thursday!

Yeah, the Statue of Liberty gives me a giant bonar too.

Labor: one, two, three

Peter King's a racist fzckface: one, two

They were probably in cahoots with the Black Panthers. /rimshot

Four Words: Bill Clinton Sex Tape. Think about it.

Holy CRAP.

Hey, you condescending prick, it isn't that I hate *God*, I hate people like you who use him as a cudgel.

Stephen King is kind of awesome sometimes.

Everyone is delusional.

aka "the Brimley Belt".

The first four minutes of this, before they even get to the interview, is pants-crappingly terrifying.

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Awesome x 2

I cannot imagine how long it took to actually get some of these.

Lovings!! Watch on mute to avoid annoying cover of "Puppy Love".

Kitties: one, two (with lovey bunny omg)

wednesday!

I've been saying for a year or so now: more people will have to suffer and die. (possibly due to starvation following a planned food crisis. Holy sh1t we are evil.) It needs to be in peoples' faces, at their doorstep, for folks to get out there this time. Frankly, I don't entirely blame them for hesitating, since the conservatives have been crying wolf on the collapse of civilization since the 60s, so it's hard to tell if it's *really* time to stand up, but it is.

This is stupid. We don't need taxes on pensions. We need a progressive (not flat) income tax and we need to close loopholes for the rich and big business. Much more efficient and rational method of taxation.

Bonus points if you can help me find info on the Illinois action.

FZCK

Well, yeah. Fascism rising.

And....?

Ethics: one, two, three, four

Throws up hands, goes back to bed.

Let's give Utah the boot.

Previously unseen footage of the Twin Towers attack.

Are you fzcking kidding me? of the Day.

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SUN

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay

Moon Cave!

Almost done! Thank goodness, I'm exhausted.

KITTIES

Baby animals! I want one of each.

tuesday!

I can has prison reform, pls? The system as we're running it now is pretty fzcked.

The budget crisis is a filthy lie.

More Fzcked Economy: one, two, three, four, five, six

This was one of the most maddening things I've seen in a while. And the worst part is her fanbase will consider the appearance a win because (and/or despite the fact that) she didn't actually answer any questions. WTF.

Alan Simpson needs to GTFO of government like TWENTY YEARS AGO. FZCK.

Hot voter disenfranchising action. More here.

Further perspective on Mike Huckabee: pregnancy concern troll.

Delightful. Let's not talk about it, though.

OMG Socialism!

Not on its own, no. Though it's certainly convenient that the only news site that ever gets mentioned in these discussions is the one run by a woman with a funny sounding foreign accent.

WORST Supreme Court Justice EVER.

Bradley Manning: one, two, three

Wisconsin: one, two, three, four, five

the War on Education: one, two, three

I love the crap out of this song.

Gorgeous short piece on marketing-borne misery. Some semi-related business here.

UGH

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Hey, this is fun for a minute.

"...wish I was up in that asz." AWWWW.

"Laborier notes that Germans will sometimes get naked in public without intent."

I have not watched this in full but Buckminster Fuller was an interesting dude.

Okay, "Shut up, Crime!" is great.

Tiny thing with a tiny umbrella.

monday!

So apparently I'm never going to work again. Vigilante squad? Who's with me?

We are torturing an American citizen to elicit a false confession.

Adorable.

I feel so safe. ALSO.

CNN: are you fzcking kidding me? NYT, same question.

Y'know who this guy reminds me of? Jesus.

Bigot FAIL. More hot, red-faced bigot action here.

Yet another example of how we do absolutely everything backwards. Also.

Grab a hanky and watch this.

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Two things: 1.) Graham Evans is a b1tchin rock star from Mars, and 2.) I wouldn't be at all surprised if activity like that actually helps him concentrate on oral arguments. I've found, if I'm listening to a podcast (especially if it's challenging, like Majority Report, and it makes me think about things and distracts me from focused listening), it's easier for me to concentrate if I play Spider Solitaire or Mah Jong Titans. Is that a common thing, or do I need to score some Adderall?

Oh Wonkette, I love you so.

Tom is SO HAPPY.

#winning

A special Monday LOL for Pat.

thursday!

Two Things: 1.) This is honest-to-goodness terrifying, and 2.) Presumably a good bit of the optometry lobby money came from the optical chains like For Eyes and Pearle Vision, but I wonder how much might've flowed from Walmart's coffers as well, since they also offer in-house optometry services and probably want a bigger piece of the eye market. Also, thinking about "the eye market" makes me srsly queasy.

Or, municipalities could actually PAY PEOPLE TO WORK. I am all for volunteerism in general, but damn that is stupid and awful all over.

This does very little to abate my general level of paranoia.

Sooo incredibly disappointed in Chris Dodd.

Holy crap, SCOTUS is not-useless for a minute.

Kill the Poor: one, two, three, four, five, six (MUST READ...companion video here)

Koch Overdose: one, two, three, four, five, SIX

LIES

I can't wait until they come out with Dr. Pepper Black or something. Morons.

The global gag rule is a giant bunch of bullsh1t and should never, ever be reinstated. It kills women, full stop. Related: B Universe Alert!

Xtian FAIL.

Coconut oil is, in fact, amazing.

This is a REALLY good point about pay for performance that I hadn't considered before. Well said.

I love this and I'm going to write to the relevant Chicago folks to get a similar rule here. Don't really have an opinion yet on this, though. I'm a bit more concerned about the gun owners without ID cards, frankly, and that's a whole other problem.

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FZCKSAW!!!

Well, yeah. Nicely done font work as well.

Random Tumblr memes give me great joy.

Michael Caine is not interested in mincing words.

Okay, so this one time, a couple of years back, Tom and I went to the Kmart by our old apartment, right around this time of year (meaning right before Easter) and they had obviously selected a random employee, who happened to be a surly-faced Latina teenager with a sparkly nose piercing, to wear a fuzzy pink bunny suit to greet customers at the door and hand out sales flyers. Needless to say, Saddest Bunny Evar. Anyway, this reminded me of that.

wednesday!

I'm sure these are flying under the radar in states beyond Wisconsin, too. The impact of some of those things are staggering--the 2/3 majority required for tax increases is the same thing that's currently fzcking California. Number #3 is particularly mindblowing as well. At what point do Dems start campaigning on the platform of "The GOP Wants to Kill You"?

Anonymous: one, two

This is parody. This is not.

Danny Glover is not too old for this sh1t.

Nothing to see here, citizens.

YES, this pls.

The Interregnum.

Bernie Madoff: victim of circumstance. Pardon me as I vomit.

The GOP is trying to destroy jobs to win the 2012 electoral math.

Seems fair to me. /eyeroll

Or we could feed and educate poor people: one, two, three

headdesk: one, two

I want to be a bureaucrat. Requisition me a beat!

Yeah. Chicago needs a LOT of work. And Illinois in general, this is freaking ridiculous.

Glenn Beck knows what's best for you.

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Fzck Yes.

This is sort of lovely and heartwarming.

SIGH. Charlie Sheen: one, two

PFFT. Isn't Pink Floyd the better comparison anyway?

YES

At what point do we get to start calling these guys a-holes for wasting huge amounts of food for no good reason? Srsly.

Okay, I understand where the Paula Deen Riding Flying Butter thing came from now, and yet, I have so many more questions.

I love Tom Hanks.

OMG Nerdgasm.

tuesday!

Hey Fzckheads, I don't want my tax dollars supporting THIS. How 'bout we make that happen?

WHAT THE FZCK.

Winning the future with dumb, malnourished children.

Hey, I like $122 million.

Fzcked healthcare. Requiring that radiological techs get certified sounds an awful lot like commie pinko regulation, though. Much better to have to make a consumer decision based on irradiated scrotum statistics.

So it's a like a Scared Straight kind of thing, right? RIGHT?

Labor: one, two (do not want), three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine

Hey, Keith Olbermann has a blog!

I know we're all decidedly not-caring about Charlie Sheen, but this is a good point. (Though the Today Show interviews are like whoa. That thing about him being bitchin' like a rockstar from Mars? Awesome.)

Mmm, Christlike.

Yay...?

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GUNS

/approve

Apparently this is a theme this week.

Kitteh!

lolz

Baby Sloth! Who wants to go on a field trip to Lincoln Park Zoo?