When exit polls showed that 70 percent of blacks had voted in favor of Prop 8, some Mormons, including Jordan [Ferney], thought it was unfair that people weren't protesting outside black churches. "It's because that's an intimidating crowd," she says. "Whereas me and my little 3-year-old walking out of a church isn't very scary. It's really easy to ( Read more... )

So somehow the question of whether some of us lowly bureaucrats would have to go home due to the never-ending series of showdowns over aspects of the Federal budget has manifested itself in my office in the form of one coworker promising to buy us all shutdown beers (he is confident that he will never have to do this ( Read more... )

My place of employment solicits public comments. We also, honestly, do read every comment.

Reading this is never not funny to me. Just, like, what is going on?

Reject NAIS, National Animal Identification System LET STOP ALL THIS MESS AND GET ON THE ROAD TO CLEAN IT UP FOR KIDS/CHILDREN. WE NEED TO FIGHT THIS AND ALSO OUR FACTORY, OUR PLACE WERE ( Read more... )

Ugh.

I usually like Pandagon for the political articles and especially the Nice Guy callout posts but Amanda Marcotte is the ACTUAL WORST when it comes to talking about foodPlus for someone who goes on and on and on about cooking, the pics from her CSA posts always look, well, kind of unappetizing. It's 1000000x worse since she's started shooting ( Read more... )

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...especially at the end of a week that was bookended by me being woken up at ungodly hours by the dump truck coming to empty the dumpster in my building's parking lot. Why it needed to come twice I have no idea ( Read more... )

Last week pretty much kicked my ass in terms of being sick at a time when I absolutely could not take the time to be sick. So, by the end of the week when I was running on TheraFlu and caffeine, I was not at all in a state to see a poster for Project Rachel in the Metro on my way to work ( Read more... )

Not that I'm typically one to agree too strongly with Jezebel, but American Apparel will, indeed make you look like a fat hooker. Trufax!

Q.E.D.:

What the candy-coated hell?


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I suppose I'm glad that some new avatar trend has replaced all those "why so serious?" efforts, but there's a bit of WTF-ery here as well, although, I admit, this one is pretty amusing:


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From the Minutes of the Meeting of January 20, 1887:A petition of the citizens of the eighth district of Anne Arundel County, asking that they be furnished with a cannon to protect oyster grounds from depredation, was presented to the Board and ordered to be filed. The Board decided that they have no authority for such proceedings - besides they ( Read more... )