Are you ready? Put your gimp back in his cage because it’s TIME FOR SOME MUTHERFUCKIN DEBATIN!
The Republicans are holding their first debate tonight at 8 p.m. It’s going to be held in the most freedom-loving corner of America: New Hampshire. Continue reading
Great Cesar’s Ghost! What are we newsy types going to do in a post-Weiner world? Continue reading
I am truly ashamed to be a journalist right now. Continue reading
Clara Luper, organizer of sit-ins that resulted in desegregating 38 Katz Drug Stores across the Midwest, has died. In 1958, she lead 13 other black youth to sit-in at the all-white lunch counter in the Katz Drug Store in Oklahoma City. After two unsuccessful attempts, they were eventually served on their third effort. Ms. Luper continued her contributions to progress for blacks by working for the NAACP for many years. She was 88.
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On the three-month anniversary of the March 11 earthquake in Japan, protesters around the country took to the streets to protest nuclear power after the true scale of the nuclear disaster and details of gross mismanagement of the Fukushima Daiichi power plant by the Japanese government and TEPCO came to light. Rally organizers in Tokyo say about 20,000 people participated in the demonstration. Continue reading
At the start of the economic downturn I was downsized at my newspaper job – and then I promptly panicked. I knew there were actual Mensa members who I was competing against for jobs and my self-confidence disappeared. I am smart enough to know that when I get scared I get dumb, but that didn’t stop me from taking the first job I was offered – wearing a name tag in a big box store.
And yes, it was as horrible as you imagine that it would be. Continue reading
Not to go all Jezebel on your ass, but: this really pissed me off.
In Vanity Fair’s VF Daily blog, which is usually very funny thanks to writer Juli Weiner, Emma Gilbey Keller wrote the Anthony Weiner scandal was his wife’s fault because she travels too much and doesn’t spend enough time with him. A select quotes: “Lighten the load and stay home.”
The gravestones can be seen now, from the far side of Meadow Lake. They rise, chunks of slate embedded into a green hill, into a blue sky, looking like a skyline for a town of the dead. Massive oak and weeping willows once gave the dead privacy, but those trees are no more. Continue reading
The queen of all media and synergistic brain vomit, Sarah Palin, would like you to come see her at the movies! Yes, I can’t think of a better way to lobotomize myself, so sure, let’s all go to the movies and watch Sarah Palin dance around with a crown of doughnuts on her head while she winks and garbles human language and just basically runs around in a movie about lies and magic hair bumpits. Fantastic!
On with the show!
The City of Detroit suffered massive power outages yesterday as three of the five lines at the ailing Mistersky Power Plant that receive power from DTE Energy failed causing traffic issues downtown. Mayoral spokesman Karen Dumas issued a statement saying that the city believed the outages were due to additional strain on the system in the wake of the recent heat wave. Continue reading