I say “No problem!”
Apparently this marks me as a member of today’s fallen youth, as a sarcastic dick and as a presumptuous ingrate.  The phrase alleges that the speaker is a font of Zen beneficence and his or her interlocutor is a hot mess bearing shrill and ridiculous requests.  At least, that’s what Stanley Fish’s [...]

Via Cartophilia.
This is kind of neat.  It’s a good eye into which senators are kind of stupid.  Mark Begich of Alaska can’t write for shit, Jim Risch of Idaho is fairly thorough, and Susan Collins can draw Maine freakishly well.

Good job, honey.  Now cut the shit and vote for the public option.
Saxby Chambliss, on the [...]

Here’s the podcast.
The discussion was whether or not Obama is a disappointment.  Obviously, he is.  I only got two comments in, though–I was at work.
I wasn’t well-informed about the structure of this discussion.  I didn’t know I’d basically be able to jump in and interrupt at any time, and since this is pretty new to [...]

ZOMG, ZOMG, ZOMG, WTF.  This is vomitorious and hilariawful and just plain embarrassing.
Although I want to restrain myself from making unprovable claims that subtly reinforce just how great I not-so-secretly think I am, in my as-yet unpublished book’s first chapter the characters lament how myopic the New York Times is and how they can’t write [...]

This is weird, and wrong.  Why is the scale logarithmic?  Oh yeah–for dramatic effect.  The creative license makes Manhattan’s population look 10x as big during the day, when it probably doubles.

First of all, this is not a map of New York City, it’s a map of the southern half of Manhattan.  New York has five [...]

There’s nothing important going on in the world and, what the hell, Kristof’s got the Middle East and Asia covered, so Tom Friedman decided to write a column extolling Tom Watson for his good round of golf while being old.  My cliche count registers at a four (including the title, “59 Is the New 30,” [...]

I can’t help it, but this image is arresting.

I know, I know, it’s an ad and even though clicking the ads on the blogs you read supports those blogs [Queerty in this case], I’m getting suckerpunched in the solar plexus by a car insurance company.  (If you actually click the ad, you can see a [...]

States that are ugly, conservative, homophobic, culturally sterile or some combination thereof.

Louisiana gets a bye due to New Orleans, but Georgia does not.  It’s a big heap of crazy.  Utah and Wyoming are so beautiful they can go as cuckoo bananas as they want politically and it won’t matter.  Florida and Pennsylvania are too awful [...]

I defy anyone not to hate this, if only for a visceral, autoimmune antipathy toward 1994.  As the 80s were once universally maligned–along with anything suggesting disco, meaning that 1975-87 were the period in question–I think 1989-1994 is the new era of grossness.  In a way, the early 90s were the High 80s.