Archive for June 2005

“The Liberals’ controversial Bill C-38, titled Law on Civil Marriage, passes a final reading in the House of Commons, sailing through in a 158-133 vote. Supported by most members of the Liberal party, the Bloc Québécois and the NDP, the vote makes Canada the third country in the world, after the Netherlands and Belgium, to officially recognize same-sex marriage.”

hard to argue this one.

A dozen antiwar activists from Mendocino County took their tops off in San Francisco’s Union Square shopping district Thursday, using what they said was their best weapon to get the public’s attention.
The topless protest drew gawks and stares from passersby, some of whom couldn’t believe what they were seeing.
Members of the […]

Watch this funny spot.

Source: Circuits.

All of your adorable Finding Nemo friends are back in this summer blockbuster with a twist. This time, Nemo is caught in a commercial fishing boat net (seems he’s put on a few pounds, couldn’t fit through the holes, and mistakenly told all the other fish to swim up), and ends up headed for the menu of the snack bar at Long Beach, California’s Aquarium of the Pacific.

Arianna completely nails a problem that no one I know of has so clearly articulated, and which contributes greatly to Bush’s continued success despite his many shortcomings: the media and much of the American public have become nearly enamored of the sheer audacity and success of the Rove political modus operandi.

It’s easy to think of fish as swimming vegetables but of all the places in the country where fish should get a fair shake it’s an aquarium,” said Karin Robertson, manager of the Fish Empathy Project for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Kidding aside, this is one of the most bizarre coincidences I’ve ever come across. Of course, you read all the time about old couples, wherein when one of them dies, then the spouse dies soon after, seemingly of either a broken heart or a determination to join their companion in the afterlife.

Could it be that Tigger and Piglet were closer than any of us ever thought? How sad is it that they had to hide their love for one another all these years? Why didn’t they just go to Canada?

Since my creative well is dry this morning, I invited, well I didn’t actually invite him, don’t know him in fact, but I saw an episode of his show once, and I heard that the character George on Seinfeld was based on him…

Man of the Fear

karl rove is a vile, anti-american hate monger.
but he’s a brilliant vile, anti-american hate monger.
while democrats are busy jumping up and down over rove’s recent remarks (”liberals love terrorists and want to kill our troops.”), once again they’re taking their eye off the ball.
free advice, democrats: shut the hell up about rove.
rove […]

hey, i really like your house. you’ve obviously gone to a lot of effort and expense to make it a home you’re proud of.
nice combination of aesthetics and functionality. subtle but noticeable attention to feng shui.
you should really be proud.
now get the fuck out.
The Supreme Court ruled today, in one of its most closely watched […]

[Sing-song voice]: Nike’s getting sued, Nike’s getting sued.
Okay, they’re not getting sued yet, but you tell me. Will they?

Fucking morons probably didn’t even know their graphics/marketing division had done this, but the twits are running an ad campaign that blatantly rips off an antiestablishment skateboarder record from 1984.
Minor Threat, right, was the album by […]

Despite my fervent hopes, as well as crossed fingers, knocks on wood, and prayers to any deity that happened to be paying attention (apparently numbering exactly zero, though I did not try human sacrifice, come to think of it), Kate, has tagged me for the book “meme”.

$11 billion! $11 billion! $11 billion!
It will cost more than $11 billion to pay for the 14-mile monorail Green Line project and the debt to finance it, according to documents made public yesterday.
That’s more than triple what Sound Transit will pay for construction and debt service for its 14-mile light rail line from downtown Seattle […]

It’s true… Absolute power corrupts absolutely.

an american president of some stature once observed that a house divided against itself cannot stand.
another american president of less renown once said he was a uniter, not a divider.
one was right, the other was tragically mistaken.
today america finds itself deeply split on so many important matters that it’s hard to reconcile the whole. that […]

the world is a dangerous place.
and sometimes you’re better off being thrown to the lions than living among your own people.
A 12-year-old girl who was abducted and beaten by men trying to force her into a marriage was found being guarded by three lions who apparently had chased off her captors, a policeman said Tuesday.
The […]

Yesterday, the following comment was posted in “response” to John’s piece about the Chinese Episode III bootleg.
Hello, I’m Jumbo, proprietor of the original Flossblog and I wanted to say hi to a fellow flossblogger. It looks like you’re from the NW. I flossblog from Burnside in PDX.
While we here at Transcendental Floss are normally very […]