And when they’re at a bar.
Aug 12
T-shirts featuring headlines from CNN.com? Who the fuck thought this was a good idea? Wonder if they have any T-shirts with, I don’t know, actual fucking news?!?!
As usual, the aptly named “youequalsfucktard” pretty much nails my feelings on the phenomenon of LOLcats. Well done, sir or madam.
When I watched ‘What the Bleep Do We Know?’ a couple of years ago all I could think about was that there were people that took the messages in that film as science and I thought, “what a zany place this world is!”. Empty space is not empty? Objects are made of thoughts rather than substance? Mommy, hold my hand!
Fast forward two years and one website later and where I once believed fucking retardation and petty bunglers floated aimlessly through this fancy network of wires we call the internet, I now believe they’ve found a common destination. There is a funnel for fucktards hellbent on the desecration of typography, proper grammar, good taste, and all that is funny about the world. That funnel isn’t dead space or imaginary, it’s real and it leads to the site where you fucking assholes make these pictures.
Shouldn't they have blocked the release of "Cloverfield" then?
Today’s apparently “quote from other sources” day. From the first TMQ of the season:
NASA’s inspector general released a report saying Bush White House political hires toned down agency statements about global warming, to make the issue seem less important. Buried in the report, which is mainly about climate change, is this nugget: The Spitzer space telescope identified a star system similar to ours but with a dead sun, and NASA prepared a news release saying that was what our solar system may appear like far in the future. The news release was blocked by a political appointee who wrote, “NASA is not in the habit of frightening the public with gloom and doom scenarios.”
Also
Hillary should have played this angry and sarcastic card a bit more:
Hearing little response, Clinton began to grow angry, according to a participant’s notes. She complained of being outmaneuvered in Iowa and being painted as the establishment candidate. The race, she insisted, now had “three front-runners.” More silence ensued. “This has been a very instructive call, talking to myself,” she snapped, and hung up.
Awesome.
Indeed.
Best part of the Clinton campaign postmortem over at the Atlantic:
With Obama’s popularity and fund-raising strength becoming clearer by the day, Penn started advising Clinton in areas technically outside his purview. He began what would become a contentious, and ultimately unsuccessful, push to persuade Clinton to hire “a friendly TV face”—a clear jab at Howard Wolfson, the chief spokesman.
Aug 11
Bush in Awkward Sports Poses
God, I wish I would have gotten on-board this idea a little sooner. It would have been my entry in the Tumblr-to-Coffeetable Book “Get Rich Quick” sweepstakes!
Weirdest question ever.
Moments ago, from CNN’s John King to Bill Richardson (quoted from memory):
“The Denver Post is sponsoring you as the ideal candidate to become Senator Obama’s running mate because of your foreign policy experience. Do you feel that your experience might actually be a detriment to the campaign because it would highlight Senator Obama’s inexperience in foreign policy?”
Huh?