Taibbi

I’ve really been enjoying Matt Taibbi’s pieces whenever they pop up at Rollingstone. Check out this great quote from this piece:

“The Moral Majority Christians and the supply-side neocons always represented two of the worst and most vile impulses in the American character — mass, willful ignorance and total, shameless greed. In one wing of the ruling-party mansion they housed preachers who transformed the religion of “turn the other cheek” and “go, give away all your possessions to the poor” into a “Christianity” that celebrated shock-and-awe bombing and assault-rifle ownership and decried the progressive income tax as unfair to the propertied class. In the other wing they housed “conservatives” who turned the party of limited government into a giant snooping apparatus, one that borrowed trillions against the future earnings of ordinary taxpayers and sacrificed thousands of lives to snatch a few Middle Eastern oil wells for companies that were rich as hell to begin with.”

He’s got a great voice. And his “Jesus Made Me Puke” piece was hilarious.

The genus is Yucca, the genre is… um… Irish monster pop?

I originally posted this on The FILTER last year under the heading of “Linnaean Discography”. Always thought it was funny, but wasn’t sure if anyone else did.

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Screw you.

The changing face of fat America

We know North Americans are fat, but this awesome animation shows where people in the United States they’ve been getting fatter over the last 23 years. 

Watch out Colorado, they’re coming for you!

I’m glad I’m not a cookie.

Estelle Getty, 1923 – 2008

“Picture it: Sicily, 1912.”

Outside of Golden Girls (and its talk-about-an-earworm theme song), I only really remember her from this Stallone epic. More on her death here. Really, this is just an excuse to tag something “sexy grandma” again, given how much traffic that term and, as a consequence, this post receive.

Seriously though: if you came to our corner of the universe searching “sexy grandma”, I’m sorry to disappoint. But since you’re here, why not take a look around? You might like some of our pieces, like this one which is about podiatry (kind of).

Wanting some foonie!

Do you know how much money the government of Canada has saved since it switched from the one dollar bill to the almighty loonie and the two dollar bill to the toonie? Half a billion dollars! (This report even suggests that that amount was saved in the first five years of the loonie’s existence alone.) Not only that, but it seems that the coins can last twenty years longer than the folding money. Awesome.

What are the reasons for not going forward with this? Are you a Sir Wilfred Laurier fan (and what’s not to like about a guy who threatened promised that the 20th century would belong to Canada)? I’ve got no beef with slapping his visage on the foonie (would definitely be better than this idea). You like the bit on the $5 bill about living at “the school, the church and the skating rink”? Get your own copy of Carrier’s “The Hockey Sweater” here. You think the introduction of this new coin will simply give you too much change to handle? Jesus - go buy some cargo shorts and for God’s sake man up!

Hell, not only could the foonie become a new badge of honour for us, it would also potentially create additional opportunities to spy on our neighbours. You on board now? Good. Next, we’ll work on ditching the penny.

Woohoo! Nanaimo named Earth Capital!

Well, Google Earth anyways. See here.

I’m going to check if they’ve got The Bastion in all its glory.

UPDATE: Well, I saw me some Bastion. Wasn’t really 3D though. Maybe you need special glasses.

Damn you Arcade Fire!

Pompus bastards.  Such a good song.