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Archive for the 'Hero' Category
12th Apr, 2007
Goodbye, Mr. Vonnegut
1st May, 2006
My new hero
Holy. Freakin’. Cow.
Stephen Colbert spoke at the White House Correspondents dinner and satiracly lambasted the press and the Bush administration while standing ten feet away from Bush and his wife. Huffington Post has an interesting recap here. Blog critics has a good overview as well.
Video here. YouTube clips here (they have less streaming problems). Part 2, Part 3
Transcript here. I could sit here and type out highlights, but you should really go read them for yourself.
An interesting side-story is that the New York Times didn’t mention Stephen Colbert in their coverage of the event at all. Interesting. (There are links to AP and Reuters stories that downplay Colbert in the huffington post link above as well.)
I read an editorial report at Fox News that said he was a big meanie.
I’m not a huge fan of Colbert’s show. It really is heavy-handed, but the fact that he actually said the things he said in front of Bush and key members of the government makes me a devoted fan. Bravo!
Do yourself a favor and at least go read the transcript.
Update:
http://thankyoustephencolbert.org
Here’s a good torrent of the whole speech.
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25th Oct, 2005
R.I.P.
Rosa Parks dies in her sleep at the age of 92
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20th Oct, 2005
* wipes away a tear *
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2nd Aug, 2005
Woo hoo!
From the article:
A federal judge struck down a move by the Bush administration to ease logging restrictions in the Northwest, saying the government failed to consider the effect on rare plants and animals.
WOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
You go, Marsha Pechman!
Take that, environmentally-insensitive Bush administration!
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27th Jul, 2005
Kimberly says: Perhaps the best nickname for Karl Rove ever!
Apparently, Gary Trudeau is catching some flack over a nickname he gave to “Hot” Karl Rove, and some newspapers that run the daily strip are either editing or pulling yesterday’s and today’s strips altogether.
The nickname…?
Turd Blossom.
That’s AWESOME!
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22nd Jul, 2005
Doggie daycamp
10th Mar, 2005
BOOO-YAH!
21st Oct, 2004
Mrs. Superman wants you to vote for Kerry
At a rally today in Ohio, Dana Reeve, widow of Christopher Reeve, annouced her support for John Kerry. “My inclination would be to remain private for a good long while. But I came here today in support of John Kerry because this is so important. This is what Chris wanted.”
Kerry knew the Reeve for about 15 years through family and activist connections. Reeve left him a long telephone message the day before he died, thanking him for campaigning on behalf of medical research.
Go Kerry.
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12th Jul, 2004
Mimi, my hero
“Okay. So I have a little problem with impulse control today, and there was no one on my train this morning, and I noticed these weird advertising posters for McDonald’s. They feature a slightly nauseating (maybe only to me, post-tequila) close-up of a salad, and they say THREE WORDS: NORTH AVENUE BEACH. (There is also a version that says THREE WORDS: SOUTH SHORE BEACH. In the spirit of bipartisan unity, I guess.) When I first saw these ads it took me a minute to get their point—I was staring and staring and thinking That’s not a beach it’s a salad and other dumb, tequila-poisoned thoughts—until I finally saw the oblique advertising strategy, which I think goes something like this: you’re fat; we decree that beachwear requires you not to be fat; eat salad so as not to be so fat; because we said so.
Luckily I had my Sharpie and my poor impulse control, so since there was no one watching I stood on the seats to modify one of these posters. So if you are riding the Red Line and see the McDonald’s ads that say THREE WORDS: FASCIST BEAUTY STANDARDS, yeah that was me. You’re welcome. Get your own Sharpie, think of your own three words, and join in the fun!”
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7th Apr, 2004
Yay Inglewood!
They did it! They voted against the Wal-Mart expansion!
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This is AWESOME!
From the news post:
The band has decided to make a statement for its fans and for music consumers in general and is releasing the album including a bonus DVD with 2 blank CD-Rs which have the same label as the CD itself. Alexx Wesselsky (singer and head of the group): “We are of the opinion that the music buyers are criminalized enough and have been made responsible for the wretched state in the music industry. We are giving them the chance to make 2 legal copies for private use with ‘official blanks’. It can’t always be that the end users have to take the blame for something that international corporations have arranged with their artist-burning methods.” Eisbrecher’s record label ZYX Music supports this action and will deliver the first 5000 albums of the group with 2 blanks each.
These guys rock.
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30th Jan, 2004
For Fishstick:
10th Dec, 2003
Jump back, I wanna kiss myself
GOOD GAWD!
Meet our new Secretary of Soul and Foreign Minister of Funk, and the hardest working man in show business!
MR. JAMES BROWN!
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11th Nov, 2003
Here’s an interesting slant…
on the GOP’s fear based agenda. Scroll down a bit to get to the politics, I promise it’s there.
Heh.
Probably NSFW. Especially if you work where I do.
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