Two big budget alien-invasion movies came out earlier this year. Skyline came out first and did poorly at the box office, being roundly panned by critics. Battle: Los Angeles came out later and did gangbuster business at the box office, although it too was roundly panned. Both movies focus on Los Angeles (what a surprise [...]
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It's so easy to resist infringements on our rights from the safety of a cushy chair and a laptop, eh? I ran into this story on Wired today and was encouraged by 21-year-old Aaron Tobey’s sense of resolve. Honestly, I am encouraged by any ordinary person in the U.S. who does not appear to [...] Another silly piece of legislation that our favorite silly Senator has up her sleeve: I want to let you know about the Taxpayer Fairness Act (S.2994), which Senator Jim Webb (D-VA) and I recently introduced in the Senate. Our bill would impose a tax on large bonuses paid by Wall Street banks and other firms [...] On my way down the escalator at the Pentagon City Metro, I passed a mini-billboard with three sexy jets flying toward me. In bold letters right above them was this phrase: "Peace through strength. Lots of strength." Thank you, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, for fucking everything up. Somewhere over the last fifteen or so years — around the time that queers decided that they didn’t want to be different anymore, that they wanted to be just like the heterosexual Joneses — American servicemen decided that manscaping was some sort of [...] I hate to disappoint my American friends, but you won’t like New Zealand because they aren’t really interested in military porn. They are savages, those kiwis. They think about things like peacefully coexisting with their neighbors, avoiding conflicts with folk who have nothing at all to do with their affairs. Obviously, they have a problem, [...] The result of charities is great work for a lot of communities and individuals. This post does not question that. What it questions are the abhorrent means by which charities raise their monies, most notably the perversion and, in some cases, commandeering of institutions that have little if anything to do with charity work. Charities [...] The New York Times (sigh) has posted a much-blogged, much-read article about something called — don’t laugh — thirdhand smoke. In short, smokers who aren’t actually smoking at the moment carry molecules of nasty toxins like hydrogen cyanide and arsenic. Oh, my god, arsenic, it’s so famously poisonous, don’t you know? These molecules can transfer [...] Today was my last day in Branson, MO (trust me, 2 days is enough). As my previous post tries to demonstrate, it was, if nothing else, a superior sociological quickie. Grandma sent me off in style. After a visit to Wal-Mart, she took me to lunch at Shoney’s, where she splurged for the $7.99 lunch [...] I’m sitting in my grandmother’s living room in Branson, MO, trying to stay awake during my usual mid-afternoon nap slump. Grandma is napping in stereo; she’s directing people to do her bidding, something to do with shoes, I’m trying not to listen lest I hear something scandalous from her 85 years of memories. [...] |
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