Pay your taxes already, people.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Creative gay men I love
Truman Capote. Ricky Martin. Tennessee Williams.
And Elton John. He's a genius. With Bernie Taupin, he created ethereal music.
As I listen to cut #2, I think of a dear friend of a dear friend who's fighting for his life tonight.
Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane
I can see the red tail lights heading for Spain
Oh and I can see Daniel waving goodbye
God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes
Oh and I can see Daniel waving goodbye
God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes
'Houston, we've had a problem'
By 1970, Americans were a tad blah about space exploration. After all, we had already landed on the moon.
Apollo 13 caught the country's attention again. On April 13 of that year, the world watched as science geeks brought the crippled ship back to earth with the three crew members alive.
Hero or man?
A blogger notes that Robert E. Lee may not have been all that and a bag of chips.
The great general was at most a man of his time. Otherwise, he never would have lead men into battle to defend a system that enslaved his fellow man. Period.
"What undergirds all of this alleged honoring of the Confederacy, is a kind of ancestor-worship that isn't. The Lost Cause is necromancy--it summons the dead and enslaves them to the need of their vainglorious, self-styled descendants. Its greatest crime is how it denies, even in death, the humanity of the very people it claims to venerate. This isn't about "honoring" the past--it's about an inability to cope with the present."
Pure evil
In the year of our Lord 2010, we still must note time and again that homosexuals and pedophiles are two totally separate groups.
Catholic officials try to equate the two to explain how it is that the church hierarchy has allowed the sexual torture of children.
"Second, Oliver has obviously—somehow—failed to grasp that the priests who molested boys were almost certainly not “homosexual” in any sense that’s relevant to the argument of the piece, because in general 'the adult male who sexually molests young boys is not likely to be homosexual.'”
Monday, April 12, 2010
Hold him accountable
A Slate blogger says legally call the pope on his decades of covering for and protecting violent pedophiles.
"I have never before been accused of taking part in a pogrom or lynching, let alone joining a mob that is led by raped deaf children, but I'm proud to take part in this one."
'Southern discomfort'
The New York Times rarely gets the American South right. Maybe The Grey Lady did this time.
"Whitewashing the (Civil) war is one way for the right — alienated, anxious and angry about the president, health care reform and all manner of threats, mostly imaginary — to express its unease with the Age of Obama, disguising hate as heritage."
"If the slaves are erased from the picture, then what took place between Sumter and Appomattox is not about the fate of human chattel, or a battle between good and evil. It is, instead, more of an ancestral skirmish in the Reagan revolution, a contest between big and small government."
Dixie Carter dies
Over the weekend, the world lost the actress who played Julia Sugarbaker on "Designing Women." Dorothysurrenders.com has a fond remembrance.
DW clips of this Southern spitfire:
Friday, April 9, 2010
I'm sure this will work fine, since teenagers don't have hormones or anything.
A Wisconsin county says pay no attention to those kids in the corner having sex.
"Juneau County District Attorney Scott Southworth last month sent a letter to area school districts warning that health teachers who tell students how to put on a condom or take birth-control pills could face criminal charges."
Dumb-ass diplomat update
Where was that cretin headed when he caused a national crisis on an in-bound flight to Denver International Airport Wednesday night?
The Qatari diplomat who was arrested for sarcastically telling air marshals on a jetliner that he was trying to set his shoes on fire was en route to visit an imprisoned member of al Qaeda at the Supermax prison in Colorado.
Gah. That is some kind of stupid.
10 'fantastic and surreal creatures'
From listverse.com.
All testify with their forms and adaptations that Mr. Darwin was on to something.
Teachers explaining evolution, for example, need only a picture of the listed gecko's tail.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Maddow off the set
A featurette on Rachel Maddow and her partner at home.
Her girlfriend is cute! And blonde. And busty. I could not help but notice. Sue me.
Cretin in the sky
Common sense dictates that if you're a male from Qatar on a commercial flight in the States, you DO NOT sneak a smoke in the bathroom and then joke about setting off a shoe bomb.Homeland Security body-cavity searches grannies from Kentucky before they board planes these days. How arrogant and ignorant must Qatar diplomat Mohammed al Modadi have been to think no one would take him seriously?
An FYI to al Modadi for future flights into Denver International Airport: Military jets can be sent up mighty fast from the several Air Force bases near Denver. So please leave innocent passengers and flight crew members at home if you come this way again.
An FYI to Qatar: I'm thinking maybe you could find folks who aren't dumb asses to be diplomats.
Wednesday, April 7, 2010
Lilith Fair
They're coming to Denver in July. I may sell a kidney and go.
And if I shed a tear, I won't cage it
I won't fear love
Oh, and if I feel a rage, I won't deny it
I won't fear love
Oh, and if I feel a rage, I won't deny it
I won't fear love
One ringy dingy
I kid you not: Lily Tomlin may be the drollest person on the planet. Afterellen.com interviews the lesbian icon.
Shortzzzzz
I'm known on my square as the plaid-short girl. That's how I roll all summer.
These styles are scarier than plaid shorts. Though some do look comfortable.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
Fuck Geno.
How are you dealing with the giant asshole winning another national title?
I'm listening to Amy angst. Join me. Cuts #2 (with Michael Stipe, for extra angst), #5, #11, #22 etc. etc.
Are you on fire, from the years?
What would you give for your kid fears?
I am looking for someone who can take as much as I give
Give back as much as I need
And still have the will to live
Strange fire burns with the motion of love
It's easy for you
You got friends all over the world
I'll be the first to praise the sun
The first to praise to praise the moon
The first to hold the lone coyote
The last to set it free
Soon enough we'll be flying naked
A small commercial airline to charge $45 for a carry-on bag. Meh.
On the other hand, maybe folks will stop packing all their stuff into carry-ons to avoid the checked bag fee. Flights are an hour longer than need be these days from folks manipulating their gigantic carry-ons into and out of overhead bins.
Come out, come out, wherever you are.
Newser lists 10 more celebs who should follow Ricky Martin's lead.
I can handle press-release writing for Queen L's self-outing. Just say the word, woman.
Monday, April 5, 2010
Ursula was hawt. Audrey was not.
One wonders why the Daily Mail expended energy illustrating the obvious: When it comes to cinematic heroines, women like strong waif-like characters and men prefer tenacity with a big dollop of T&A.
I confess to siding the boys. I can tear up at Erin Brockovich's justice-seeking even as I eyeball Julia Roberts' cleavage.
They're cranky, they're on walkers, and they're not gonna take it anymore.
Survey says teabaggers are old, white and ignorant. And incoherent (see pic above).
They want their country back, damn it, the one from 1952 when mothers vacuumed wearing high heels and pearls and assumed the missionary position (only) when their husbands demanded sex.
And oh, yeah. A negro wasn't in the White House.
'Lil' presidents'
Another Life feature on American presidents: free-world leaders as kids.
I pondered to guess the identity of the person pictured in some of these photos.
But not the one of Barack Obama, our only black president. Or the shot of six-month-old Lyndon Johnson, who looks just like a miniature version of the White House man.
Presidential dork
Life magazine strolls pictorially through proof that Obama is kinda sorta a nerd.
I'm disappointed that the mag failed to note the president's penchant for Mom Jeans (see photo at left) as evidence.
I reckon a nerd at the helm is better, any day of the week, than a man who is all hat and no cattle. Just sayin.'
NCAA championship
Butler vs. Duke. My heart pulls for the long-shot Bulldogs against the evil Blue Devil empire.
This guy, though, points up that Duke is not all bad. Having lived on Tobacco Road for two years, I'll attest that Carolina fans can be insufferably sanctimonious, and I admire the chutzpah of Coach K for delivering a hale and hearty "fuck you"--with a Polish-American snarl--to the Dean.
Still, I'll be hoping Butler pulls off a win tonight.
From the article above in defense of the Dukies:
People say they like college basketball because it involves team play, basketball fundamentals, players who actually try hard and play together as a unit. Duke exemplifies that, and then people turn around and say, "Oh, they're a bunch of stuck up white kids. Look at their ostentatious, pretentious 'fundamentals.' Look how they play the game the 'right way.' How arrogant! How odious!
Saturday, April 3, 2010
Friday, April 2, 2010
Forgive me, Lord. For I have sinned.
Yes, I'm a sick puppy for laughing at any of the T-shirts here. My repulsion at the most obnoxious of these does not negate my guilt.
It's Good Friday, for Christ's sake.
'ESPN: The worldwide leader in selling stuff'
Esquire thinks ESPN will successfully push to expand the NCAA basketball tournament to 96 teams.
Under a 96-team format, I could coach a team to the Sweet 24. And we must have a format that guarantees big dogs like the Tar Heels always get in the tourney, no matter their suckiness.
Alas, I think Esquire is on to something. Dollars and those godless Connecticut Yankees at ESPN will out. Get ready to fill out your bracket for May Madness.
The Hays code
Cinema censorship covered more than T&A back in the day (the accompanying photo of Jane Russell's cleavage notwithstanding.)
Mentalfloss.com lists nine movies and shows affected by the Hays code.
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