Archive for April, 2008

Green Toys

I went yesterday to buy my daughter a tea set. Every little boy needs a tea set, and with careful monitoring, it is sometimes permissible to allow girls to play with them too.
I stopped by my local toy store and was pleased to find a set made from recycled milk jugs. The company, Green Toys, [...]

Can they topple the torch?

So 1PM PST today the Olympic torch starts winding it’s way through San Francisco. Protesters in London and Paris have already disrupted ceremonies there — in one case extinguishing the torch altogether. Can the world’s most swingenist protest town strike a blow for burma and deliver a dropkick for the Dalai Lama? According to the [...]

NYC Recycles - A Pinko Semi-Annual Post-Lenten Investigative Reporting Megapost

Well, it’s the first odd-numbered Monday in April, and in Pinkoland that means it’s time for an Investigative Reporting Megapost! This installation: New York City municipal recycling.
Lately I’ve spent lonely nights wondering: what happens to that bottle of honey-mustard once it’s sputtered its last blob? Does my weekend-long pickled egg binge create unnecessary [...]

Pinko Mag to Mark Penn: Is It My Birthday?!!

Mark Penn, former Hillary Clinton Strategist and our #4 on the top ten list of people we’d like to waterboard, has been shit-canned by the Clinton campaign for moonlighting in Columbia. Don’t worry. He still has his job as CEO of global PR Giant Burson-Marsteller where he helps fight the good fight for sub-prime mortgage [...]

Rob Lowe?

In a clear attempt to divert attention from John McCain calling his wife a trollop and a cunt, Rob Lowe has announced, via Huffington Post natch, that he is being blackmailed for $1.5 million dollars by a former in-home worker (nanny? chef?) who will accuse Lowe and his wife of “a vicious laundry list of [...]

Congestion Pricing Dead: lamelamelamelamelame

Congestion pricing failed this afternoon when Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver emerged from a closed-door meeting to announce that there wouldn’t even be a vote to determine it’s viability. And with that, $354 million in federal grants for public and sustainable transit evaporates So, if you’re one of the eight non-cabbies that lives [...]

McCaingerous drops the c-bomb.

No he didn’t! Salacious words on the straight talk express. Even WE don’t use that word, and we say all kinds of stuff. From a new book out next month, The Real McCain by Cliff Schecter:

Three reporters from Arizona, on the condition of anonymity, also let me in on another incident involving McCain’s intemperateness. In [...]

who warrants “an appreciation?” Not Charlton Heston.

As I’ve grown older and spent more time in activism & politics, I’ve noticed that I have an increasingly strident world view. I really do think there are good people and bad people, and while there are shades of gray I find it pretty inexcusable when someone spends a bulk of their time doing something [...]

R.I.P. Charlton Heston, 10,000 B.C. - 2008

It was unclear at press time if the authorities where able to pry the gun out of Mr. Heston’s cold, dead hands.
Charlton Heston’s death makes John McCain the world’s oldest living batshit-crazy lolpublican
I have a third one, but seriously, a man is dead. What is wrong with you people me?

Update: Ok, fine. The third one [...]

McCaingerous: I voted against MLK before I voted for him.

I moved yesterday, so posts are few and far between, but for those not following the political blogs (what!?) I wanted to arm you with another talking point for your crazy uncle who thinks John McCain is a maverick and/or kind of liberal: McCain voted repeatedly and worked actively against any holiday for Martin Luther [...]