What the fuck?  Who gets that?  Casual homophobia is universal; getting a cliched biblical proscription of it tattooed on your arm is seriously demented.  Does he roll up his sleeve to threaten everyone around him, or is it a warning to himself?
There is nothing worse than meaning.  Anytime people enshrine something personally meaningful to themselves [...]

Barack Obama is toying with a dubious distinction, that he might shortly be a worse president than Bush.
I’m certainly not in a calm state of mind as I write that, but I believe it to be true.  Of course, for sheer idiocy and embarrassment, only a President Palin could out-hustle Bush.  But Obama’s catastrophic mishandling [...]

What John Cole said.
Obama is reading Tom Friedman’s book while vacationing in Martha’s Vineyard.  Vomitorious!   (Although as a devoted Ann Coulter reader, I should probably read it).

It’s official: I now hate President Obama.  Maybe next he’ll read some tract put out by the Kennedy Compound Press about why it’s bad to build a wind farm [...]

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myself from making unprovable claims that subtly reinforce just how great I not-so-secretly think I am, in my as-yet unpublished book’s first chapter the characters lament how myopic the New York Times is and how they can’t write [...]

So the first two episodes purged the oldest contestant–a Southern drag queen with little more than a persona and a routine–and a bizarre, crypto-Joan Crawford who was probably more of a performance artist than a drag queen since she wasn’t beautiful, passable or conversant in contemporary pop culture.
This augured badly.  I figured RuPaul was winnowing [...]

I’m not scolding.  Smart people enjoy stupid shit, and I’m as big a lover of bright, shiny things as anyone else.  But this was just hilarious.  The Times website is currently a roster of meaningless crap, bookended by truly pointless articles that come from the Week in Review and Metro sections.
When people say they hate [...]

What is up with this?

It looks like Krang in a top hat.  Or a lepidopterist with a profusion of goiters.  Gah.

Bill in Portland Maine (or BiPM to those in the know) has a series where he “grills” the front page editors and subsequently the prominent diarists on Daily Kos, including questions about whether they prefer dogs or cats and what they like to cook.  I do think BiPM is pretty funny sometimes, so I’m not [...]

I blame VH1 for the resurgence of meaningless lists over the past decade, since they started with the 100 Greatest Bands of All Time.  (None was more self-serving and ridiculous than Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, which had “Like a Rolling Stone” and “Satisfaction” by the Rolling Stones at no. 1 and [...]