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The World, Too, Is Bipolar

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6:40 PM on Fri May 9 2008
By mcarpentier
2,347 views, 55 comments

Latest by alysbrangwin: @distractedbyshinyobjects: The trouble with this statement is that it will be difficult for the underclass the most. These are the people who have been forced out of gentrified downtown districts, the ones with long commutes because there is no affordable more »

crappy hour

Sometimes, Ignorance Is Bliss

Oh, Moe, what have you done to us? While you were (are?) sleeping the UN decided to halt aid to Burma because the junta just keeps taking it at gunpoint to sell it; Beirut has been at least partially taken over by Hezbollah; there's just too much smack to talk about Mark Penn to even begin to contemplate adding links and, frankly, I'm just a little sick of talking about the primaries. So the Windy's Attackerman and I, in all my morning Glamocratic splendor, take on things we probably should've ignored, like the primaries, Russian goosestepping, Spencer's favorite strip club in all of Canada and Arianna Huffington's secrets about John McCain. More »

10:00 AM on Fri May 9 2008
By mcarpentier
2,716 views, 156 comments

Latest by bria: @LinaLamont: [en.wikipedia.org] Folklore scholars regard the theory as baseless for several reasons: 1. the late appearance of the explanation means that it has no tradition, only the value of its content; 2. the facts described do not fit especially well at more »

news roundup

The "And You Thought Yesterday Was Bad" Edition

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6:30 PM on Thu May 8 2008
By mcarpentier
2,765 views, 97 comments

Latest by irishan0: Ugh, that euphoria thing made me wince on the train this morning. Some people in this world... more »

jezenomics

American Women Are Gaining (Low Wage, Dead End) Jobs As Economy Falters

When it comes to American women and the potential and/or already-existing recession, there's good news, and there's bad news. The good news, according to Business Week: American women aged 20 and up gained nearly 300,000 jobs from November to April, while American men in the same age demographic lost nearly 700,000 jobs in that time period. In addition, in the private sector, the employment level for women went from 58.1% to 58.3%. Now the bad news! The jobs these women are getting aren't particularly good ones. Eileen Appelbaum, director of Rutgers University's Center for Women & Work, tells BW, "We had an expansion of jobs for home health aides, retail clerks, child-care workers. They're low-wage, they're dead-end, and they don't have any benefits." In addition, the pay gap is widening: the past year, median weekly earnings for men rose 4.6%, while it only grew 3.1% for women. Over 75% of those making over $100,000 are men, BW notes, even though women are graduating from college at higher rates. So what does this mean for the economy as a whole? More »

9:30 AM on Thu May 8 2008
By Jessica
2,580 views, 122 comments

crappy hour

Hillary Wins Another Primary!

Done and done and done and yup, even the Wall Street Journal thinks done. Hillary officially halted her frenzied schedule of telling the cable newsiverse how Good she feels and what a Good Time she's having and how Good it feels to be taking policy advice from Joe Sixpack etc. etc. And how did Obama do it? And how did Peggy Noonan know?? We'd rather talk about Burma and Putin Jr. and the insane San Diego fraternity coke bust, but Megan and I will try to talk "delegate math" and the surreal CNN comment that gave us both inexplicable sex dreams after the jump. More »

10:00 AM on Wed May 7 2008
By Moe
8,067 views, 374 comments

Latest by JNOV: @SinisterRouge: Wow - I have love for Clark, but he's been kind of whiny of late. I dunno. more »

crappy hour

Barack Obama Doesn't Look Too Psyched About That Beer

Fifty thousand people are dead or close to it in Burma, and Barack Obama can state unequivocally that he does not drink designer beer. Seventy five percent of American adults will at some point be impoverished. The average American car owner really must save $30 this summer. Chris Hitchens believes Barack Obama may be pussy-whipped. Ellen Page believes Burmese dictator Than Shwe is a modern Hitler. And when tomorrow comes, Terry McAuliffe believes everyone will be saying that Hillary Clinton did better than they thought she was going to do in both the North Carolina and Indiana primaries tonight. Now there's a statement Glamocracy Megan and I can get behind! After the jump, an unusually hip-hop laden edition of Crappy Hour. More »

10:00 AM on Tue May 6 2008
By Moe
6,797 views, 375 comments

Latest by mowglicub: Never trust a man that only drinks one beer. And what will the WhiteHouse taps contain? We all know they already have PBR ;-) more »

news roundup

Laura Bush Talks Myanmar, Marriage

  • Laura Bush gave a speech about Burma a.k.a. Myanmar and disaster preparedness and Jenna's wedding. Her lipstick was very well-applied. More than 10,000 people may die as a result of the cyclone. Harry built a limestone altar in Texas especially for the wedding. It will be "permanent" in contrast to many of the structures in Myanmar, where limestone and most other things are in short supply. The ruling junta is holding a referendum this weekend to solidify its control of their dirt- poor, isolated disaster zone and I guess this means they win. Governments that are more efficient when it comes to killing citizens than warning about floods always win in the short term. And also the medium term. [Huffington Post]
  • Hey, speaking of nuptials/Third World personalities! Mariane Pearl might be Angelina Jolie's maid of honor. [Times Of India]
  • The primary was so ugly, John and Cindy McCain couldn't bring themselves to vote for a candidate in 2000. [Huffington Post]
  • Kind of similar situation with John and Elizabeth Edwards and Hillary and Obama. [TPM]
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7:30 PM on Mon May 5 2008
By Moe
1,998 views, 81 comments

Latest by TheFormerJuneBronson: @FattyCatty: Yes, very, especially since they're running those ads about the Navy's assistance after the tsunami nine months before Katrina. He's got np excuse for that, just none. more »

crappy hour

Future VP Bobby Jindal's College Girlfriend Possessed By Satan? Or Just Horny?

Meet Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal! He's the frontrunner to be the running mate to the presidential candidate closest to death, so it will surely please you to know that, in his brief 36-year life, he has endured many difficult things, including the presence of SATAN HIMSELF. Well, it was either Satan, or a melodramatic college junior whose desire to fuck him made him worry he was gay or something. But we're going to go with Satan, since he's running for vice president, and what better proof that the Devil Remains At Large than the current holder of the vice presidency? That said Bobby's story, written about an episode that took place while he was a rather Jesus-y undergrad at Brown University, sounds a little too much like an emotionally unavailable twentysomething dude's account of a relationship with girl with "drama" to be quite convincing.Watch Glamocracy Megan and I parse Bobby Jindal's satanic verses — and the gas tax holiday bullshit! — after the jump. Seriously, it is so much awesomer than Kucinich with the UFO. More »

10:00 AM on Mon May 5 2008
By Moe
10,885 views, 124 comments

Latest by kppontrucking: @TaraIncognita: Lol, I'm glad I'm not the only one who has noticed this. Does the Republican Party have some sort of binding contract stating that Republican wives have to have hairspray at all times and wear frilly suits in public? more »

crappy hour

Did Hillary's Appearance On O'Reilly Actually Make Me Like Her More?

Fox is the only news channel that gets any audio on my cable box. This is something, like the interminable nature of this campaign, I generally regard as a negative. But yesterday I had a revelation. See, Hillary Clinton just went on Bill O'Reilly, and when they aren't rerunning clips of the really boring interview, the Fox News talking heads are creaming their pants over how well she's held up, what a "fighter" she is, etc. And it hit me: has Hillary Clinton's stubborn refusal to drop out maybe been good for America? All the phony, cynical and self-serving praise she's had heaped upon her pantsuited self from Rush and Ann and the Weekly Standard and the "Fair And Balanced" regime has started, ever so gradually, to convert into something genuine: respect. Anyway, The Indianapolis Star just endorsed Hillary, a Baptist minister got ushered out by Secret Service for asking John McCain if he really called his wife a "cunt", and Barack Obama drank shit beer at a VFW and the whole thing has lasted so long it's starting to feel like life itself, and Megan and I decided to look at it on the beer-glass half-full side today. More »

10:30 AM on Fri May 2 2008
By Moe
7,441 views, 290 comments

Latest by dylpickle: Used to be a Hillary supporter but after all her negative campaigning I've changed my mind about her. She's not a fighter but just a street savy political opportunist who will say anything to get elected. Her description more »

state of the unions

Cindy McCain's Marriage Is Not Exactly A 'Straight Talk Express'

Potential First Lady/onetime pill-popper Cindy McCain hit up Leno last night, appearing elegant in a canary-yellow pantsuit (shades of Hillary?) and eager to talk about her husband's candidacy, including concern over his advanced age and her family's reaction to his repeated presidential run. Cindy was agreeable enough, but over the course of the 12-minute interview (quite long for Leno) we noticed a theme began emerging: that of deceit in the McCain marriage. From lying about her age, taking pilot lessons and drug use, Cindy has quite the chronicle of tall tales! Clip above.

3:30 PM on Thu May 1 2008
By Anna
6,465 views, 78 comments

Latest by OfficeMaxie: Sure she lied about her age, but 4 years older? Who does that?? Lying lair is lying again. more »

news roundup

Let's Be Honest Barry; He Kept On Playing Games And The Loving Was Not The Same

  • Barack Obama rejected/denounced his old friend Jeremiah Wright on television today on the advice of certain wise commenters and also prominent columnists and locking in a critical majority of my family members. Watching it was less fun than watching him shake the dirt off his shoulder but as Jigga would say "so necessary." [Wonkette]
  • So the question remains: why the fuck did Jeremiah Wright give all those damaging, yammering unyielding undermining speeches? Newt Gingrich thinks he's just jealous. [ABC News]
  • Though maybe he was just testing God? [Chicago Tribune]
  • And Barack Obama finally de-friended him...only after consulting some cynical pollsters? Take it from a Republican. [JohnLocke.org]
  • An African-American studies professor from a long line of Mormons wishes Mitt Romney was around so everyone else could be reminded how tame black liberation theology is next to some of the fun ideas Joseph Smith had. [TheRoot]
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5:30 PM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Moe
2,048 views, 79 comments

Latest by jdsoda: @Parasol at 11:27 PM on 04/29/08: just catching up on the posts from last night --and I wanted to relate about what you said: "You all are so clever and quick and witty that I can rarely keep up..." --this more »

Loose Lips Nicole Richie and Joel Madden: voting for Obama. "He is a good man, he is cool... He is just a great person overall," Madden told Us. But can they override the influence of the Montag-endorsed McCain? • Model and Sylvester Stallone ex Angie Everhart was arrested and slapped with a DUI in the early hours of last Thursday. She was released later on $15,000 worth of bail. • Kim Cattrall took her sweet time in agreeing to do the Sex and the City movie because they didn't offer her enough dough. "I never expected to be paid what Sarah was being paid. But I felt that the offer was not worthy of what the three of us had contributed. And I spoke up about it. I feel like I stuck my neck out. I fought. I don't ever want to be on a set where I feel undervalued." [Us, TMZ, I'm Not Obsessed]

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The Obama Attack Ad Too "Extreme" For John McCain!

  • "They're not listening to me because they're out of touch with reality and the Republican Party. We are the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Ronald Reagan and this kind of campaigning is unacceptable. I've done everything that I can to repudiate and to see that this kind of campaigning does not continue." That's the seventysomething presumptive nominee for the Republican presidential candidate, who may just be sufficiently out of touch with the party of Strom Thurmond, Tom DeLay and Dick Cheney to win the election, on the not-so-subtle Obama attack ad you can watch after the jump. [Reuters]
  • And you fucking know what? We'll be bombing Iran and the hedge funds will have figured out how to directly short-sell human life but at least we will have a president who wants to put an end to this shit. [WSJ]
  • Here's an inspiring story for those of you who have ever been fired and worry you'll never get another job in this economy (what with consumer confidence at a 26-year-low) because you have a criminal record and/or lost your last company $7 billion or something like that: Jerome Kerviel got a job! [WSJ]
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6:40 PM on Fri Apr 25 2008
By Moe
2,833 views, 21 comments

Latest by Gin*: that ad is ridiculous, lol. I'm with Phonte on Obama (yay, blogs!) more »

news roundup

"And By The Way, Guess Who Goes To His Church, Hint, Hint, Hint?"

  • Rev. Jeremiah Wright is going on PBS tomorrow night to reflect on his newfound fame. "I think they wanted to communicate that I am unpatriotic, that I am un-American, that I am filled with hate speech, that I have a cult at Trinity United Church of Christ. And by the way, guess who goes to his church, hint, hint, hint?" [NYT]
  • OMG who's winning in Indiana???? Check this space back at 11 p.m. for the results of the very latest poll. [Indianapolis Star]
  • Speaking of Indiana, its local media went all the way to the Evansville Abercrombie to solve the mystery of the Aberdudes. Reportedly, they're neither gay nor did they plan their outfits that way. Times like this you really wish Toqueville was around but maybe we'll be in shape to fully fathom that tomorrow. [NYT]
  • John McCain made the outlandishly courageous decision to distance himself from the Bush Administration with regards to its handling of Katrina. [Wash Post]
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6:30 PM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Moe
2,018 views, 57 comments

Latest by s_crewe: The Clintons are notoriously carnivorous campaigners and some of their tactics are downright Rovian. I find it gross, but maybe that is what we need in general. I'm an huge Obama supporter and I deplore Swift-boating, lying, more »

partisan problems

Meet Lilly Ledbetter. She's A Good Reason To Vote Against John McCain

Lilly Ledbetter, pictured here with Hillary Clinton yesterday, got totally screwed by the Supreme Court. And now she's being screwed by the Senate. You see, Lilly was a supervisor for an Alabama Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company. She was being paid less than every single one of the male supervisors: 15% less than the lowest paid male supervisors and 40% less than the highest paid. Lilly had no idea that she was being stiffed by her bosses, because in her contract she had agreed not to discuss her salary with anyone outside of her family. An anonymous coworker slipped her a note, telling her she was being cheated, and so Lilly decided to sue Goodyear for the discrimination. A lower court awarded Ledbetter $3.8 million, but the Supreme Court overturned the decision — because she didn't file the claim within 180 days of her first unfair paycheck (though there was absolutely no way she could have known she was making less at that point). More »

5:00 PM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Jessica
8,022 views, 147 comments

Latest by satori: @SinisterRouge: thank you, you succinctly stated what I wanted to say. :) outsiders don't get elected. one has to work within the system to get elected and into a position to effect change. more »

crappy hour

PA. Kids Punished For Choosing Obama Over Nothingness

Aw, look at the cute boys from Scranton who got suspended for cutting class to see Obama! They missed a quiz on The Stranger. "Existentialism is dead," one said. If only we could say the same for killing the Arabs, kids! So yeah, we really, really wanted to play hooky today. It's hot in my house and most of the "news" today consists of different ways of saying "Barack Obama is fucked and can't win and has alienated every typical white person he has ever encountered blah blah, blah blah and oh yeah Eliot Spitzer fucks whores; stop me before I kill my laptop without remorse etc." So yeah, Megan and I decided to talk instead about Syria and North Korea and all the other places we could totally obliterate, plus who bought the securities backed by mortgages in Gaza, but we don't really find any answers. Click or don't click, it doesn't really matter. More »

10:00 AM on Thu Apr 24 2008
By Moe
2,664 views, 113 comments

Latest by chatterboxwriting: @SarahMC: Do you still live in Scranton? I work near Wilkes-Barre. more »

crappy hour

Would It Kill These Candidates To Eat A Frickin Cheesesteak?

Readers, this campaign season we've borne witness to many things. The rebirth of the word "trollop" and Ann Coulter endorsing Hillary...Geraldine Ferrarro fell victim to racism, and now Bill Clinton telling us Obama used their vast race card conspiracy against him too; he's got memos to prove it. We've learned about Obama's brother in China and Hillary's brothers from Retardville. We've watched Hillary throw back shots like a drunk sorority girl and promise to totally obliterate Iran like a drunk frat guy. We've seen Barack Obama reference Faulkner, Marx and Jay-Z like some consciousness-raising enlightened hip-hop dude who gets laid way too often for you to trust him entirely. But readers, for six weeks we have been stuck in this state, a state so authentically lowbrow it gets away with calling its homeless shelters overnight cafes, and somehow we have yet to see a presidential candidate eat a fucking cheesesteak. So Megan and I are off to do that now (oh, yum) and vote, but not before gracing you with this morning's riveting IM exchange. More »

10:00 AM on Tue Apr 22 2008
By Moe
5,948 views, 452 comments

Latest by lawchic: You know what. I am really sick of Clinton and this whole race card ish. That big bad devious memo that he was talking about, it contained comments, numerous comments, from Hillary's supporters insinuating or mentioning race. more »

crappy hour

We're Headed To Philly Tonight!

Megan and I are convening in Murderdelphia tonight for tomorrow's Pennsylvania primary! This morning a seven-alarm fire reminded everyone once more there used to be an economy there. Now there are too many vacant buildings and not enough crackheads to fill them. Five murders happened over the weekend in Philly. Chelsea Clinton submitted her ass to a fag hag gang grope. Michael Moore endorsed Barack Obama. The railroad industry made a comeback. The Pope made some speeches. Jeremiah Wright is going on TV. Some Republican told other Republicans to forget Reagan. Jimmy Carter won't make it so easy on you! Obama said he thought John McCain would be better than Bush. (Maybe because the Walnuts' stubborn refusal to wear a flag pin dovetails with his own 1960s radicalism?) And number one Jezecrush Thomas Frank got a weekly column in the Wall Street Journal. "The landmark political fact of our time is the replacement of our middle-class republic by a plutocracy," he wrote. "If some candidate has a scheme to reverse this trend, they've got my vote, whether they prefer Courvoisier or beer bongs spiked with cough syrup." There's a thought to drank to! His new book is called The Wrecking Crew. More »

10:00 AM on Mon Apr 21 2008
By Moe
2,709 views, 139 comments

Latest by whyknot: @westvillagegirl: well you know in this town we hold no one's past against them. dillinger obv. has nothing on what's coming with kat vs braak! srsly, watch yourself in the hood, westie - jezebel can't spare any chicagoans. more »