March 2010
These are signs seen primarily at Tea Party Protests.
They all feature “creative” spelling or grammar.
This new dialect of the English language shall be known as “Teabonics.”
It’s just about the best outcome possible, given the overt victimization of a high school student by the adults in charge of her education. After the Itawamba Agricultural High School in Mississippi canceled the prom rather than let Constance McMillen and her girlfriend attend together, a federal court called out officials of the Itawamba County School District as a bunch of bigots in front of a national audience, pointedly affirming McMillen’s claim that her First Amendment rights had been violated.
New Hampshire State Rep. Nick Levasseur has apologized for saying, “Anime is a prime example of why two nukes just wasn’t enough,” on Facebook.
The Manchester Democrat quickly backpedaled. “I would like to deeply apologize for the insensitivity of this post. It was a poorly thought out comment, posted jest on my private Facebook page,” Levasseur said in a statement.
Apparently not private enough, dumbass.
Since Monday, a lot has been said about “what the new health care bill means for you.” There have been charts and graphs, wingnut clarion calls, and plenty of bulleted points from the press wire (*I love the existence of Reuter’s ominous FACTBOX*) clarifying, detailing, sorting, confirming, confusing, and muddling what’s at stake in this bill.
Fortunately for those of us in the soft geek underbelly of the Internet, io9’s Charlie Jane Anders is on the case and has written this brilliant, informative, and remarkably clarifying shake down of what the health care bill really means by channeling our collective cultural dystopian visions and turning extremist fear-mongering on its head.
Take that, mainstream media.
(via missspite)
You KNEW that shit wasn’t good for you.
Than a Bike Ninja. It’s just not a generally successful survival strategy.
Late-night bike ride kills teen AP - SEYMOUR – Police say a pickup truck hit two teens riding double on a bicycle in the middle of the night on a southern Indiana highway, killing one boy and critically injuring the other. Police say the boys were riding in the middle of the southbound lane of U.S. 31 a couple of miles from Seymour when they were hit about 2 a.m. Sunday.
More accurately, riding double in complete darkness on a highway at night (with no bike lighting at all, apparently; a reasonable assumption given the location I suppose, but of course the story doesn’t mention it) will get you killed. And no styrofoam hat has yet been engineered that will mitigate a highway-speed impact, but I’m still surprised they didn’t bother to mention that at least.
And later, the second boy died in hospital.
(from my oft-neglected blog.)
There’s a theory that interprets Ed, Edd and Eddy’s entire cast of kids as all being dead and living in a purgatory of an eternal childhood cycle (originally an eternal summer, but then they started going to school), thus the complete lack of any adult agents in the purgatory. There are a number of explanations for their deaths, ranging from an explosion due to a gas-leak in the neighborhood to apocalyptic ones such as nuclear explosion or the spread of a deadly disease that killed most of middle-America. Another theory suggests that the kids in the Cul-de-Sac are dead children from the neighborhood, each from different times (Johnny and Rolf from the 40’s, Kevin from the 90’s, Naz from the 60’s, Jimmy from the 00’s, and so on).
I fucking love this guy, I truly wish I was as insane as he is.
Lady Gaga crazy Illuminati conspiracies, best insanity ever