BlogBites

August 28th, 2008

In publicly sanctioned discourse, a powerful woman is still every misogynist’s bitch, but a powerful black man is no longer anybody’s nigger. Scholars and Rogues » Women for McCain: we will all pay the price of your pique  

August 27th, 2008

d r i f t g l a s s: A Wingnut At Prayer

 

Clinton explicitly stated support for Obama 11 times, Michelle 2 times, Biden 3 times, and she explicitly kicked McCain in the nuts 7 times, by my count. Greg Laden’s Blog : No Way, No How, No McCain  

August 25th, 2008

…switch off the TV and tell me: how many violent crimes, tragic accidents, horrific natural disasters, and war terrors, have you personally witnessed today in real life? Yesterday, the day before, throughout your life? A Blog Around The Clock : Why teaching evolution is dangerous  

August 23rd, 2008

If this arbitrary re-setting of settings continues, I will introduce you to the great big magnet we keep in the Physics department for just such occasions. And I know where the Apple Store is. Uncertain Principles: Memo to Windows Vista  

August 22nd, 2008

As the Iran-friendly Shiite government we spent trillions of dollars and over 4,100 American lives to install in Baghdad moves to end George Bush’s big Iraqi dick-waving party…
…somewhere at the shallow end of the American political gene pool, John McSame and Kapo Joe Lieberman are falling asleep tonight sobbing manfully in each other’s arms, while Lindsay Graham curls up at the foot of their bed, growling and twitching and dreaming fitfully of being chased by fuzzy bunnys with big, pink cocks. d r i f t g l a s s: Rhymes with  

August 21st, 2008

It’s unclear why the titan even has to advertise; its highly successful Windows Vista and Zune media player products have dominated the landscape for … I’m sorry. I just can’t type anymore. I’m laughing too hard. What’s the deal with Seinfeld doing ads for Microsoft? - The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)  

Who will bridge the vast ideological gulf between Clinton’s hawkish, corporate-friendly centrism and Obama’s hawkish, centrist-friendly corporatism? Medium Lobster: Your guide to America’s next vice president  

This is a story of mystery, danger, intrigue and raw, unadulterated stupidity (mine). 15 Minute Lunch: The Third Time, or: My Brother Houdini  

August 20th, 2008

“I’m not a solicitor!” I sort of yelled back through the door. “I’m a politician!”
There was a pause.
I wondered if he had gone away, and then he yelled back, “That’s even worse!” No Solicitors  

I furthermore believe that having been a POW is no special qualification for being President of the United States. Why I Will Not Vote for John McCain  

August 15th, 2008

I wonder what Maj. Orlich was thinking during that pause. ACLU Blog: Because Freedom Can’t Blog Itself: Official Blog of the American Civil Liberties Union » Allegations of Torture of Two Teen Detainees at Guantánamo  

August 12th, 2008

If you think there is anything else going on here you are not even a tiny bit as smart as you think you are and should go back to school. Greg Laden’s Blog : Bush Administration Prefers That Animals Go Extinct, Ruins The Environment for Everybody  

Someday, we will have a political press corps that is mathematically literate. And then I will have a magic pony. Mike the Mad Biologist : Political Reporters, Polls, and Numerical Illiteracy  

That said, I do think it’s funny that part of McCain’s speech on the crisis in Georgia seems to have been taken from Wikipedia. Obsidian Wings: Oops!