“When a girl tells you you’re not getting any, before you even try… you;re gettin’ some.”
“Think of it as a point system. One for flowers. Two for dinner. Three for an orgasm. You need 26 points for them to trust you. Then you can go back to watching football.”
- Ashton Kutcher, Spread
“Shit baby, I don’t want that kind of relationship. I just want to fuck you.”
- Tucker Max, I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell
Quite literally.
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Real America: The Great American Teen SUV Death Race
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And parts one and two of my Amerca’s Aug Insanity Trilogy (Part 3 will be up soon)
A Primer for the Coastal Elite: What Do The Tea Party Folks Want?
The Last of the Hot Summer Town Halls: How We’ve All Been Fooled By The Health Care Debate
Left: Senator Jim Webb traveled to Myanmar and secured the release of John Yettaw, the American who, uninvited, swam across to activist detainee Aung San Suu Ky’s residence. The act resulted in Suu Ky being charged with breaking the rules of her house arrest even though she had no way to stop him. She was sentenced to more house arrest. Tettaw had been sentenced to several years of hard labor. But has now been rescued.
Right: Former President Clinton traveled to North Korea to secure the release of two Current TV journalist arested for illegally crossing the border. They had been sentenced to years of hard labor.
In both cases, you have Americans overseaes in dangerous places naively mucking about and then needing rescue by our hero officials. But the collateral damage of their behavior is not repaired. It is very likely that the journalists in North Korea helped officials there to discover North Korean nationals who were working on smuggling people out to China. (Despite all the fawning nterviews of the two journalists, the white cameraman who was accompanying them, Mitch Koss, and who escaped the arrest, curiously will not talk on despite being a veteran news producer for CNN, ABC News and PBS,.) Meanwhile, Kim Seong-cheol, the ethnic-Korean Chinese guide assisting the three Americans, was picked up by Chinese authorities. His fate is unknown.
The Awl pointed me to a scathing take-down by Cintra Wilson in The New York Times about JC Penney in New York.In the comments section, I added an update:
Playing to the Pageview
with (few) apologies to Cintra Wilson
The New York Times has broken free of its addiction to pulp-based distribution methods to invade the rest of the world’s internet, and the most frequent question on the literate world’s collective lips seems to be: Why?
Why would this perennially respected newspaper bother to reanimate itself across America — the dumbest, most knee-jerk population in any first world nation — during a hair-raising economic downturn, without taking the opportunity to vigorously rebrand itself? Why would this pompous Elite upper-crust entity waddle into America in its banker’s collars and Columbia MAs without even bothering to update its entrenched spite for this very population?
The New York Times has always trafficked in journalism that isn’t quite up to The Economist standards. It was never “all the news that’s fit to print” so much as “all the news that our connections deep within the American Kleptocracy have deemed fit to print and some that isn’t because it’s been made up by overly-ambitious reports more interested in personal fame than true journalism.”
But things, perhaps, have changed.
“If McKinsey and Mr. Townsend can figure out how to maintain the majesty of a brand like Vogue, while also reining in editorial costs (photo shoots, models, hair and makeup, clothing allowances for Anna, and so on), then they’ll feel they can effectively accomplish that for other brands, a source said.”
- New York Observer looks at attemts to cut costs at Vogue
“In effect, Mr. Obama says he can cut bloated Medicare payments to inefficient health care providers without adversely affecting any beneficiaries. Many doctors are dubious.”
- New York Times looks at attempts to cut costs in Medicare
Abnormally interesting town hall meetings have caused some in Congress to make their August events invitation-only. This tactic, a favorite of the Bush administration, has been bemoaned by the right as cowardice. Senator Byron Dorgan, who puts the D in the Red State of ND, went ahead and held meetings anyway. I went to a few to see what the fuss was all about. (Hint: It’s not about health care.)
Ha! So Matt Drudge finally makes it to the pinnacle of recognition in America by becoming a question on the nightly Pat-Sajac’s-nemesis show “Who Whats to be a Millionaire.” Drudge is even honored by being in the $4,000 early “easy,” everyone-should-know-this round of questions… you know, where they put Star Wars shit and sayings like “Early _____ gets the worm”: 1. Alligator 2. Fish 3. Mastodon 4. Bird.
And Matt is PISSED; the woman has NO IDEA! She has to phone Skype that opaque Utah Mormon genius who won Jeopardy! and then spun that fame off into a job helping the mentally challenged on lesser shows. And he was only “pretty sure.”
I wish I had those sirens to put on this because, ha, sirens… on a blog!
Ha! “Kevin”
The Americans for Prosperity Patients First bus rock-n-rolled into town on Tuesday, just before the Tea Party got underway. As you can see from the photo, they need a little help with understanding parking laws.
400 military draft cards burned in coordinated protests in New York City and in Washington, D.C.
- February 12, 1947
National Coordinating Committee to End the War in Vietnam hosts first public burning of a draft card.
- October 15, 1965
“A small but fractious rebellion is brewing against AARP, the advocacy group for older Americans. The A.S.A. is appealing directly to disaffected AARP members, urging them to cut or tear up their AARP cards… Many of the defectors have destroyed their AARP cards..”
- A Mini-Mutiny at AARP Over Health Care, New York Times, Aug. 2009
Remember when Deadspin got very self-righteous about, you know, a naked woman being exploited. And while this case is quite different because the couple willfully taped themselves, it’s arguable that the video got online without their approval.
I can see Gawker editors trying to figure out how to cross-promote this thing on Deadspin to an audience that could not give two shits less about naked Grey’s Anatomy stars. How about we post the link under a story ostensibly about how we’re sorry about the slow server, because, you know, SEX TAPE!
Bravo gentlemen.
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