The Washington Post opines that the red and blue states are rapidly becoming purple states — in effect, “The once-hardy species of conservative Democrats — so numerous in the 1980s they had a name, ‘Reagan Democrats’ — is now on the endangered list, along with the liberal ‘Rockefeller Republicans.'” Ideological divisions are now in line with party divisions.
A message from Pat Robertson
A message from Pat Robertson and the “Vote No on Jesus” campaign.
“Jesus’ environmental advocacy resembles that of your common, everyday hippy: He has criticized our reliance on fossil fuels and insists that businesses adopt unfair and impractical pollution prevention measures. He also goes barefoot to public events and has yet to shower or shave as far as I can tell. Messiah or not, there is no room for grungy tree-huggers in the White House.”
– Pat Robertson’s “Vote No on Jesus” campaign, from McSweeney’s
The Memory Hole
Congress passes a “doomsday” bill, which calls for special elections within 45 days if 100 or more members of Congress were killed, deciding the issue of continuity first brought up during the Cold War.
The Memory Hole contains hundreds of photos released from Freedom of Information Act retrievals, including those of soldiers’ coffins.
Or is advertising telling us to think that?
Christian fundamentalists are driving Bush’s Middle East policy, writes The Guardian.
And just discovered: Commercial Alert and the Organic Consumers Association report that “Consumers Are Fed Up with Corporate Advertising & Manipulation”.
Plan of Attack
Bob Woodward’s new book Plan of Attack follows in a long line of recent tell-all accounts of the months leading up to the second Iraq war, bringing new light to Bush’s single-mindedness
“You know you’re going to be owning this place?”
– Colin Powell to George Bush, regarding the consequences of invading Iraq
Windows Mixed Edition
I used to find Microsoft’s Windows sound sets annoying, until a clever Flash animation remixed them.
Subservient chicken
Burger King has the subservient chicken. I much prefer the subservient chicken *hawk*.
I wish I had thought of this: a website that collects writings from bathroom stalls.
E in WWE Enron?
Jeffrey Skilling of Enron in a drunken brawl. And then two California runaways diguised as rural Canadians were found — what’s strange is one of them is called Tom Green, but it’s not the comedian.
Offshoring is bringing doubters of its effectiveness for a company’s bottom line, which complain about a lack of available programmers. Not so, says Fast Company.
Democrats are better for the economy, and Wall St should take note, says the Christian Science Monitor.
MSNBC opines that the housing market is about to go “Pop!”, if interest rates start rising and people stop refinancing.
Marx in Soho
I read Howard Zinn’s “Marx in Soho” during my last semester, and was surprised to find out that Seattle’s Asian Art Museum will be performing the play at the end of May.
NASCAR ballet
After having been to the Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Charlotte, NC, last month, I’m comforted by a bold theatre company who dares to make the NASCAR Ballet.
What do the faceless avatars in videogames think about when you’re not asking them to frag opponents? Red vs Blue ponders this ethereal question.