After waking up to the news of Proposition 8's success, I started a missive to all of my family and friends back in NYC. I realized too late that the rest of the country had no idea of the evil of the Yes on 8 campaign. In fact, my mother didn't even know a vote against gay marriage was on the ballot!

And being that my family and virtually all of ( Read more... )

Jesus effing Christ, that man is the stupidest human being on the face of the planet.

Did he *really* just say "I'm going to console with my advisors"?!

By now, we have all read about the Republican owner of Manhunt supporting John McCain, thanks to our friends JoeMyGod (whose blog you really should be reading if you aren't already) and Towleroad.

Because I’m a cynical New Yorker at heart, I'm guessing about 80% of you probably scanned the items lackadaisically and turned your attentions back to ( Read more... )

Some people get upset at the mispronunciation of bruschetta, others flip out when people misuse apostrophes.

I would be among the latter.  Now I found a whole website devoted to my pet peeve!  I particularly enjoyed "Ladie's Room."

Please, people, use apostrophe's apostrophes correctly!

Just now, Anna McCloy, wife of the lone survivor of that mine disaster somewhere in Appalachia, said the following on the Today Show:

"He's conversating very well."

'CONVERSATE' is not a word, you hillbilly!

That's all.

Today, when I wasn’t coughing my brains out or blowing my nose or generally trying to get over this awful head and chest cold… and when I wasn’t answering the phones and signing for packages and trying to run the office all by myself…. I was doing a little dance of schadenfreude-laden joy over this….

New clues in mystery story of elusive S.F. ( Read more... )

Maybe someone can help enlighten me on this....

Is it a requirement of Subway that their employees be the stupidest people on the face of the earth?

There is a new chick in the Subway near my office who clearly has never made a sandwich before in her life. She takes the mayo or mustard or whatever condiment I choose that day and squirts a single ( Read more... )