From the monthly archives:
May 2011
This morning, Leslie complained that the dude cast to play Gale in the Hunger Games looks really… “big”. Gale isn’t buff and beefy! In our eyes anyway, he’s lanky and brooding. Then we further complained about how the boy heros in Twilight are either man-like or all hunked-out. Melissa told me once that she was […]
This nation has a sketchy history of dealing with the rights of its workers. Some might say, brutal acts of aggression against American workers have been a cornerstone of our Democracy! Unlike better known bellwethers of the labor movement like the 1911 Triangle Factory fire, and the Writers Guild Strike of 2008, the battle of Blair […]
For those of you who have not read the Hunger Games trilogy, or fallen prey to the crime of the movie casting rollout, skip ahead, nothing for you here. Cinna is the new Capitol recruit assigned to style the Tribute from the lowly District 12, the gifted artist who creates the costumes that give advantage […]
Scott Adams defends his self-congratulatory commenting and weighs in on the Obama chimp controversy. Make it stop. From Salon, April 19, 2011, by By Mary Elizabeth Williams AP/Jose Sanchez When commenters on MetaFilter started ragging on a recent Wall Street Journal story by Scott Adams, the Dilbert creator and sexist jackass who last month opined that “women are treated […]
In TOMORROW’S election, well-funded, well-connected Jewish Democrat Scott Svonkin faces off against poorly-financed Tea Party-ite and acknowledged social conservative, Lydia Gutierrez. You’d think that the race for a vacant seat on the Los Angeles Community College Board on the ballot TOMORROW would be a slam dunk for the standing Svonkin. But, record low voter turnout (In […]
Michigan’s own Scrooge McDuck, lumber baron Wellington Burt, wasn’t stupid – he knew he couldn’t take his millions with him to the grave! But he could torture his descendants for generations, from behind the 15 foot high marble walls of the mausoleum where he lay entombed! Once among America’s eight wealthiest men, Burt left explicit […]