Posts Tagged “stupid”

My proposal to mitigate overpopulation: Rip the arms off snarky anti-Tea Party bloggers and baste them in their own boiling body fluids

I hate snark. I hate snide­ness. I hate con­de­scen­sion. And though I appre­ci­ate the envi­ron­men­tal blog Grist – it gen­er­ally has well-written arti­cles and rel­a­tively insight­ful analy­sis of climate-change issues — this cheap-shot at Tea Partyers has pushed me past the tol­er­ance thresh­old. Writes Grist blog­ger Sarah Goodyear: “Did you know that the seem­ingly geeky, mild-mannered pro­fes­sion of […]

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Weird Stuff For Sale on Amazon.com

Some items cur­rently avail­able at Amazon.com:  Related arti­cles The Bad Mother (and Bad Nancy) (nancyrommelmann.typepad.com) The Dirty Little Secret to Improving Memory (realclearpolitics.com) The Museum of the Weird (atlasobscura.com) DIY pub­lish­ing: get­ting Amazon and Lulu to co-exist (boingboing.net) A let­ter from the artist as a young man (whenfallsthecoliseum.com) — —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  — – — —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  — – — —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  —  — –

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In Search of Good Pussy

The “HELP WANTED” sign is offi­cially posted at Casa de Borscht. The skinny: Our sad, stu­pid city has forced me into a com­post pro­gram, which has helped attract rats to my home (and to the neigh­bor­hood in gen­eral). Now I’m in dire need of the best exter­mi­na­tor known to man – the American House Cat. In fact, […]

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Rupert Murdoch’s Imperialistic Pop-Tart — Is it a Collapsing Turd?

I’m fairly cer­tain that peo­ple aren’t really catch­ing the sar­casm I employed in this arti­cle. So be it. Clarity is for USA Today. Let eso­ter­ica reign in my buoy­ant slough of prose. ¶ UPDATE! PLEASE ADJUST YOUR RECORDS ACCORDINGLY! Related arti­cles The Daily Is a Dinosaur (reason.com) Questions for Alex Seitz-Wald and ThinkProgress (theagitator.com) Murdoch Wins […]

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