Per aspera

This is the funny that Steve demands.
(via Kung Fu Monkey)

From a CNN transcript, via Atrios:

CORNYN: Well, you know, that’s the problem in America, we’re always having elections.

Dear Republicans,
Please save us from ourselves.
Sincerely,
The Great Unwashed

Because that’ll get the school blown up.
Lara Logan from CBS lays it down about the “Iraq’s not as bad as all this negative coverage would have you believe” crapola that war apologists are using as their new talking point.  My favorite part of the clip: look at her face when Howie Kurtz mentions Laura Ingraham.

Via Ellis, I learn that whale songs have syntax.  That is so beautiful I want to cry.
And yet, you know, add this item to the endless list of abilities and behaviors shown by “animals” that you’d have sworn - just sworn - are special abilities given directly to Adam by Jesus himself, because we humans […]

1. “Where Have You Gone?” Mike Doughty2. “Under Cover of Darkness,” Living Colour3. “Unrelated Thing,” They Might Be Giants4. “Do You Want More?!!!??!” The Roots5. “Ballad of a Comeback Kid,” The New Pornographers6. “Stockholm Syndrome,” Yo La Tengo7. “Clockwork,” Dilated Peoples8. “It’s Summertime,” The Flaming Lips9. “I Confess,” Land of the Loops10. “Barnaby, Hardly Working,” […]

So I’ve been using Mail, the email program that comes with OS X, as my email client lately, hoping that it will be less prone to crash my shit than Thunderbird (by no means have we proven this hypothesis yet).  Just now, the spam filter on Mail decided that Earthlink’s periodic Spam Report email is, […]

Important information for the concerned voter, via Making Light:  Reptilians in Government.
This list was sent anonymously but a lot of the names can
be verified by others in files on this site and others who expose government
corruption, black projects, coverups and aliens. Here are […]

I am totally in love with Neko Case’s new album.
Also, I’ve been pronouncing her name incorrectly all this time, through no fault of my own.  My first instinct upon reading her name back in the day was to pronounce it like Nico.  I was totally right, but was corrected by a certain person of my […]

I just called the MA offices of my two senators to see if they support Russ Feingold’s resolution to censure President Bush. For the record, their responses:
Kennedy: I was told that Sen. Kennedy “hasn’t released an official position on that,” and also some stuff about Sen. Feingold being a leader in pointing out […]

.5) “You Can’t Kill Michael Malloy,” Primus
1) “Star,” The Roots
2) “Stroker Ace,” Lovage
3) “Bus to Beelzebub,” Soul Coughing
4) “Elvis is Dead,” Living Colour
5) “Fierce Flawless,” Ani DiFranco
6) “Welcome,” Land of the Loops
7) “Believe it if You Like,” Sinéad Lohan
8) “Drugs Have Done Good Things,” Bill Hicks
9) “Drunk Sincerity,” Bad Religion
10) “Kansas City,” James Brown
Bonus track: […]

“He has no political capital,” said Tony Fabrizio, a Republican pollster. “Slowly but surely it’s been unraveling. There’s been a direct correlation between the trajectory of his approval numbers and the — I don’t want to call it disloyalty — the independence on the part of the Republicans in Congress.”
The port deal has troubled Republicans […]

Not because it’s porny, or anything, but because you most likely don’t want your coworkers to see you crying.
“Letter to Alex and Chris, Twelve Years in the Future,” by Flea at One Good Thing
(via I Blame the Patriarchy)

It being International Women’s Day, it’s also Blog Against Sexism day.  Sexism’s reached a bit of a high tide in the U.S. lately, so I think it’s pretty important to pay attention, both to the evil shitstains who talk about “saving babies” when what they mean is “controlling uteruses,” and also to the advances (or […]

AP Story:
A team of American-led divers has discovered a new crustacean in the South Pacific that resembles a lobster and is covered with what looks like silky, blond fur, French researchers said Tuesday.
And it’s got no eyes!  It sees by hugging.
(via BoingBoing)

“It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp?” Are you goddamn kidding me? And over Dolly motherfucking Parton, to boot?
And Queen Latifah! The author of “U.N.I.T.Y.,” acting all happy that a song about the despicable fucking occupation of pimping won an Oscar? I realize that the notion of shame must be viewed […]