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Video: Scooping dog crap for votes
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2iC-kVZYo8&hl=en&fs=1] Metaphors about experience aside, there’s got to be a better way to gain Alaskan votes than showing yourself prancing around the backyard with your dogs, scooping up their crap. Politico has this and nine other worst of the worst offerings from this year’s campaign season, including one from another Alaskan who stares at the camera, […]
Elsewhere: Hate is bi-partisan
In case you were starting to think that the fear-mongering haters this election were all of the right-wing-Obama-is-a-Muslim-terrorist variety, some hater in West Hollywood has hung an effigy of Sarah Palin by a noose from his house and engulfed another effigy of the Republican actually running for president (I know, I keep forgetting too) in flames […]
Elsewhere: Pollan talks food policy
Michael Pollan, author of “In Defense of Food” and “Omnivore’s Dilemma,” recently talked to WYNC about what the next president should do about American food policy. Pollan wrote about the subject in a New York Times Magazine piece titled “Farmer In Chief.” Among other things, Pollan discusses rolling back subsidies on corn and soy that […]
An Obama presidency
Desperation about the way the election is going appears to have firmly taken root at Focus on the Family. A fictitious letter from 2012 posted on the organization’s political action Web site takes a look at what the country could look like four years after electing a secret Muslim friend of terrorists to the highest […]
Investment banker in Formaldehyde
British artist Damien Hurst has baffled the art world yet again, this time for fetching 2.3 billion pounds from a work depicting an investment banker in Formaldehyde. The piece has a much shorter title than his famous 1991 shark in Formaldehyde work “The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living.” It’s called…wait […]
Elsewhere: How ‘fail’ became a winner
If you spend any time surfing the Interweb you’ve probably seen how ubiquitous the phrases “fail” and “epic fail” have become in recent years. If so, maybe you too have wondered about the origins of this web-based exercise of schadenfreude (taking pleasure in someone else’s misfortune). Wonder no more. Slate.com has an article that traces the popular […]
Elsewhere: The art of the public confession
Since the public shaming of former presidential candidate and admitted adulterer John Edwards was confirmed a couple months ago, I’ve found myself repeatedly asking the question of why some politicians, or in the case of Edwards, former politicians, have their political careers ruined when they get caught up in a sex scandal and others, like […]
Elsewhere: The water in Florida
Only two years removed from Mark Foley and his infamous erotic instant messages to teenage pages, Florida is making the wrong kind of political headlines again. In a story that is sure to have enough legs to support a dining room table, ABC News has reported that Foley’s successor, the guy who was going to […]