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In case there was any doubt that we’re living in the 80s. On steroids. Click the link to see it full size.
(Hat tip and explanation, if you’re unsure why this is the tackiest thing ever.)
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9/11 Truthers, with all their nonsense and conspiracy theories, have made it nearly impossible to write about the real evidence that there might have been another, more likely conspiracy of some sort without feeling like you’re going to get lumped with the Truthers. This makes me angry. That is all.
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How can you have an abortion after you give birth? In other words, how do you terminate a pregnancy when you’re not pregnant? No wonder abortion rights are such a profound source of the existential crisis for right wingers. If you’re a noxious person, I wouldn’t be surprised if you had middle of the night fears that your sainted mother might change her mind about having you 40 or 50 years after you’re born.
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Reading articles like this (hat tip) before my coffee has fully started me on my day of sunny optimism leads me to wail and moan my neighbors who don’t take their citizenship duties seriously. Which is unfair of me, I suppose, since it’s far from guaranteed that everyone is going to find politics as interesting as I do. But still, the fate of the world often rests far too often on the shoulders of low information voters, and that pisses me off.
But neither McCain nor Obama can be considered a generic candidate, because both enjoy strong appeal among independent voters. This is particularly the case for McCain, who has largely managed to avoid the stigma attached to the tarnished Republican brand. In a recent poll conducted for NBC News and the Wall Street Journal, only 31% of voters had a favorable view of the Republican Party, compared with 48% who held a negative one. But McCain’s numbers were nearly the reverse: 42% viewed him positively, against 30% unfavorably.
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I think this most recent attempt by Maureen Dowd to tar Barack Obama as The Gay will backfire. It’s a classic example of her worst impulse to think that she’s speaking for the common man by assuming that the common man is 100% douchebag. This is empathy, you know. Her low opinion of the great unwashed flyover masses really shines in this quote:
“After 200,000 people thronged to see Obama at the Victory Column in Berlin, christening him “Redeemer” and “Savior,” it turned out Sarko was also Obamarized, as the Germans were calling the mesmerizing effect.
“You must want a cigarette after that,” I teased the candidate after the amorous joint press conference, as he flew from Paris to London for the finale of his grand tour.
“I think we could work well together,” he said of Sarko, smiling broadly.”
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Okay, so I bought some T-shirts from a local store that makes them. Basic goofy stuff—a picture of a Moog synthesizer, an argyle design with some skeletons, a drawing of Iron Man by Daniel Johnston for Marc, and a T-shirt that cracked me up because I thought of it as a commentary on today’s downloaded music wars. I thought someone made it up as a reminder of how these things come and go, and that the over-the-top nature of it pointed to a parody.
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Girls have caught up to boys in math scores.
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My man and I wandered around Netroots Nation interviewing people about reproductive rights. Here’s the results. Enjoy!
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The story is simple. Man who fashions himself a pick-up artist meets woman. Gets her to hand over a phone number. Calls her and leaves no doubt in her mind about whether or not she should ever acknowledge his existence. Calls again, irate that she didn’t run over to his house and start sucking his cock immediately. Becomes internet legend overnight when she puts both phone messages online. The thin excuse for saying this is political is that this guy is known for claiming he’s a victim of “feminist alarmism” that’s emasculated society, because he was stripped of his medical license for sexually assaulting patients.
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Sorry to come from an on-and-off Netroots Nation plus moving-inspired break to write about vaccinations again, but seriously, there is something screwy going on with the anti-vaccination crankery out there. At Netroots Nation, the most expensive booth—easily the most expensive booth—in the exhibit hall was an anti-vaccination booth. It was tall, and they had a set of volunteers in matching uniforms, and the booth had a number of widescreen HD TVs blasting anti-vaccination crankery about how mercury in vaccinations causes autism. It doesn’t. I’m sure other baseless assertions were being tossed around, because the first sign of crankery is that when the argument is proven completely false, hang onto your conclusions (in this case, vaccines cause autism) and change the arguments. Lawrence Lessig called out the anti-vaccination cranks during his speech, and castigated them for exploiting the vulnerability of the parents of autistic children, so I’m glad they were confronted in some way. I thought about it, but couldn’t for the life of me think of what such a confrontation would look like, or what results it would produce.
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