Archive for April, 2008

oh, homos!

I didn’t know what to blog about today. Partly it’s because I read so much that made me angry; today I saw this bit on the Human Rights Campaign announcing their list of Senate endorsements for 2008, and I remembered: THIS is why single-issue politics, and why mainstream gay activism in general, is so totally [...]

Out of Gas II: The Revenge

Despite Ben Wyskida’s blistering indictment last night, John McCain and Hillary Clinton just will not back down from their insane “gas tax holiday”. Hillary Clinton went a step further yesterday and actually cut an attack ad blasting Barack Obama for his refusal to support what TPM’s David Kurtz is calling the “model of reactive, politically [...]

Out of gas.

Okay so this makes me really mad. Everyone is freaking out because gas prices are going up, meaning that now America is close to paying half of what the rest of the world pays for gas, and to deal with it both John McCain and Hillary Clinton have proposed suspending gas taxes (the federal ones, [...]

Now I know what Florida and Michigan feel like.

Of all the days of the year, today is the hardest day to be a vegan. Today is Free Cone Day at Ben & Jerry’s, or as I like to call it, “National Stirling Gets No Free Ice Cream Today Day”.
Unfortunately for me (and Florida and Michigan while we’re at it) rules are rules and [...]

Top down, metal legs up, that’s the way…

so one of the guiding principles of Pinko is that we’re sex positive and think that you can do your thing whatever that thing might be, but this one is just beyond the pale.

A man in central Ohio is accused of having sex with his picnic table The investigation began when a tipster gave police [...]

Paintball Gets the “Terrorist Enhancement” Treatment

If you often find yourself longing for the halcyon days when paintball was just paintball, you’re not alone. The sport has fallen prey to an international conspiracy of jihadists. Because they used it to train for terror attacks, you can’t use it to let off a little steam on a Saturday afternoon. Unless, [...]

Four (off-peak) minutes to change the world.

In 1999 I joined Working Assets long distance. I did it almost entirely because they sent you two free coupons for Ben & Jerrys with each bill, and who wouldn’t like that? In 2002 I switched to their cellphone service. In the early Wild West days of socially-responsible living, Working Assets was a gamble. It [...]

McCain: Women Want a Hand Up…

Lots has changed since John McCain was a young man. For instance, when he was my age, women weren’t allowed to venture outside of the cave after dark for fear of being attacked by saber tooth tigers. Had he just opened a newspaper in the last 50,000 years, he would have noticed that women are [...]

The only thing, EVER, to survive in Indonesia …

… is the Olympic torch. Indonesia, of course, is a little tiny country where every single fucked up thing that could ever happen, does, including but not limited to tsunamis, earthquakes, oppressive dictators, terrorist attacks, blood thirsty tiger maulings, outbreaks of disease, and death-spewing mud volcanoes. But still, somehow, the goddamned Olympic torch made a [...]

Has anyone actually done this?

I know this seems off topic but I’m looking for someone who actually owns and has attempted to learn something from Darren’s Dance Grooves.

anyone? Also, this made me want to kill myself. That does NOT look like Hillary or Barack. Are these the beer and bowling voters?