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Afghanistan April 2011 @ The Big Picture
Published May 7, 2011 news , photos 1 CommentTags: Afghanistan, April, Boston Globe, photos, the big picture, USA
Confusion of Feelings & Death of Osama bin Laden
Published May 4, 2011 asides , blogs , news , politics-social-racism 1 CommentTags: death, feelings, Middle East, OBL, Osama Bin Laden, Pakistan, politics, USA, war on terror
Whatever sort of emotional response I may have had on hearing the news that Osama bin Laden had been killed by U.S. forces was immediately confused by everyone else’s response.
Jessa Crispin @ The Smart Set
My thoughts exactly.
Mark Singer on Trump
Published May 2, 2011 asides , blogs , finance , news 1 CommentTags: donald trump, egomaniac, lunacy, mark singer, narcissism, narcissistic personality disorder
Marc Singer has a good article about Trump in the New Yorker. Ever since I became aware of his bubbling birtherism, he’s totally lost any respect that I had for him.
Donald Trump The Birther Over at NYT & Gail Collins
Published April 9, 2011 blogs , news , politics-social-racism Leave a CommentTags: birther, Donal Trump, idiocy, lunacy, news, racism, republican, social
I don’t know what’s going on with Donald Trump, but he’s become a birther and he’s proud of it. Egomania breeds idiocy.
Vote for Donald Trump, the man who can make Bill O’Reilly look like the most sensible guy in the room.
Trump’s main argument for why he should be taken seriously as a presidential contender is his business success. Has Obama ever hosted a long-running reality series? Owned a bankruptcy-bound chain of casinos? Put his name on a flock of really unattractive high-rise apartment buildings? No!
“Celebrity Apprentice” is widely regarded as terrible and cheesy programming, but, actually, it has its moments. I recently saw an episode in which a former top model had a serious discussion with a fellow competitor about whether this was the 20th century or the 21st. You can’t get stuff like that on “Mad Men.”
To establish his birther creds, this week Trump produced his own birth certificate, after one failed attempt in which he came up with a document that was too weak to qualify for a passport. By the time he worked things out, we had an entire news cycle devoted to Donald Trump having been born in New York.
Reception of the French National Team In France
Published July 4, 2010 asides , news , politics-social-racism Leave a CommentTags: asides, football, France, NYT, quotes, soccer, social, sports, world cup
On Thursday, as France’s national soccer team returned home after its abject failure at the World Cup in South Africa, and were met by riot police sent to protect them from their fans, haters of the team, and the country, continued to heap scorn on the squad now blamed for sullying the nation’s honor.
Another noted simply: “When the team wins, the players are French. When it loses, they are Africans with French citizenship.”
Chatroulette’s Creator Is Revealed
Published February 14, 2010 asides , news , politics-social-racism , technology Leave a CommentTags: asides, chat, chatroulette, news, social, technology, webcam
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