In the wake of the lessons learned from Sandra Fluke, what the Republicans seem to take from it all is not to be apologetic or remorseful of the wrongdoings of one of their sycophant, mouth pieces, but to find ever inventive ways to recreate the media firestorm that followed Rush Limbaugh’s vitriolic, odd, predatory, and cruel comments about Fluke, a private person speaking publicly about a national issue — but to their advantage. Continue reading
Things sure are going swell for good old Mitt Romney these days. Tuesday, he won the super important GOP primary in the not-at-all winnable-in-the-general-election state of Illinois. Then, on Wednesday, he picked up an endorsement from Jeb Bush of the Texas New England Bushes, who would likely be running for President himself if it weren’t for the fact that even Americans have enough of an attention span to remember how well the last Bush presidency worked out for 99.5% of us.
Nevertheless, it’s a big Republican name, and surely it was a big, ringing endorsement, right? Well… Continue reading
I have been watching Fiat’s foray into the US market for the past few months, and every time I see a new commercial for their cars, I am left feeling a bit baffled. Who the heck are these ads speaking to? It is very interesting to see a large company struggling to articulate and define their target customers. Now, I do understand that the ads below are for two different “iterations” of the Fiat 500. However, Fiat didn’t have a brand presence in the US prior to these commercials airing, so it would have been wise for them to use these first few commercials to establish their brand identity. Also, both the Fiat 500 and the Fiat 500 Abarth look pretty much exactly the same, so to the casual observer all of the following commercials could be for the same car. Continue reading
On January 16, Ron Kirk, 46 of Las Vegas, sent his sister a text saying he was going hiking. It was the last anyone would hear from him.
Word spread to Chicago about a week after Ron’s disappearance that he had not been heard from in a few days. I immediately sent him a text to check on him. This was not the first time I had sent him this type of text. He was known for doing some pretty wacky things. One time he rode his bike down I-290 and passed out on the side of the highway. Another time at a big hash event he jumped in the Chicago River and went for a swim (the Chicago River is not the place to just go for a swim). He always ran without his shirt, no matter the temperature and made snow angels like a kid without a care in the world. Continue reading
I can hardly believe it’s been a whole year. Continue reading
Bill O’ Reilly was very indignant on Thursday night, but this time his ire was only tangentially related to his new favorite subject – contraception – as he railed against the NBC drama, Parenthood. Entertainment Weekly’s Ken Tucker reported that on Thursday’s O’Reilly Factor, Bill was upset that Drew and Amy – two high school sweethearts on the show – shared their first sexual encounter without hellfire and brimstone raining down.
“So the consequences were not shown?” O’Reilly bleated angrily at his guests. Of course, the fact that the episode was the season finale escaped him. As did the fact that the day after the sexual encounter wasn’t even shown. But, that’s not his fault. You see, Bill doesn’t even watch the show as evidenced by his question: “So this doesn’t happen every week?” Continue reading
A scandal is continuing to percolate through Canada. It looks more and more like the Conservative Party of Canada have tried to rig the most recent federal election through dirty tricks. Continue reading
My (former?) Jezebellian gal pal, Robyn Pennacchia (otherwise known as NotesFromTheUnderground) wrote a blog post on Monday that got me thinking about why Rush Limbaugh’s current rank foot-in-mouth incident is making bigger waves than usual – or perhaps more accurately, making bigger waves among his advertisers than usual. (At the time of this writing, Think Progress has the number of advertisers that have dropped Limbaugh at 43.) Continue reading
This is the only way to make sure Rick Santorum gets the nomination. Continue reading
