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Anne Marie Habershaw does not send email. That’s not her job. So it is significant, I believe I am meant to believe, when she sends me an email soliciting money. She doesn’t send emails, but this cause is sooooooo important that she is breaking tradition and sending emails. Maybe she doesn’t send emails because . . . → Read More: More infuriating Obama email fun Your monkey’s messing with that medicine And you’re beat down with the jones (I got the cure–you want it?) I see ya sweating shaking your body’s aching badly Feel the fever in your bones now (Oooooooh sooo sick) Trip trip trip trippin out Just start a count Minutes now to lose the misery (You . . . → Read More: Pop another pill, and leave all your cares behind The Obama administration releases daily photographs of moments in the life of the President and the props people and things surrounding him. We thought it would be a good idea, a fine, wonderful idea, if we took some of those photos and matched them with roughly corresponding, non-photo opportunity images from elsewhere in the . . . → Read More: Meet our new feature: “Thar’s blood on them thar hands!” Is Barack Obama a Christian? a Muslim? an Etruscan vase given life and human form by some forgotten Egyptian deity? Well, whatever. I’m not religious about my atheism, and I have no particular quarrel with religious people other than the ones who show up uninvited on my stoop, and even then I feel no . . . → Read More: “Let he who is without sin,” yadayadayada Quoting from Herr Doctor Professor Bill O’Reilly there. The number of campaign emails arriving here at BTC News world headquarters has been escalating steadily during the past few weeks. Many of them are from Barack Obama et Cie; almost all of those trigger my junk mail filter. I click on one and a button . . . → Read More: “Shut up! Just shut up!” I’m not really going anywhere in particular with this, just some things I’ve been thinking about. I didn’t have a camera when I was living on the beach in Honolulu, which I regret because I knew some seriously photogenic roofless folk, but I’ve had one for a while now and I still don’t have . . . → Read More: Thorsten Veblen hits the streets In our continuing (why is a veteran combat medic delivering pizzas) coverage (how did a guy draw a life sentence for theft) of the Associated Press “Strange News” archives, we bring you the story of one Charles Jones Jr., a homeless man who was discovered living in the basement of a library. Okay, we . . . → Read More: Things you would think one would be curious about, Part III Richard at American Left directs our attention to the unfolding and possibly irremediable economic disaster unfolding in Greece. Quoting liberally from Der Spiegel, he notes that in the wake of European Union-enforced austerity measures “necessitated” by the country’s fleecing at the hands of the international financial industry, nearly 20% of Athens retail shops are . . . → Read More: If you mean increased bankruptcies and suicides, austerity works! I’m sure everyone has heard by now that combat operations in Iraq have ended, witness the exit of the last Stryker brigade from the country. “Stryker”—what was the compelling reason to go with the “y”?** But I digress, and it’s only the second sentence. All but a few of the institutional press outlets are . . . → Read More: Through the looking glass, or, What is this Iraq of which you speak? I got an email from my good friend Barack, and he asked me for my commitment to vote. So I wrote back and said, sure, I’ll vote. I’ll vote for my other good friend, Jerry Brown, and I’ll vote for whatever Green Party candidates are on the ballot, because you guys are malicious idiots. . . . → Read More: Barack Obama asked that I commit to vote. Absolutely, said I. |
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