From the monthly archives:

January 2014

by kara on January 30, 2014

And Jesus spake unto the multitude saying, ‘Frigging losers — It’s your own da*n fault you’re destitute. Now look at our good friend Pontius Pilate over there. He worked hard, played by the rules, and now he’s provincial governor! Be more like HIM!” Blessed are the poor unless they don’t have any money. And the word […]

Actual Elected Official

by kara on January 29, 2014

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LY8trqxjUag Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-KS) Kansas, what were you thinking?

LOL

by kara on January 27, 2014

It takes a completely bifurcated mind to pray to heaven that our country has not fallen this far and, at the same time, hope (with that little guilty hope we all have sometimes) that they actually run a ticket like that just to get the popcorn and revel in the disaster that is the modern […]

In an episode of the show Sex and the City, Miranda and her ex-boyfriend Steve Brady mull over names for their in-utero son. Miranda ponders the classic “Danny”, and Steve suggests a name with familial significance, “Paul”. Ultimately, Miranda opts to name the baby “Brady” – the father’s last name – as an ostensible booby prize […]

New York City, 1950s

by kara on January 21, 2014

by Saul Leiter

Pristine Abandonment

by kara on January 19, 2014

This is too much, I almost can’t take it. I am a sucker for urban archeology, it makes me faint with joy. There’s something chillingly fascinating about an abandoned building and the way it acts as a time capsule for life ways past, or a sit, shuttered and stopped in its tracks in time. I […]

Actual Elected Official

by kara on January 16, 2014

In a congressional district in Northern Virginia, one of the state’s main instigators of culture warfare, state Sen. Richard H. “Dick” Black, is running in the Republican primary to replace longtime GOP moderate Rep. Frank Wolf, who is retiring. Dick thinks that spousal rape should not be a crime. When Virginia voted to allow spouses […]

Hey, hey we’re the Monkees

by kara on January 12, 2014

We all know that there are Mason Dixon lines everywhere, and that there are rednecks everywhere. Anyone who has been to Louisiana or thereabouts knows that it’s lousy with rednecks and that they do all kinds of things: shootin’ things, hunting, fishing, four-wheeling, making moonshine, but also wearing Tommy Hilfiger and Abercrombie and playing golf. Is it […]

by kara on January 10, 2014

Animation Scoop Interview

by kara on January 9, 2014

Chris Christie Deputy Chief of Staff Bridget Kelly (left) NOBODY’S “Deputy Chief of Staff” does what Chris Christie is claiming Bridget Kelly did, the sole action of a rogue, GOP hack. These are traditional, east coast  mainline Republicans. They do what they are told. Anyone from the ranks who rose to GOP Municipal Chair in […]