November 4, 2008 • 2:35 pm
(9:15:34 AM) joe: took me an hour to find the polling place — literally one block over from my house
(9:15:41 AM) Laura: ugh
(9:16:44 AM) joe: well, it’s mostly because I’m retarded, kind of because it was in some stoner’s basement but also because it was on oakland square, which is adjacent to oakland place, oakland avenue and oakland way. in oakland. so i blame pittsburgh ultimately
(9:16:52 AM) Laura: hahah
(9:17:35 AM) joe: srsly, the electronic voting machine was under a Bob Marley black light poster
(9:18:26 AM) Laura: AHHHHHHHHHHHHH
(9:18:32 AM) joe: ok, I made that part up
(9:18:35 AM) Laura: you gotta vote mon
Filed under: politics, presidential election , black light poster, bob marley, laura, oakland, Pittsburgh, polling place
October 29, 2008 • 1:04 am
I wish I had a good caption for this one!
Damon Albarn once said to me (and when I need advice I always go to former members of Blur), “if someone is [mentally ill], he’s not open to ridicule.” However, I am going to have to plead special cause when discussing someone who could be (but won’t be, thank God) perilously close to the Presidency. Last Friday, Sarah Palin’s “Rolling Blunder Revue” made a whistle stop in my fair city, with all the venom, ignorance and just plain carryin’ on we expect at these sorts of things. If this event was notable for anything (aside from the fact that it happened to coincide with the sick and disturbed Ashley Todd’s self mutilation, also a Pittsburgh dateline) it was as the occasion of the sassy gov’s most recent bon mot:
And where does a lot of that earmark money end up? It goes to projects having little or nothing to do with the public good — things like fruit fly research in… Paris, France…
As we all know, politicians do their best to keep sound, reasoned arguments and level-headed thinking out of political races. And to a lot of people, the fruit fly gaffe seemed like no big deal (that is, it wouldn’t necessarily occur to many people how lame and misinformed this comment really is). Unfortunately, Palin is now a VP contender, and as such she will and should be held to higher standards (such as knowing the importance of the fruit fly in scientific research).
As my man Christopher Hitchens points out:
[The Republican Party this year] has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. Those who despise science and learning are not anti-elitist. They are morally and intellectually slothful people who are secretly envious of the educated and the cultured. And those who prate of spiritual warfare and demons are not just “people of faith” but theocratic bullies.
Zing!
But don’t take my word for it… you can check out the article: here.
Filed under: politics, presidential election , Ashley Todd, Blur, Christopher Hitchens, Damon Albarn, Pittsburgh, Sarah Palin
