Barack sez, "You ain't my bitch, nigga, buy your own damn fries!"

If you’ve ever read President Obama’s Dreams From My Father, good for you. I couldn’t get past the foreword.

I wish I had. Because today I discovered that there’s a fairly juicy little subplot in the book, involving one of Obama’s high school friends.

Ray, a fellow classmate of ( Read more... )

from qilora:

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who came back today to find that her computer had apparently mourned her absence so much that it died. We're going to get it fixed or otherwise get her a new mac ( Read more... )

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from rhapsody_98 who just loves to taunt me.

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Actually they're from Louisiana apparently, but it's close enough. I'm sure they both were born and/or lived much of their lives in Ocala.

Nevertheless, behold the miraculous works of the FSM. Now since FSM is a false god - just imagine how much Her Holy Hooves can do for you!

Another reason why Neil Gaiman rules.

WFMU shares Cambodian garage rock with us. Same story, kids in Cambodia listening to the Beatles and the Stones and cranking out garage music based on their inspirations. There's little info about most of these bands, however, due to the massacre spearheaded by the faux-Commies known as the Khmer Rouge, in ( Read more... )

Pictures of Bush and company, doctored to look like "mug shots," are stirring up controversy in the NY Public library ( Read more... )

Righties like to accuse the ACLU of hating America, attacking Christians, blah blah blah. It's your usual delusional silliness, of course - but here's a case where both I, Sir Michael L. Foley and members of the right-wing can agree ( Read more... )

Your stupid fundies for the day.

Bill Nye, the harmless children's edu-tainer known as "The Science Guy," managed to offend a select group of adults in Waco, Texas at a presentation, when he suggested that the moon does not emit light, but instead reflects the light of the sun ( Read more... )

Your stupid cop of the day ( Read more... )

As Maddox rightly notes, wearing a Japanese t-shirt doesn't make you Japanese.
They wear clothing with Japanese or Chinese characters on it that translate to English phrases like "good will" or "long life." They wouldn't be able to get away with wearing a shirt that said "long life" in English because it would just look stupid, but as soon as it's ( Read more... )