Let’s Play Name That Party!
Chris Young, running for mayor of Providence, recently appeared on the local FOX station for a disastrous interview. The worst part? Choose: a) Young bringing/reading notes, b) saying that he attends church for fun, or c) serenading the befuddled interviewer.
Watch the video. Or try to. Whatever. It’s pretty excruciating.
Categories: Politics
Enemy at Noah’s Gates
Hehehehe:
Wheat & Weeds – Now THIS Is Blatant Anti-Semitism
I love that Apple’s dictionary.app can always be trusted to translate the Yiddishisms.
Categories: Food
I Wanna Retweet This SO BAD
From @wheatweeds:
Dang. Now we have to let him put it in Manhattan. http://americandigest.org/Bomb%20Mot.jpg
If I RT that, heads would explode. Which would be great, but I’m chickening out anyway.
Categories: War and Peace
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXLVI
Yesterday as I was pulling into Target, Radio 1 (still have the free Sirius radio in my car) played Jay Z’s Empire State of Mind, which is a very good song, but which I didn’t need to have in my head all day (especially as I mostly just loop the Alicia Keys bits over and [...]
Categories: Entertainment
Ba’ath House
This amuses the heck outta me:
Greg Gutfeld of Fox News Channel and The Daily Gut has proposed the best response yet to Park51, a.k.a. Cordoba House, the 13-story “community center” and mosque two blocks away from Ground Zero: “I am planning to build and open the first gay bar that caters not only [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
A Week of No Good News
I’m not in a particularly good mood today and the weather (hot, muggy, stagnant) isn’t helping. Neither is this:
[Charles Krauthammer] On Robert Gibbs refusing to comment on the planned mosque at Ground Zero because it’s a “local” issue: It’s no more a local issue than 9/11 [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
The Latter Day IPO
Work part time as a council member in a (working-class, mostly Hispanic) town of 39,000 and make $100,000; get a job as the police chief and make $457,000; get elected mayor and make nearly $800,000.
Truly California is the land of opportunity.
Categories: Politics
Trains! I’ve Solved Our Real Estate Problem Edition
Telegraph – New Zealand mountain village for sale for £470,000
Included in the deal are the hotel, fire station, town hall and 18 houses. Otira, population 44, perches at 3,445ft high in the Southern Alps of South Island. Among the town’s attractions are spectacular snowcapped mountains and a [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
In Which They Went To The Parade
And Today, the Metric System
Well, that was fast. Just yesterday I started fominating about ending the French Revolutionary tyranny of measurements, and today I see this:
TLS – Before London went metric A tribute to the city’s lost architectural dignity, and its unregarded lives Lindsay Duguid
The story of Lost London is straightforward: a largely Georgian city with medieval survivals was [...]
Categories: History
Oona King Rises Again
Huh:
Telegraph – Oona King launches bid to become Labour’s candidate for London mayor
Oona King, the former Labour MP, has become the first candidate to announce the wish to run against Boris Johnson in the 2012 London mayoral election.
Categories: Politics
A Report From Red’s Favourite City
National Post – Odyssey in the U.K.: Glasgow’s new reality
As Britain faces its tightest election race in decades, the National Post’s John Ivison returns home and travels the length of the country to catch the mood. Today, he stops in Glasgow, where it is hard not to believe Britain is “a broken society.”
Yesch.
Categories: People and Current Events
South Park Caved, So It Must Be Israeli Apartheid
The Corner – Mark Steyn: You Can Feed the Crocodile…
…but sometimes he’ll still eat you first. While the initial US reports on the Times Square car bomb concentrated on the by now traditional denials that this was anything to do with terrorism and, even if it was, it was “amateurish”, the Telegraph in [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Seattle In the News: Kleenex Edition
Seattle Times – Local boy with cancer turns into a superhero for a day
Thursday was shaping up to be just another school day for 13-year-old Erik Martin, but then something extraordinary happened: Spider-Man called. Spider-Man happens to be one of the few people who knows that Erik, too, has a [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Seattle In the News! XI
Headline: Naked Woman Tied To Tree In Tacoma Park Not A Problem
Article:
Several police officers responded to a 911 report of a naked woman tied to a tree in Point Defiance Park in Tacoma. Spokesman Mark Fulghum told The News Tribune officers talked with the woman and a man Tuesday in [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
