Your right to swing your fist ends where my nose begins.

The Evangelical Crackup

Seeded on Sun Oct 28, 2007 8:53 PM EDT (The New York Times)

The hundred-foot white cross atop the Immanuel Baptist Church in downtown Wichita, Kan., casts a shadow over a neighborhood of payday lenders, pawnbrokers and pornographic video stores. To its parishioners, this has long been the front line of the culture war.

religion, gop, republican-party, homosexuality, hate, evangelical, intolerance, baptist, southern-baptist, commupance

Britney Spears' Mother Plans Parenting Book

Seeded on Sun Oct 28, 2007 10:26 AM EDT (Yahoo! News)

As lawyers for Britney Spears and her ex-husband fought a court battle over custody of their two young sons, a publisher said on Friday that the pop star's mother is writing a book about parenting.

entertainment, books, celebrity, britney-spears

Why can't candidates say the 'F' word?

Seeded on Sat Oct 27, 2007 1:02 PM EDT (Tucson Citizen)

It's like the woman trying to get the man to say, "I love you." He'll say he enjoys her company, she's the only one for him, how great she is, on and on. The woman's frustration is exposed when she asks: "Why can't you say, 'I love you'?" Just like that, why can't these candida …

politics, freedom, presidential-race, democrat, republican

Cool Thunderbird Extension: MboxImport

Seeded on Sat Oct 27, 2007 10:08 AM EDT (nic-nac-project.de)

This extension adds import/export controls for email files, such as that crap you get from forwards where it is an .eml file. This will import the file directly to whatever folder you want.

technology, email, firefox, mozilla, thunderbird

$2,400,000,000,000

Seeded on Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:53 PM EDT (Crooks and Liars)

That's right. Eleven zeros. New estimates out this week by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office place the cost of the Iraq occupation through 2017 at 2.4 TRILLION dollars, or put another way, $8,000 for every man, woman and child in the US.

us-news, iraq, war, bush, republicans, fiscal-responsibilty, defecit, lies

Brownie, You've Got a Heck of a Job

Seeded on Fri Oct 26, 2007 2:48 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)

Washington Wire was a little stunned to receive a press release today hawking disgraced former Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Michael Brown as "available for interviews" to discuss the wildfire crisis in Southern California.

us-news, michael-brown, fema, new-orleans, southern-california, hurricane, flood, fire, wildfire, brownie

Who'd Make the Hottest First Lady?

Seeded on Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:06 PM EDT (calamityjon.livejournal.com)

It's time to delve into that most pertinent of Election Year debates - Who'd make the hottest First Lady! Dust off your objectification boys, let's pick a FLILF!

politics, first-lady, guliani, huckabee, keyes, hunter, mccain, paul, romney, tancredo

Extreme Halloween: A Pumpkin's Worst Nightmare

Seeded on Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:42 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Tom Nardone thinks that corporate marketers have taken the scare out of Halloween, making the day of ghouls and goblins about as frightening as a "Hello Kitty" calendar.

arts, halloween, jack-o-lantern, pumpkin, scary, monsters, ghouls, goblins, tom-nardone

Castro: Bush could spark nuclear war

Seeded on Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:34 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Fidel Castro is accusing President Bush of threatening the world with nuclear war and famine — an attack on Washington that comes as the White House is set to announce new plans to draw Cuba away from communism.

world-news, bush, castro, war, nuclear-war, united-states, cuba, communism, peace

Obesity 'epidemic' turns global

Seeded on Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:50 PM EDT (BBC News)

People are getting fatter in all parts of the world, with the possible exception of south and east Asia, a one-day global snapshot shows.

health, obesity, overweight

Mark Mothersbaugh's Beautiful Mutants book

Seeded on Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:36 PM EDT (Boing Boing)

DEVO founder Mark Mothersbaugh has published a hardcover book collecting his Beautiful Mutants series of "corrected" photographs. As Mothersbaugh writes, these are "images pulled from man's past... then corrected into sickeningly beautiful beings.

entertainment, art, books, photography, devo, mark-mothersbaugh, mutato-muzika

Dumbledore Pride! Get your t-shirts here

Seeded on Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:32 PM EDT (dumbledorepride.com)

Following JK Rowling's announcement that Dumbledore is gay comes this line of Dumbledore Pride shirts.

entertainment, harry-potter, jk-rowling, dumbledore, books, humor

Why does Glenn Beck hate California so much?

Seeded on Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:28 PM EDT (Salon.com)

Right-wing blowhard Glenn Beck didn't make any friends in Southern California on Monday. Media Matters caught him in flagrante delicto on his talk radio show, declaring, "I think there is a handful of people who hate America.

us-news, glenn-beck, california, disaster, gop, republican, rush-limbaugh, talk-radio

Marisa Tomei - Tomei Asks Parents To Avoid Doggie-style Sex Scene

Seeded on Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:23 PM EDT (contactmusic.com)

Oscar winner MARISA TOMEI is begging her parents to stay away from her new movie BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD - because it features a doggie style sex scene with co-star PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN.

entertainment, marisa-tomei, philip-seymour-hoffman, before-the-devil-knows-youre-dead, hot-chicks

Looking for attractive people? Don't go to...

Seeded on Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:19 PM EDT (Yahoo! News)

Philadelphia is home to the least attractive people in the United States, a survey of visitors and residents showed on Friday.

us-news, philadelphia, pennsylvania, tourism, style

Judge Loses Pants, Then Lawsuit, and now Job

Seeded on Tue Oct 23, 2007 2:14 PM EDT (The Washington Post)

Roy L. Pearson Jr., the judge who attempted to sue his dry cleaners for $54 million for losing his pants, is about to lose his job as an administrative law judge.

us-news, roy-pearson, lawsuits, law, justice

Parental Exchange Program

Mon Oct 22, 2007 9:40 AM EDT

More than one of my friends has been going through some rough patches with parents: everything from dealing with financial crap to helping recover from injuries to helping manage the normally simple business of life.

Continue reading this entry ...

family, children, parents, generation-x, baby-boomers, alcoholism

How the AP busted Comcast for blocking BitTorrent

Seeded on Sun Oct 21, 2007 8:55 PM EDT (Boing Boing)

In the wake of yesterday's revelation that AP had discovered secret, anti-BitTorrent software running on Comcast's network, a followup story explaining the clever detective work the AP did in rooting out this little shenanigan:

technology, bit-torrent, comcast

Boy Scouts' rent boosted by $199,999 a year

Seeded on Sun Oct 21, 2007 10:06 AM EDT (The Seattle Times)

Philadelphia officials have decided the Boy Scouts chapter must pay fair-market rent of $200,000 a year for its city-owned headquarters because it refuses to permit gay Scouts.

us-news, boy-scouts, discrimination, philadelphia, gay

Sarah Maria Santorum's tears inspire song

Seeded on Thu Oct 18, 2007 1:42 PM EDT (Politico)

This is the story of a defeated senator, his crying daughter, a Nashville songwriter and Martina McBride, the country music star.

politics, rick-santorum, martina-mcbride, conservativism, music, not-parody

Manhood road ad 'very successful'

Seeded on Mon Oct 15, 2007 2:51 PM EDT (BBC News)

An Australian ad campaign aiming to reduce road deaths by questioning the manhood of speeding drivers has proved a great success, a survey suggests.

world-news, australia, speeding, advertising

'Babylon Fields'—CBS's Buried Zombie Necrophilia Pilot Unearthed

Seeded on Mon Oct 15, 2007 1:00 PM EDT (tvweek.com)

Zombie sex on CBS. That is what we missed this fall.

arts, tv, television, cbs, pilot, programming, zombies

Fred Thompson: 'Was never really willing to pay price'

Seeded on Sat Oct 13, 2007 2:20 PM EDT (swamppolitics.com)

...when a candidate shows a curious indifference, thinks longer than others about launching a campaign, moves and talks slowly and doesn't act like they've just finished their sixth cup of coffee in an hour, the American media tends to question such drive. Or lack of it.

politics, fred-thompson, election, republicans, gop

Dear Cute Young Paranoid Lady

Seeded on Thu Oct 11, 2007 5:23 PM EDT (craigslist)

This post is probably one of the better ones from craigslist I've seen in a while.Yes, I saw you. Yes, you are probably attractive to a certain demographic. Yes, I am unattractive to a larger demographic. Yes, I am middle aged and overweight....

craigslist, personals, i-saw-you