• Politics, Schmolitics

    Love That Smirking Chimp

    In res Pontifex Maximus et Chimpulus Bushii: This unctuous moralizing about family life and sexuality is pretty rich coming from a gang that has presided over the most widespread, elaborately concealed child abuse scandal in the history of religion. But then, rank hypocrisy has never been a bar to militant self-righteousness. Witness John Paul’s fellow public scold in Washington. Not content with the pope’s merely rhetorical flourishes, Bush takes a more pre-emptive approach to inconvenient women — condemning thousands of them to gruesome, entirely preventable deaths with a simple stroke of his pen. Now that is a mighty thundering from…

  • Childfreedom

    Baby Eating Contests Galore

    As per Wonkette: Affleck and Bush Go Head to Head. She calls photos of pols and wonks holding up young sproggen “baby-eating contests.” Makes sense. However, we childfree types have been eating babies for years. And trading recipes. Ah, the good old days, I remember reading that when it was fresh and new.

  • Hot Off The Presses

    Kook Or Consequences?

    A California lawyer has filed a potential class action lawsuit against the internet search company Yahoo. Stephen Galton says he was subject to a “barrage of harassing, defamatory and abusive messages” from anonymous users on a Yahoo message board. Let’s see – is this guy nuts for attempting to take on trolls and actually sue them, rather than threatening to do so as so many have done before? Being threatened with cartooneys is one of the Internet’s oldest jokes; next oldest is claiming to be one. In this case, it happens to be true. Or is he crazy like a…