These sponsors knew damn well who Rush was and the dangers of advertising with his show. Rush's crossing the line and calling Sandra Fluke, who is not a politician or public figure, a 'slut' and worse -- is NOT the worst, or even most hypocritical thing Rush has done. (Hell, even after apologizing, he's still on his tirade against "single, white, ( Read more... )

I used to enjoy it when neo-cons were wrong all the time; now I realize they don't care what they are so long as they are opposed to us...Thirty years ago, religious types still understood that it was wrong to kill. But back then, they didn't consider a fetus, even a very far along fetus, to be a full person -- "according to Exodus 21:22-24, the ( Read more... )

Rick Santorum actually said he was pro-science and it is the Democrats who are anti science. Anti-government neo-cons know that Santorum would mean MORE government in the wrong places, and so there will be more glorious in-party fighting. Newt Gingrich prided himself on how cheap gasoline was when he was speaker of the house, compared to the price ( Read more... )

Athens burns? The monks in Tibet should be the ones rioting, and the people in Greece should be the ones setting themselves on fire -- for the crisis they caused. Austerity measures are one issue, but when the majority of Greece's public were simply not paying their taxes, EVER!… well what the fuck did you expect? The country became a maxed out ( Read more... )

VIDEO -- Clay Shirky: Why SOPA is a bad idea; At the TED offices, Clay Shirky delivers a proper manifesto -- a call to defend our freedom to create, discuss, link and share, rather than passively consume.
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MegaUpload raided, founder arrested; Anonymous launches mass DDoS against entertainment companies and US law ( Read more... )

An Italian cruise ship captain sank his career faster than his ship; Tim Tebow learned why you shouldn't make things you do about God (because you might lose, and then what does that say about God?), and Mitt Romney is still the best the GOP can come up with. Meanwhile -- some other things happened ( Read more... )

That acidic-dirt tasting smog that is shutting down your city is just 'bad weather' -- sure it is, Beijing… It's not like California can measure YOUR air pollution from THEIR coastline or anything ( Read more... )

To simplify my life, here is a bunch of clutter I'm offering for sale...

I got pack of 5, 2-inch zombies, the photo does no justice to the detail these creatures are in. Fairly nice, but I'm over zombies. $4 for all of them together...

Over here are vinyl figures, goggles, a watch, and more toys. Cartoon transformer ($5); pocket Mr. Potato-head ( Read more... )

So Occupy Wall Street is being shoved out of their tents. Not off the street permanently, but out of habitation. So December 6th OWS moves on to Occupy Our Homes -- basically, they'll begin habitation in the empty foreclosed homes ( Read more... )

11-18-2011; recognized as the day the US recognized 1/3 of Americans are in poverty. I'm not sure who the 1/3 are since 1/2 of the people I know are poor. And since I know 1/3 of Americans do work, I know this is just wrong. Take a Fortune 500 company; take the top three CEO wages at that company; divide those wages by the total number of employees ( Read more... )