Archive for May, 2008

Best Comment Ever

A few months ago I wrote a post about the awesome and heavily hair-ironed band Tokio Hotel. Much to my surprise it probably remains the most trafficked Pinko post ever, largely because many thousands of excited fans have Google Alerts set for “Tokio Hotel,” which I am glad to “ping,” as they say. I’ve actually [...]

A Jihad for Love

Quickly, before I head out on this beautiful Memorial Day to meet some friends in the Park: If you live in New York you have a few more days to catch screenings and events around the U.S. launch of the documentary A Jihad for Love which was pretty incredible. It’s opening in June all over. [...]

Does this count as recycling?

My co-worker Jed has a blog called Last Night’s Garbage that features pictures of curbside trash annotated with an eclectic mix of news, short fiction and the occasional top 10 list. The results can be fascinating, and sometimes downright disturbing.
Is it recycling? probably not. Is it addictive to read? absolutely.
So, if you’re tired of the [...]

But wait there’s Florida! And Michigan! And more super-delegates! And … oh fuck it just shoot him.

Okay this is really too much. Hillary Clinton, today, the emphasis is mine:
“My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it.”
Just a suggestion but Barack [...]

John McCain is like, SO healthy.

So some of 437-year old John McCain’s medical records came out today. The good news from his doctor …
“I do not see any worrisome lesions”
She doesn’t really comment on the non-worrisome lesions, or on the elusive and very rare special-sexy-lesions, but that just about clears up any debate about McCain’s health in our minds, yes?  [...]

Why is the popular vote so unpopular?

Hillary Clinton wants you to know that she has won the popular vote. She has even gone as fas as to evoke Al Gore by saying that we Democrats should not allow an election to be snatched away from the candidate who has won the popular vote. This would be a provocative argument if it [...]

TSA - Marketing Bribery since 2005

Sometimes, bribery is the only way to make things work. In nations where the systems put in place to manage and govern are hopelessly complicated, corrupt, or broken, a well-placed bribe circumvents what would otherwise be a painful or impossible process.
Since mid-2005, the TSA has been institutionalizing this process by marketing it as a product: [...]

The White Working Class.

Lost in all the coverage last night about how shocking it is that 33% of Hillary’s supporters in Kentucky would support John McCain in the Fall instead of Obama is the fact that, in 2004, 42% of white working class Democrats voted for George Bush over John Kerry. Same thing in 2000, give or take [...]

BREAKING: John Cusack’s War Inc. Premiere Marred by Racist Looting!

So last night was an advance screening at the New York Film Academy of John Cusack’s new film on Blackwater war privatization and profiteering, War Inc., starring fucking Hillary Duff HOW GREAT IS THAT!? Anyway, things were going smoothly for maybe like, a minute when the sound stopped synching up with the film, followed [...]

You got fries with that shake?

Zen Burger
465 Lexington Ave,
New York, NY
(212) 834-4640
This years Veggie Pride Parade had anthropomorphic broccoli, anthropomorphic peas and carrots, and anthropomorphic farm animals. It even had a giant meat eater’s colon on sticks. Giving voice to the voiceless and all that…
One particular stand out, the one that had me schlepping all the way to Lexington [...]