In an otherwise informative report on female sex tourism in Senega (”Moussa flipped through a stack of photos. In one image, an overweight, Spanish woman — his first “girlfriend” — has her arms around his small frame. She gave him $500, he said, before heading home.”) the above photo and caption appeared. “Like these two?” Is it just me or is that a wildly careless caption? I don;t think it’s racist or anything, just… “Like these two?” WTF?
Having worked on a campaign, I can attest to the fact that running for governor is unique. In a single state you have to be all things to all people, the whiny yuppies, the racist hicks and the old people… good god, the old people. Yet you have to be hyper-local. Exactly how do you walk this tightrope with your campaign messaging is a delicate business, balancing being meaningful to one group without offending anyone. How exactly does one do this? Tom Emmer is running for governor of Minnesota and, I gotta’ say, this kid is going places. Below, from my inbox:
The Daily Show has always been forward thinking when it comes to Internet dissemination of its show. From the high-speed-internet beginning, it has made itself available, in full, on demand at its website. It’s likely they are of the opinion that more attention is good for drawing future viewers.
But… (more…)
Honorable Wisconsin legislator and three-time drunk driver (in one year!) Jeff Wood will spend 45 days in jail. There he will continue to represent the fine residents of whatever hopelessly fucked state district that continues to not call for his resignation. For old time’s sake, let’s watch ole’ Jeffrey get arrested and fall down.
In other sadly unremarkable drunk Wisconsin news:
“Wilhelmson initially denied he had been driving the truck or that he had consumed alcohol, according to the complaint. After the officer pointed out the beer cans scattered about, Wilhelmson eventually admitted to drinking four or five cans of beer during his drive to the Wisconsin Dells.”
Here’s professional liar and self-promoting nincompoop Andrew Breitbart’s Twitter retaliation attempt for last week’s Real America column over at The Awl which pointed out what a bunch of racists Mr. Breitbart hosts at his self-named “news” site Breitbart.com. Let’s look at the ways this is wrong.
First, Andy points out that I am promoting ” ‘Black Monopoly’ board at The Awl.” One would think that Andy, a veteran of both the Drudge and HuffPo, would understand that something posted on abesauer.com, my personal blog (where the “Black Monopoly” game was), is not the same as it being posted at The Awl.
Second, he clearly does not understand the dark tenor of the “joke,” that black men are disproportionately incarcerated. Andy probably thinks the satirical Monopoly board in question (above) is racist because displaying it means you want to send all blacks to jail on every space. This mistake is understandable though looking at the readership company Mr. Breitbart keeps at his site:
See, THAT Breitbart reader probably doesn’t get the joke either!
Note that Andy did not respond directly to the piece in question. He didn’t even link to it. Coward. I don’t have $10,000 with which to make a stunt out of it, but I dare him to try and reply anyway. But without anything in it for him, it’s unlikely.
So, which blue-state left-leaning blog will be the first to do a stunt “review” of eating KFC’s Double Down?
You watch Bill Moyers Journal every time it’s on, right? No? Why the fuck not? It is easily the most intelligent, considerate, instructional thing offered up each week by the boob tube. This week Bill’s guests were John Nichols of The Nation and Terry O’Neill of the National Organization of Women.
Nichols was especially dead on:
“Yeah. Win-win pragmatism is the– what we always look for when we say we’re going to do something wrong, right?
And I think the thing to understand here is that, the core of your question’s about politics. How do we do politics in this country. And it’s absolutely true that in the final stages of the House vote on this bill, Nancy Pelosi, who’s proven to be a pretty effective Speaker, had to find about a dozen votes. And she found them in the community of anti-choice, or pro-life, Democrats. Bart Stupak, Marcy Kaptur, and others. And, many of these people who are very liberal. This, you know, it’s an interesting fact. Bart Stupak voted against going to war in Iraq. He’s voted against a lot of these terrible free trade agreements. He’s not the worst guy in the world. He just really opposes abortion.
These compromises are always made. And the most important thing is that we’re here today screaming and yelling about it. And I’ll tell you why. Every bit of social progress in this country has come in what’s best referred to as “reform moment.” A moment when the country is ready to do something on slavery, on child labor, on the horrible construction of our economy during the Great Depression era, on civil rights. There’s always a reform moment…
…there’s always going to be a reactionary force that says, “Don’t do anything.” And then there’s going to be a sort of a moderate force that says, “Well, the country’s ready to make some change, let’s do it.” The essential element, I will argue, and I don’t think it’s so self-focused or self-absorbed, is that it’s always the progressives, the people who say, “This is not going far enough,” who ultimately build on the construct and make it into something worthy of the American experiment.”[Bolding, mine]
Fuck yeah, John. Bill doesn’t allow embedding video, and he’s so good, that doesn’t even annoy me. Anyway, you really should watch the whole thing.
Who else saw this barb during the new Simpsons episode Sunday night (”The Greatest Story Ever Told”)?
Weekend Realted: Would you like to play a game?
Here’s is your single-serving Tumblr of the day:
Only Have Sons ChatRoulette Boobs!
Your move, Good Sense.
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