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Jason Russell | PMC Magazine
"I am going to help end the longest running war in Africa, get Joseph Kony arrested & redefine international justice. Then I am going to direct a Hollywood musical."
failure  politics  christwhatanasshole 
11 weeks ago by ignatz
Spurned mistress YaVaughnie Wilkins takes revenge on Charles E. Phillips by plastering U.S. cities with compromising posters | Mail Online
The spurned mistress of one of Barack Obama's top economic advisers has exacted revenge by plastering details of their affair on giant billboard posters across the U.S.
sex  politics  ha 
february 2012 by ignatz
David Brooks Wrong Inequality Column - The Case Against David Brooks, Man of the Privileged Few - Esquire
I don't think it's too strident to demand at this point that David Brooks be hauled up before a jury consisting of everyone else in America and forced to defend himself against several million counts of being an insufferable twat in a public place.
christwhatanasshole  politics  media  davidbrooks 
november 2011 by ignatz
The Ruse of the Creative Class
The "Creative Class" crap was made up by a motivational speaker whose name is actually Florida.
sociology  christwhatanasshole  politics  usa  economics  creativeclass  failure 
october 2011 by ignatz
Victor Serge: Repression (1926)
An acquaintance with the methods and proceedings of this police force is of immediate practical interest for every revolutionary; for the defence of capitalism everywhere uses the same tools; and moreover all police forces work together and are similar to each other.
revolution  politics  russia  reference  oppression 
may 2011 by ignatz
ladypoverty
A view of the top, from a perspective at the bottom
blog  politics  anarchism 
march 2011 by ignatz
Templates for responding to excesses of an ally | Al Jazeera Blogs
If you want to be a U.S. govt spokesperson, keep these handy
politics  ha  usa  news 
january 2011 by ignatz
New documents: Hitler-mocking dog enraged Nazis
Newly discovered documents have revealed a bizarre footnote to the history of the Second World War: a Finnish mutt whose imitation of the Hitler salute enraged the Nazis so deeply that they started an obsessive campaign against the dog's owner.
dogs  news  nazis  wwii  failure  politics  oppression 
january 2011 by ignatz
Overexposed! - Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty © 2011
Anna Chapman hits the big time, receives beets onstage.
russia  politics  espionage  beets 
january 2011 by ignatz
bit-player » Blog Archive » A hole in the bottom of the ocean
A good perspective on the Gulf of Mexico disaster as an industrial accident and the necessity of an independent investigatory body.
oil  disasters  engineering  bp  deepwaterhorizon  politics  failure 
june 2010 by ignatz
Balkans via Bohemia: Exile and Beyond: An Essay on Dubravka Ugrešić
"In short, Croatia picked the wrong witch. And the world of letters is richer for it."
writers  literature  europe  croatia  yugoslavia  politics 
may 2010 by ignatz
slacktivist: Evangelicals and immigration
Traditionally Evangelicals support immigration, but in the U.S. they're predominantly conservative politically. The clash is interesting.
religion  usa  politics  immigration 
november 2009 by ignatz
Visualising the Guardian Datablog | Information Is Beautiful
visualizing the relative dangers of various recreational drugs versus their reported dangers
drugs  politics  visualization  statistics  publichealth 
november 2009 by ignatz
[from positivejeff] California's Real Death Panels
"One of every five requests for medical claims for insured patients, even when recommended by a patient's physician, are rejected by California's largest private insurers."
politics  healthcare 
september 2009 by ignatz
now what you hear is not a test « Periscope Depth
So: rising in social class through the use of labor and capital. Sticking together as a family. And the struggle for black identity in America. If I had to capture the opposite of those three concepts in a single symbol, it’d be a North Carolina hipster playing a trombone on his iPhone.
culture  doh  failure  politics  popculture  race  usa 
august 2009 by ignatz
Kung Fu Monkey: Bar Talk
saved for the Saudi Prince story.
usa  bartending  politics 
august 2009 by ignatz
LAFD Brownout Closures
The firefighters' union has made an interactive map of the reductions in service coming with budget cuts.
lafd  losangeles  geo  mapping  googlemaps  gmaps  politics  union  budget  firedepartment 
august 2009 by ignatz
Repair California - Californians for a Constitutional Convention
Politicial organization advocating a constitutional convention in California
california  politics 
july 2009 by ignatz
396 – “You take it – No, you take it”: the Bir Tawil Trapezoid « Strange Maps
The Bir Tawil Triangle is a desert of sand and rocks on the border between Egypt and the Sudan. It is also officially the most undesired territory in the world.
maps  geography  politics  africa 
june 2009 by ignatz
Amazon.com: BIRTH CONTROL IS SINFUL IN THE CHRISTIAN MARRIAGES and also ROBBING GOD OF PRIESTHOOD CHILDREN!!: Eliyzabeth Anderson: Books
THIS BOOK MAY BE REVISED: BECAUSE OF COMPUTER DICTATORS: MANY WORDS IN THIS BOOK: MADE HAVE BEEN CHANGED: TO>>DISCREDIT: THE AUTHOR.
psychoceramics  religion  madness  psychiatry  politics  wackos  publishing  amazon 
may 2009 by ignatz
Jimmy Carter's Law Day speech in 1974
"So I come here speaking to you today about your subject with a base for my information founded on Reinhold Niebuhr and Bob Dylan."
lawday  politics  70s  jimmycarter  law  justice  speech  essay 
may 2009 by ignatz
Jaramillo takes the stand | carona, jaramillo, county, sheriff, trial - News - OCRegister.com
Oh dear, our now ex-sheriff. "Mike Carona had the bad habit of having sexual relationships with people who worked for him,'' Jaramillo said. "He asked, whether, in my opinion the activity (in the helicopter) … would constitute membership in the mile-high club,'' Jaramillo recalled of one conversation.
sex  failure  politics  orangecounty 
april 2009 by ignatz
Idiot Legal Arguments Page 1
List of various crank legal strategies, including the always popular "fringe on the flag" and "capital letters" ideas.
cranks  psychoceramics  politics  usa  failure  law  militia  via:mendel 
april 2009 by ignatz
Thousands join talk show hosts in tax protest
The usual talk radio victims show up for a tea party protest. 'Some wore buttons. One man brought a bloody effigy head of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and waved it from the end of a pike, while the crowd joined their hosts in a chant of "Repeal, recall, revolt."'
orangecounty  politics  talkradio  demagoguery  taxes  teaparty 
march 2009 by ignatz
La Figa » Dobson Steps Down From Focus on the Family, Replaced by Real-Life Dr. Strangelove
Onward, Christian soldiers! As Rev. James Dobson steps down as the once-influential crank chairman of the conservative Focus on the Family, he is being replaced by Ret. Airforce Lt. Gen. Patrick P. Caruana, a recently retired Vice President for Northrop Grumman Space Technology who's a real life Dr Strangelove.
villainy  religion  usa  politics  churchianity  fotf  dobson 
march 2009 by ignatz
Backstabber: Is Rick Santelli High On Koch? - The Playboy Blog
What we discovered is that Santelli’s “rant” was not at all spontaneous as his alleged fans claim, but rather it was a carefully-planned trigger for the anti-Obama campaign
usa  politics  gop  republicans  santelli  astroturf 
march 2009 by ignatz
Bobby Jindal and Kenneth the Page in 2012 | Boy Golly We Sure Want to be President!!!!
Our daddy always told us that bees were God's way of showing us he hated witches. We think it's high time someone investigated the bee-dieoff/witch connection!
usa  ha  politics 
february 2009 by ignatz
Water Cooler Games - videogames with an agenda
a forum for the uses of videogames in advertising, politics, education, and other everyday activities, outside the sphere of entertainment
politics  entertainment  games  media  videogames  gaming 
february 2009 by ignatz
Is God To Blame For America's Collapse? - Political Machine - Politics Blog, Opinion and Analysis - AOL News
"Joe six-pack has a sense something is happening," Pastor Hitchcock said at the prophecy meeting. "You don't have to be politically astute."
failure  religion  politics  via:kellyramsey  churchianity 
february 2009 by ignatz
Families want answers from man who says he dissolved 300 people - Los Angeles Times
Santiago Meza Lopez, known as El Pozolero (the Stew Maker), says he stuffed bodies into barrels of lye for drug cartels. He may be a good source of information about missing loved ones.
drugs  crime  politics  death  murder  mexico 
february 2009 by ignatz
Orwell: Politics and the English Language
Read this at least quarterly to remind yourself of what you're exposed to every day.
politics  culture  writing  orwell  language  english 
january 2009 by ignatz
N.I.M. Front Door, NIM International Political Lobby, National Independents Movement
They most emphatically don't want to kill the President, are seriously not racists, are sad that Jews were mistreated without the knowledge of most Germans, and really do accept nonwhites in their organization, as long as they're not felons.
failure  usa  politics  obama  race  psychoceramics  nazis  fascism  webdesign  kooks 
january 2009 by ignatz
Palin Fan Mistakenly Buys Notorious Effigy With Noose On eBay - cbs2.com
A Sarah Palin supporter has suffered buyer's remorse after winning an eBay auction for an effigy that was hung by a noose from a West Hollywood home.
failure  commerce  usa  politics  sarahpalin  effigies 
january 2009 by ignatz
Inauguration Day | Popular Science
satellite view of the inauguration. the crowds look like lint.
usa  news  visualization  politics  photos  space  satellite 
january 2009 by ignatz
The Onion Bashes Bush (Literally)
The Onion's great series of wishful thinking news items in which W gets horribly injured
usa  ha  politics  theonion  angry  w  bush 
january 2009 by ignatz
PETA - Save the Sea Kittens
I like kitten sticks because they don't taste as "kitteny."
peta  failure  politics  animalrights  yeesh 
january 2009 by ignatz
FT.com / Comment / Analysis - California scheming
Everyone wants a piece of the green action that supposedly will get hot with the new administration
commerce  usa  politics  obama  technology  environment  green  stimulus 
january 2009 by ignatz
NCTC.gov - 2009 Multimedia Counterterrorism Calendar
I am not sure why we have a National Counterterrorism Calendar, but here it is.
usa  politics  government  terrorism  calendar 
january 2009 by ignatz
Anonymous | Futility Closet
"B. Traven," the author of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, is an anonymous mystery.
politics  history  writing  writers  b.traven 
december 2008 by ignatz
Obamafy Photo Booth Plugin
obamify yourself in photobooth with shephard fairey style plugin
politics  usa  obama  ha  photography  photomanipulation  photobooth  osx  mac 
november 2008 by ignatz
globeandmail.com: Saying CF is a 'white' disease, Carleton students drop Shinerama
Area disease not inclusive enough to warrant charity, says student association. Forehead slap from others heard the world 'round.
politics  failure  disease  charity  no  cysticfibrosis  cf  villainy  gaaaah 
november 2008 by ignatz
Million Fax on Washington
"President Obama should demand and receive a full briefing by his military services and intelligence agencies regarding the extraterrestrial presence and related phenomena..."
aliens  ufo  failure  politics  usa  activism  psychoceramics 
november 2008 by ignatz
Cardinal Stafford at CUA: Obama is Aggressive, Disruptive and Apocalyptic' (Catholic PRWire)
"The Cardinal, who is one of the highest ranking American bishops at the Vatican, said that for the Church, the years of Obama’s presidency will be comparable with Jesus’ Agony in the Garden."
religion  catholic  yeesh  usa  politics  obama  via:kellyramsey 
november 2008 by ignatz
White Guilt Emancipation Declaration (@ National Black Republican Association)
"We, black American citizens of the United States of America and of the National Black Republican Association, do hereby declare that our fellow white American citizens are now, henceforth and forever more free of White Guilt."
via:kellyramsey  gaaaah  usa  politics  race  what 
november 2008 by ignatz
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