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The Lower East Side has a Pathmark. That Pathmark might be closing down to make room for some condos. Now normally, Pathmark would be one of the first things people would try to keep out of their neighborhood. In New York City, it’s just not cool to shop at a supermarket. [...]

What happened to all that “writer solidarity” and such? Guess all that strongarming isn’t turning out so well…

An unfair labor practices complaint filed against Hollywood studios is a bid to force them back to the negotiating table with striking writers, guild leaders said.

But a studio alliance responded with disdain to the claim it illegally [...]

I’m sure you remember when I posted this video…

Apparently, Stew Leonard’s is getting into the vegetarian genocide act…

Oh the irony of feeding a bunch of skinny prematurely-aged hippies with bad hair to a cow just so I can have a better steak…

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Dateline: August 2004, New York City

People are outraged that the Republicans are coming to NYC to hold their annual convention. Protestors from around the country, none of whom have any real jobs, come from near and far to smash windows, tip cars, and intimidate convention goers all in the name of preserving the [...]

Consumer Reports is unimpressed with the voice quality of the iPhone.

From their blog:

In voice-quality tests, the iPhone’s performance has been undistinguished at best. Quality when listening to a call was fair. Calls from the iPhone heard on another phone were good in quality. By comparison, among the AT&T-compatible smartphones in our current Ratings (available to [...]

And this time it’s the resident genius of the Senate, Joe Biden…

DES MOINES — Joseph Biden, the Delaware Democrat running for president, is a man of strong opinions. During a campaign event in a Des Moines backyard today, Mr. Biden had some choice words for President Bush and two of the Republicans running for the [...]

Man, it doesn’t take much to get the New York tabloids to preach from the mountain.

Take for instance this story yesterday.

June 25, 2007 — A Brooklyn mother and father got the shock of their lives when school officials informed them their brilliant 11-year-old girl was denied admission to an elite public school – solely because [...]

The ACLU has bent over backwards to justify spending $25,000 worth of public funds on footbaths for Muslims at the University of Michigan in Dearborn. I love how the ACLU can spin the shit out of this stuff with a straight face:

Kary Moss, director of the Detroit branch of the ACLU, said its review [...]

Ironic doesn’t even begin to describe this one, folks…

Dan Rather: “You know, she tried to change networks, which is always difficult and change the programs at the same time. They’ve done all of the usual things. They changed the set. They changed the executive producers. They changed the graphics person, lately, forced out a guy [...]

While the lazy bastard scientists in the US with bloodlust for embryos wring their hands over not being able to get federal cooch for their little escapades, yet another scientist in another part of the world has made a stem cell advancement that doesn’t involve the destruction of embryos.

Research reported this week by three different [...]

Well, lately it seems like the right is all a twitter over the immigration bill, but some right-wingers are still all about Bush and what he says goes and we need to support him because of 9/11 and the conservative movement will suffer from a big spending debt-inducing fuck up being criticized.

DJ Drummond over at [...]

So it’s a problem if you call a black chick a nappy-headed ho. It’s okay if you call her an Uncle Tom. Of course both are okay if you’re black, a liberal, or both, but whatever.

Note to idiots: I do not have a problem with Kathy Griffin demonstrating her stupidity; I’m only [...]

Yep… Hurricane season is upon us again…

With the 2007 Atlantic hurricane season a few hours away, researcher William Gray released his newest forecast Thursday still showing an expectation for 17 named storms and nine hurricanes, five of them intense.

Gray, based at Colorado State University, described it as a very active season. He said there [...]

Reuters: Straight pub wins right to ban gays

An Australian hotel catering for hetrosexuals has won the right to ban homosexuals from its bars so as to provide a comfortable venue for straight men not wanting to associate with homosexuals.

In what is believed to be a first for [...]

Nancy Pelosi has hired a guy who’s ethics are in question…

Bob Brady. He is most well-known at present for coming in third in the Philadelphia Mayoral primary last week and making a complete fool of himself when he failed to report his pension on his nominating petitions.

More disgusting, however, is Brady’s close ties to the [...]

Cloaking is the act of sending different data to search engine crawlers than to users of a page. You can usually see cloaking in action on shady sites that have a bunch of keywords at the bottom of a page that are the same color as the background text. In the end, those [...]

Tens of thousands of protesters on Saturday denounced President Hugo Chavez’s plans to close an opposition television channel, accusing their leader of maiming Venezuelan democracy as he forges a socialist state.

Chavez says RCTV, the country’s oldest private broadcaster, supported a bungled coup against him in 2002. He has had a long-running battle with opposition television [...]

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Former President Carter says President Bush’s administration is “the worst in history” in international relations, taking aim at the White House’s policy of pre-emptive war and its Middle East diplomacy.

The criticism from Carter, which a biographer says is unprecedented for the 39th president, also took aim at Bush’s environmental policies [...]

John Murtha (D-Pa. who also happened to serve in Vietnam in case you didn’t know) went guano loco in the House, and now he may have to pay for it.

Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.) threatened to deny any further spending projects to a Republican who challenged him over an earmark last week, the GOP is [...]

A senior lobbyist at the National Association of Manufacturers nominated by President Bush to lead the Consumer Product Safety Commission will receive a $150,000 departing payment from the association when he takes his new government job, which involves enforcing consumer laws against members of the association.

It doesn’t really get any better than that, does it?

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